What's stopping people from making reddit apps that stay within the free API limits?
What's stopping people from making reddit apps that stay within the free API limits?
I'm not sure on the ins and outs of hosting/running a 3rd part reddit app, but since reddit is claiming these API charges are only for apps that pull in big numbers, couldn't the app creators just make a bunch of versions of the app with a limit to how many users can access it?
I'm not sure what reddit's threshold is for when they start charging for API usage, but do any of you see this happening? Would it be possible for the 3rd party creators to release personal instances of their apps that are technically separate entities that could stay in the free APL limit?
Again, I have no idea on how 3rd party apps are run or how they access the API. I was just curious if there was a way to keep an app under the limit.
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Short answer is "no".
Long answer require some technical knowledge that you clearly don't possess and would just give you an headache.
To put it simply, if your app get successful and lots of users adopt it, you are bound to exceed those arbitrary limits.
Thing is, offering free api is not sustainable but you could offer some half way option, like including some ads in the apis responses as well and have the devs agree in showing those ads (I'm talking banners and the like) so that you can assure your ads clients that they are going to be shown anyway even by third party apps.
If course you can then go nuts on the penalties for infringing that agreement.
What is Reddit doing is basically saying, you can use our APIs if you are doing a school project.
I didn't think you were being rude btw