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I'm not really sure what benefit you get out of harping on a developer you will likely never meet or interact with in a third party forum, but power to you.

Nobody really cares about your opinion on him or a monthly subscription; he explicitly said it's not going to happen and at the end of the day that's his decision to make, not yours.

He doesn't even need to give a reason for shutting down. It's his personal project to manage and he's the only one who's ever worked on it.

It's also clear you haven't read the article, because he explicitly calls out a bunch of criticisms you have of him directly.

> Isn't this your fault for building a service reliant on someone else?

> To a certain extent, yes. However, I was assured this year by Reddit not even that long ago that no changes were planned to be made to the API Apollo uses, and I've made decisions about how to monetize my business based on what Reddit has said.

> > January 26, 2023 Reddit: "So I would expect no change, certainly not in the short to medium term. And we're talking like order of years."

> Another portion of the call:

> > January 26, 2023 Reddit: "There's not gonna be any change on it. There's no plans to, there's no plans to touch it right now in 2023. Me: "Fair enough." Reddit: "And if we do touch it, we're going to be improving it in some way."

> Your initial post in April sounded quite optimistic. Are you dumb?

> In hindsight, kinda yeah. Many of the other developers and folks I talked to were much less optimistic than I was, but I legitimately had great interactions with Reddit for many years prior to last week (they were kind, communicative, gave me heads up of changes), so when they said they were aiming to have pricing that would be fair and based in reality, I honestly believed them. That was foolish of me in hindsight, and maybe could have had a different outcome if I was more aggressive in the beginning. Sorry. /canadian

> (And to be clear, they did indeed say this. They used the word "substantive" and I wanted to make sure we had the same definition of something "having a firm basis in reality and therefore important, meaningful, or considerable")

> > Reddit: "That's exactly right. And I think, thankfully, the word is exactly the right one. It's going to have a firm basis in reality. I also just looked it up. We're going to try to be as transparent as we can."
Thanks! That's helpful to hear and goes along with what I've been thinking about myself.

It seems to me that many ADHDers work better with a few intense focused periods / days per week with more off days. Unfortunately in an office setting its almost impossible to achieve.

I'm looking forward to (hopefully) being able to do more fun things on off days than spending so much energy trying to look or be productive in an office!
I don't understand, what is the threat on Christian's part? His project is being killed, that's not a threat but something that is actually happening. He suggests that they pay him a small fraction of what he has cost them to shut down without compromising the reddit API as a whole. What's the threat, that he keeps operating? That's not an option, they are FORCING him to shut down.
There's an awful lot of languages with an .fe code file extension, aren't there:

https://ferite.sourceforge.net/
Reddit’s censorship of r/the_donald was a huge moment in the splintering of political discourse into disconnected silos. It used to be you could go to the front page of Reddit and see what each side of American politics was pushing that day. People on both the left and right would be confronted with news that otherwise they might not see in their personal echo chambers. That all died when spez and co first “quarantined” (ironic jargon choice) then ultimately killed T_D. Truly a sad chain of events.
PS. T_D still lives at patriots.win fwiw.
Which pixels need to be darkened to shade off an object depends on the distance to that object, and will also block the light coming from other objects at other distances. It's very inconvenient.
Apollo is shutting down too. I will probably continue to use Reddit, but exclusively on browser where I can block their ads and scripts. The moment they shut down old.reddit then I am gone for good.
If someone's seriously working on this, I would be happy to help out and build the mobile apps around it.

Imagine how cool, useful, and joyful this tech would be to most people.
Frankly I'm surprised they didn't nip this in the bud years ago. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess.
Absolutely, but it’s not even embedding that I had in mind. I want to be able to produce fully statically linked binaries, because in my experience that is the only truly portable binary solution on Linux. It’s a trade off for sure, but it’s something I’ve found useful for running on e.g. Raspberry Pi.

For SBCL, the two main approaches I’ve seen are: a) use a patched version of SBCL that is statically linked or b) build against an old glibc and hope for the best (which sadly doesn’t work on my musl libc-based distribution). I guess the third approach is distribute source and compile on the device—this is what I’m actually doing, but it seems a little silly to recompile every time, even if it’s the same architecture.

And keep in mind this is just my wishlist of functionality. It’s not necessary and I don’t expect it, but it would be really convenient.
Yeah, Reddit needs to majorly up their game too. You strong arm your major customers right out of the gate. What a loss for both sides. You want the guy to pay $20 million and you just give him a call on the phone. Total amateur hour.

This should have gone like, "Hey, in a few months we're rolling this out and wanted to give you a heads up so you know before anyone else, since you're a major API user. We wanted to offer you a grace period and special pricing. When's a good time to chat we'll fly out.". Fly the sales team over to where he lives, wine and dine him, etc. This is what sales people do all day long for deals that are like $250k+. For deals that are $20 million a year you'll have all parts of the company bending over backwards trying to win that.

This is all just my opinion based on what I've read so far.
I'm sorry but how exactly is it being evil to shut down 3rd party clients that use your content and your bandwidth to make (huge amounts of) money off of you?

Reddit owes absolutely nothing to those developers. This guy has to reimburse 250K of subscriptions, meaning he made millions, if not tens of millions, off of exploiting the API while not displaying Reddit's ads.

Poor Apollo developer, he's going to have to wipe his tears with Benjamins and blow his nose with his silk disposable tissue.
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Do we have virtual developers yet?
Not only does Steve Huffman need to step down and quit this whole business, the entire team of senior management at Reddit needs to just get away as far as they can from managing anything larger than a lemon stand. Impossibly stupid way of running things.

Edit: Jesus Christ, that guy on the other end of the phone has just completely destroyed himself in the world of business by lying about the conversation he had with the Apollo developer: https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...
Is that official, or just an assumption?
Considering some of the bad hiring decisions they have made in the past, I'm guessing not that great.
Related threads:

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- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35286544 "Framework Laptop 16"
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I had the opportunity to work on this. I let my son try the demo last week. Hours afterward at dinner I asked him to explain binary to my wife.

"Mom, imagine you have the number 101 in binary. The first 1 is the fours spot, so you have 4. There's none in the twos spot. and 1 in the ones spot. So that means you have 5."

Two days later he came into my office and asked if he could do more tutor.

That's a huge win in my book!
Sooner or later we'll catch them on a doorbell camera right?

Or maybe they'll just sophisticated enough to be able to auto remove themselves from digital recordings similar to how we have AI to remove people in the background of family photos.
It's totally unreasonable to expect you to make changes in 30 days. Consider app review time, that might not even be possible.

After you shutdown, can you turn Apollo into a site-specific browser? Like request reddit html, write a custom transformer to make it less bad, render with a safari webview, and push nav changes as views on the stack?
Would love to see some info on minority protections.

E.g. establishing a business with two other founders, who were previously in another business relationship and have a greater bond.
> I think a valid criticism is that it would still be good value at, say, 99 euros, or whatever

At 99€ it would have massively lower user numbers. It's already to a large degree a commuter ticket at 49€ - at 99€ alternative tickets would be the better choice for many.
Because I'm not so sure that it's true. Reddit isn't massively profitable but it also doesn't have to lose a ton of money. IIRC they were able to run a much tighter ship and operate off of just Reddit Gold and ads for at least a decade before they started this recent hypergrowth phase
Great question. We have a deletion endpoint that allows sessions (think users) to be deleted. All memory artifacts are timestamped, and we run soft-deletes with deleted_at timestamps. This allows enterprises to execute retention strategies (keep all records for X months) and hard deletes / expungement at scale set by policy (all soft deletes must be expunged within 48 hours of a request).

One of the benefits of using Postgres + pgvector, is it is much easier to delete records from a vector index versus using a vector database or Redis. While Redis has ttls for objects, there isn't an easy way to remove data from a vector index.
"while also outputting enough power to handle the Graphics Module with a discrete GPU"

Oh? This is news to me. Will it have an nVidia graphics card?
As he should … because he is the one submitting the filings, not ChatGPT.
The anti-federation argument has always been that centralized entities have the resources to make a better product. And if that's true, then Apollo is the exception to the rule. Reddit has a team with dozens of engineers, while Apollo has one developer with some part time help. So why is Apollo so much better than the official app?

What the pro-centralization argument misses is that centralized apps also have incentive to monetize their app, and monetization features can harm quality. But in the case of Reddit I'm not sure it's only monetization which has ruined the first-party user experience. The engineering quality is just bad.
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Only skimmed through the article, it seems -AI from the title would be an old story?

Also, that huge 4.7MB image in the head of the article...
Right now, I would only pay for a subscription if there was a way for reddit to get none of the money.
Great ! I am also excited to share ERDTOOL built in this space - https://erdtool.com ...
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- Supports Postgresql and MySQL (mysql part is new homepage hasn't been updated to reflect that)
Building it solo.
I hope this will also interest the tech community
> The comment I was responding to was saying they don't want to see ads,

I never said any such thing about ads.

I mean, I'd rather not, but that wasn't even part of the discussion.
Apollo should launch its own backend IMO, with a usable old.reddit style web interface and API access to other clients
> I have no idea what the actual numbers are, this is just theoretical.

The issue is that the actual numbers are closer to 2,000%, not 80%. [0]

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
nice docsis 4.0 overview https://dgtlinfra.com/docsis-4-0-next-generation-cable/
Hey man, if gas is expensive you vote for the other guy. Democracy can be evil like that.
It also opened the door for a more premium non-Reddit app that charges monthly and directly competes with Reddit. From everything I've seen so far there might be enough of the existing Reddit community who are upset enough with the recent direction to make that leap viable and if the reported figures are accurate then the finances might also work if enough people jump ship to establish a new community.
I would cautiously advise to spend time with a lot of the stores learning about their problems before building that. For it not to be duplicate, or added work for a small shop, you might need to take over all the inputs and outputs of their inventory/pricing, not just for the online portion.
>And it would have been a deal: 6 months of opportunity cost upfront to then turn into real profit. Instead they are permanently lose the [possibly] majority of that opportunity when those users lose access to Reddit.

I dont think that is accurate. Reddit doesnt make 20M a year if they buy Apollo in this situation.

If something costs 20 million/yr to operate, buying it doesnt reduce that cost. You are just out 10M upfront and then 20M/yr.

The solution is not to buy it, but to make it stop.
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Swipe to upvote/downvote puts it leagues ahead of the official app already.
Seems stupid to reward Reddit's decision. The $5 ends up in Reddit's pocket. I'd much rather fund a decentralized competitor to Reddit.
> 1) most people's favourite app is going to die

Third party apps representing less than 5% of Reddit's traffic, this is by far not "most people's" favorite app.
He addresses that in the post. He only has 30 days to accommodate the price increase. What is he supposed to do about his current clients that already paid for the year? Take a huge financial loss until his updated pricing catches up? He asked for more time, they said no.
Conceptually Speaking you can reduce it down to Intelligence and strip out the Artificial Label.

So know the question is what is Intelligence. Our standardized testing Model tells us passing tests that Humans cannot would be considered intelligent.

Then add back in artificial to complete the equation.

Commercially the Term Ai Means nothing thanks to years of Machine Learning being labeled such. It's arbitrary and relays more to Group Think to avoid approaching that Intelligence is a Scalar Value and not a Binary Construct.
Contaminants/toxins are cumulative, affecting probabilistic negative outcomes. So it always makes sense to do what you can to reduce your exposure.

Your line of thinking here is the same convenient sort of apathy which enables so many to become and/or stay obese.
Again. No system that I know about provides those properties today, so your "use one" advice is, unfortunately, impossible at the moment. Well, without having that rite I've already mentioned a few times (which violates the "convenience" property).

It's an open standard that everyone are building siloed systems on. It's exactly as you have said - I'm not locked in to any single company, but if I have devices or programs from multiple companies that bundle different implementations and don't let others in, I don't have any means to make them interoperate.

This could change someday. Fortunately, there is no fundamental design issue that prevents it. But I'm talking about what exists today and how the standard is bad for not even trying to address it, despite this being a very obvious issue.
What are the circus references about?
Would love to hear:

What are virtual developer tooling products being built right now that others think are most promising?

These are the I'm looking forward to thus far:

- magic.dev

- mutable.ai

- sweep.dev

- Copilot X
Wearing those disposable masks causes a lot of this. I'm apparently allergic to polyester so I notice this from sofas and uncovered mattresses and various other materials that (to me) surprisignly, emit a lot of plastic.
> mass-produced "fresh" milk (at 2% anyway)

At 2% I would not even bother considering this product as a milk.
Not saying it's practical but you could add your own CA on each client device and the router MitMs.

Or, e.g. you can set a flag when building Firefox that will store the secrets necessary to decrypt those packets, and the client sends the secrets to the router which sniffs and decrypts on the fly.
How do people deal with zero humidity? Does everyone use a CPAP to sleep?
Morality is declining, right? Scientists say that idea is an illusion
It's your responsibility to ensure that you and your passengers aren't letting trash out of the vehicle.

There is no exception in the littering laws for: "my car is so messy I didn't notice trash getting sucked out the window I opened."
I'd lean into my love affair with nature. I'd walk, in random places, at different times of day, and experience more of the beauty of a first at dawn, and in the middle of the night.

This is already one of my favourite things in life.
I was using RiF myself. Reddit is unusable for me without a 3rd party up as their interface is a clusterfuck. I can't complain, I was spending too much time there anyway and it's easy to cut off now.
It's probably not necessary though. Just cleaning the input data well enough and then ensuring the vocabulary is matched with the actual training data should be sufficient?

Edit: the token list for GPT-4 looks pretty clean. Overwhelmingly dominated by code but just eyeballing fragments of the set I didn't see any tokens in there that were obviously going to be rare.
I like it on paper.

In practice, not so much but mostly due to teams not using it properly or leveraging it in a way that actually makes sense. I've seen teams implement gql for something that was used by 1 consumer (another service) that asked for the entire fields in payload anyway.. at least someone got promoted (I would not have promoted them for using the wrong tool for the job, when the right tool would have allowed them to ship faster).
> Apollo is shutting down because the founder thinks they'll incur about $2.50 per month of costs per user, and apparently doesn't believe enough people will be willing to pay $5 monthly to keep Apollo running.

> So, this Reddit Premium (billed at $5.99 monthly) either has few-to-no paid users, or Apollo's founder isn't even trying to sustain his business.

If you read the post, it's not just about the willingness of users to pay. It's also about the existing obligations (prepaid subscriptions), the timeline of the changes, and the amount of work that would be required on his end to adapt to the new changes within the next three weeks.

None of that would be an issue with the proposed solution of Reddit charging the users directly.
Not complicated. US has normalized sugar addiction and obesity. Rest of the world sees this as fucking bizarre, like pretending that cigarettes are ok as long as you don't have cancer at the moment.
did you consider letting the input be just sql ddl rather than yet another layer of ddl?
Interesting to note that /u/spez hasn't posted anything on reddit for 10 months now: https://old.reddit.com/user/spez
This is exactly my goal with building https://flingup.com
Just deleted my account.
You seem to imply that there is plastic in metal spoons since you avoid the material in your examples. I’m yet to open a drawer full of plastic spoons, most of them are stainless, why bring those up in your example in particular?
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When your landlord raises your rent from $2000 to $8000, they're not really hoping to raise your rent. They're evicting you.

I think the new API pricing model was developed with a single purpose: extinguishing third-party apps to improve the official app's install/usage metrics before their upcoming IPO.
Reddit is stupid, and the whole situation is bad, but shouldn't the man behind the biggest app for the biggest forum in the world, in the lucrative ios ecosystem have made himself wealthy enough so that 250k is close to nothing?

Or am i misunderstanding how much money there is in this space?

If he isn't "10+ million"-wealthy that's extremely disappointing for all solo devs out there in my eyes.
FWIW I cannot reproduce this on Mac. I just took a packet trace of Safari 17 private browsing on the Sonoma beta, and I did not see an Apple DNS. It used my system setting, as expected.
As a person who has been using reddit very regularly for about the last ten years...my bet is that Reddit Premium has few to no paid users.
The penguins are also protected. You’re generally not even supposed to touch them, let alone eat them.
I say that large language models are not intelligent because of the way they fail to do things. In particular, they fail in such a way as to indicate they have no mental model of the things they parrot. If you give them a simple, but very unusual, coding problem, they will confidently give you an incorrect solution even though they seem to understand programming when dealing with things similar to their training data.

An intelligent thing should easily generalize in these situations but LLMs fail to. I use GPT4 every day and I frequently encounter this kind of thing.
You can't read or what? He says he's familiar with quantum mechanics literature and psychology literature, not exactly common is it? I have a CS PhD, so I know enough about research thanks. What do you have? Some nonsensical crap about how psychology is growing or whatever so forgive them lol.
yeah I think pdf should be the priority given the audience.