I'm generally willing to pay for a service (I donate to Open Source Projects I regularly use) because of course there are server costs, development costs, etc. But in this case and after all that Reddit has done to its user base it would be a very bad signal to give them money for it... I like Infinity for reddit and would love to have an Infinity for Lemmy
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The other point for me is that reddit has been getting shittier long before the API change. Forcing you to use their crappy app when you just clicked a link on mobile, all this weird avatar and award stuff. The weird chat that got bolted onto their message system, yet keeping the two seperate?
There's no way I will pay for that.
Did you know, there’s actually 3? PM, Chat and Legacy Chat… whatever the heck differentiates the last two is frankly beyond me, a 12+ yrs old Reddit user…
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There's no way to be profitable with this pricing. Simply no way. Each time an user opens the app it will cost 2 cents in API requests. Continue scrolling, open threads and the costs rises. In average, accounting all the lurkers, inactive and free users, it might look like that it could be supported by a $2 subscription. But then, who is willing to subscribe to an app to read a free website? Only the most addicted users. The ones that will doom scroll for hours. The ones that will do 10000 api requests per day
Also, the server backend must be rewritten from scratch. Right now the app is open source and it's talking directly to the reddit servers using the API key. After the change, it could continue to do so, but because extracting the API key from the APK is trivial, some asshole could extract/crack it and give her a massive bill
Every single request must be proxied by her own server, making a check for a valid subscription to each user and also some quota management. Possibly some caching to save money on the most popular posts. Otherwise it will be trivial for some asshole to make a revanced patch to bypass the subscription. But implement this takes months, she can't have done this and tested carefully in just two weeks
Please someone let her realize this before she gets a massive bill at the end of the month, i don't have a reddit account for that
some asshole could extract/crack it and give her a massive bill [...] it will be trivial for some asshole to make a revanced patch to bypass the subscription
Hi,
I stumbled on your post looking for a ReVanced patch for Infinity, not for bypassing the subscription though : until now, I was using a fork that implements login using Reddit's official app's API, but it stopped being updated while I was getting tired of some bugs, so I was hoping for a ReVanced patch which would accomplish the same thing. There isn't, but I found one that allows you to bring your own API key, so I went with that.
Before using that fork though, I was bypassing the subscription, with Lucky Patcher : it worked fine, which, as you pointed out, means I was making the maintainer pay for me. I didn't really feel bad about that because they made the choice not to support any of the abovementioned alternatives, even though when I discovered those, I switched because I still didn't like Reddit getting that money.
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Infinity for Reddit is OpenSource: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit
Apparently Reddit doesn't allow the original developer to publish the app with a field for a user API key... but there are tutorials on what to modify to get it to work, and there might be forks out there with the required fields baked in.
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Subscription with less features (no nsfw). That's a no from me. I will not be using reddit on mobile.
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I love infinity but paying for Reddit to enable them to continue doing this is something I hope nobody does.