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The only reason I said I like it is because I want Reddit to face repercussions for the decisions they're making. Sorry if it sounded any other way. This is absolutely awful for me as a user, especially since I used Apollo everyday. But something NEEDED to happen.

They won't.

I bet the only users they lose will be the real power-users, ya know, volunteer moderators and that sort.

Hopefully for the owners’ sake they manage to finish their IPO before that whole situation explodes.

> Hopefully for the owners’ sake they manage to finish their IPO before that whole situation explodes.

That just kicks the can. After the IPO there are more owners on the hook if things go critically bad.

If the 3rd part Apps did find some way to eat the cost, it would basically solve reddit's monetization problem. Redditors could feel good paying 10$/month to their favorite reddit ap developer, and not evil corpo Reddit, and reddit gets their money.

This was probably the best-case-scenario Reddit was hoping for.