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The devs could spend more time optimizing their apps to make fewer requests rather than coordinating a strike and running to the press.

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It is not entirely clear how they can change to make less requests, or if the Reddit employee even compared apps fairly. There is a floor count of API calls needed.

The Apollo developer tested the official Reddit app, and it makes a similar amount of API calls: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...

Caching requests for feeds and comments would probably work. Reddit already does this at the server level with a low TTL.

Benchmarking Apollo against the official app is not that useful since we don’t know for certain what APIs they use.

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