Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
I have a story to tell, about the demise of one of the largest internet forums in my language.<p>About ten years ago, when smartphones just started appearing, the forum did not have a mobile version, and there are various 3rd party clients on the App Store or Android Market.<p>Later on, one of the largest 3rd party client was blocked, because of they hammering the forum&#x27;s servers too hard,. Or something about caching and stealing ad revenue.<p>Then a couple years later, in 2017, the 3rd party client&#x27;s devs launched its own forum reusing the client&#x27;s name. It exploded in popularity and quickly took over as the most popular message board among the youth.<p>The old forum now has a sort of boomer or mentally ill stigma to it.<p>I hope to see Apollo go down this route.<p>Oh, and I think both forums in the story did not monetize as hard as reddit going to paid awards and memberships.<p>One more thought: Keep the Apollo UI or whatever thing the users are most familiar with. Most of them do not care if it is fediverse or open source or backed by web-scale k8s, they only want it to just work (tm) good enough to post things on it. Eat the lunch you prepared yourself.