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    Why did reddit choose to charge app developers 
    (causing financial uncertainty) for API requests 
    instead of charging the end-users?
Selfishly I almost wish this had been their course of action -- restrict API access to Reddit Gold members, or some such.

Reddit Gold is $5.99/month, so 5-6x their average monthly income per user. Hell, they could just make it $2 a month.

Source, not sure how reliable: https://sacra.com/c/reddit/

One downside to this is that while $5.99/month is affordable to many, for other people (particularly those in other parts of the world) it is completely unaffordable. So, probably a no-go.




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