I think the free limit is supposed to be per user, since he says that "over 90% of apps" make rates at requests within the free limit.
> since he says that "over 90% of apps" make rates at requests within the free limit.
>90% of apps are people that played around with the API a bit for fun or run a small hobby-bot or something. Of course those stay below the limit (and for many of those, 100 qpm is indeed quite generous). It's also entirely irrelevant to the small number of apps that non-dev end users use.
You may be right, the reddit post has been edited multiple times. I assumed when it referenced OAuth that it was per end user, but it does seem that "client_id" is global to the application. I wish I could find any place else that lays out the details on the limit besides just this one reddit post...
Currently, it says the limit is "100 queries per minute per OAuth client id if you are using OAuth authentication"
And it's pretty shitty if he's including every single toy project within the "90% of apps".
https://reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_e...