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Update from DBrady, creator of Relay for Reddit (not me!):

Update: Relay will continue to operate from July 1st. It will be moving to a subscription model in the coming weeks but, for now, it’s available for everyone to use free of charge and ad-free!

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in updating everyone on the future of Relay. It’s taken until now for me to work things out.

For the time being, Relay is going to be free for everyone to use (this means no fees and no ads) while i continue optimising API calls and finalising subscription prices. I’m working hard to get call volumes down and i’ll try my best to hit as low a price point as possible, at least for a base tier that covers 85-90% of users. At the higher end of usage it’s looking like i’ll need to implement a few different price points but this is still something i need to figure out. I’ll let you know when i do.

Thanks again for all the incredible messages over the last week. I’ve seen them all and they really mean a lot - knowing how long some people have been using Relay for is amazing. For anyone moving on from here, thanks for supporting Relay over the last 12 years - i’m forever grateful.

Relay Pro (should now be free to use): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news

Relay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2sTb4GzEz4

Cheers,

Dave

  • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You’re right that this is a PR move rather than a genuine attempt to work with devs, but I think it would have been more clever if Reddit had done this three weeks ago, when they could have undermined the “this will kill third party apps” narrative. Instead, they waited until Huffman had spouted off about how he admires Elon, who killed Twitter’s third party apps, and how the API was “never meant” for third party apps. Basically, he has expressed a personal desire to see third party apps killed, and usually the CEO’s opinion overrules official company statements with this kind of thing. So now, it’s going to be hard for the company to turn around and claim that killing third party apps isn’t their end goal.