But what really choked developers was the short notice, as Reddit reportedly offered developers only 30 days to adapt to the API switch. Selig announced that even if he hikes the current Apollo subscription to $5 per month and gains thousands of new subscribers, that still won’t be sufficient to sustain the API payments and cover operational costs. It seems that Selig also had some tense moments with Reddit representatives who allegedly accused him of threatening or extorting the company to the tune of $10 million. Selig responded in his Reddit post by revealing that he’d recorded all of the calls with the company, and he shared a snippet of one call to counter the claims about his supposed threats.
Selig’s Reddit post also contains transcripts of his conversations with company executives and it appears that Reddit was far from being cooperative, let alone offering some breathing room by extending the API fee grace period. Selig says he even suggested an Apollo sale to Reddit, considering it is the most popular Reddit client and has raked millions of downloads. However, Reddit was apparently not interested in that idea, and CEO Huffman reportedly refused to talk directly with Selig.
However, Selig isn’t inclined to sell Apollo to any random buyer. “I’d rather the app just die if it would go to a company that would turn something I worked really on into something that would ruin its legacy,” he wrote. Selig says he is working on a way to refund the current subscribers and before the June 30 shutdown, will offer users to export their data. At the end of the day, it’s just a poor send-off for a very fine app.
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