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I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...
The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.
They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I'd be willing to bet that you'd have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it's all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.
This is based on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
Yeah, I definitely saw that. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they're expecting third party app devs to basically be charging what they do for Reddit premium, which is honestly pretty ridiculous. Most people aren't going to want to suddenly have to pay anywhere near $6/month for what they had been getting for free. Reddit also screwed up by not having a way that their existing Reddit Premium users might continue having API access in third party apps with a personal token instead of making all third party app devs be brokers in the exchange. They're making the system needlessly complicated IMHO.
They could have drastically simplified the whole issue by decreeing that only premium Reddit accounts may use a third-party app. They get their money and people only mildly groan instead of getting outraged and abandoning ship.
Hey look, a fellow boost refuge.
What I'd actually rather do is have all of reddit pay devs of a federated platform like this one or similar a small amount to have a platform without ads.
I use(d) and love boost! I mostly based the ui in jerboa after it, because it's so beautiful.
Shame it's always been closed source.
Just deleted reddit and moved here. Jerboa is clean as fuck. Minor improvements here/there but the fact that its open source cancels that all out. Hell I might even contribute myself
Thanks! I could def use more dev help on it, as I'm spread very thin.
Its had other contributers, but none of them have stuck around.
No wonder I felt right at home as soon as I changed the feed layout to small cards (to better match my Boost preference). You've done a fantastic job reproducing the feeling of Boost!
Thanks!
Great job man. You've made me forget I've switched sites.
Thanks! <3
As a fellow boost user, it's sad to see us here! If Reddit really is going that way, hope the boost fev makes a Lemmy app......
I did base jerboa's UI off of boost, because it's my fav reddit app also.
Enjoying jerboa so far, a couple bugs but despite being so new it's even more stable than Reddit's official app. Thanks for your hard work.
No problem.