Pricing for Imgur is: $500 for 7.5m requests then $0.01 per request after that. Then $10,000 for 150m requests and $0.01 per request after that.
Reddit is at $0.24 per 1,000. Or $0.00024 per request.
Imgur is cheaper for 150m requests but Reddit is cheaper for 500m requests.
So really, what is a reasonable pricing?
Is delivering an image of comparable cost to delivering text via an api?
I have zero experience in this area so could learn something.
Reddit, on the other hand, makes <$1 per user worldwide.
So, a reasonable price would be somewhere between $4 and $200 per year
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[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
I don't know what the right number is, but Reddit has made it abundantly clear with this move that they aren't interested in finding it.
Honestly, I doubt there is one anymore (for me at least). Any trust I had for their corporate leadership before has completely evaporated. If they were to lower the prices to a "reasonable" level now it would indicate that they either capitulated (but didn't get to do what they really wanted and probably will try again later) or they are just being manipulative and wanted to use this as a way to show "goodwill" by bringing the price down.
The concept of the fediverse these days has me hopeful for a time where we don't need to worry about these big dumb corporate interests holding our data and the control over it hostage. Any publicly owned (or private trying to go public) organization with a profit incentive is bound to make stupid, short-term decisions eventually, and this is just one of many of Reddit's forays into that arena. They will continue to get worse and worse, regardless of how effective the protesting is.
Just saying, it's never fair to try and say any one party in this arrangement is just leeching off another.
Reddit provides a platform, Users provide the community, and third-party app developers make interaction between the other two easier. Third-party apps aren't even able to engage with certain reddit content because the API never exposed it, but people still choose them; That says a lot about how they feel about the official app, and the real value that third-party devs provide.
What's crazy to me is that Reddit could have easily achieved their goals by just investing in developing a really good native app that people want to use, thereby monetizing them while also building goodwill! This whole thing could be achieved and make them look -better-. But they are making stupid short-term decisions to be able to IPO and they chose the stick over the carrot.
Both sites serve - image, video, and text(comments or posts).
Imgur would almost certainly be cheaper to run due to the simpler nature of the site. Imgur would just need checking the overall site for content.
Reddit would be checking each of the subreddits for content and aggerating it. Which would be more complex and more expensive to run.
Realistically, it's the best comparision there is.
> Reddit would be checking each of the subreddits for content and aggerating it. Which would be more complex and more expensive to run.
Did you even take a second to look at Imgur before confidently saying something so incorrect? The homepage clearly references tags, with individual posts a la subreddits.
Also, it's not like each subreddit is an individual database table or something. You're making it seem like aggregation is a substantial cost when it's just a different DB query.
They have tags. Not subreddits. Tagging systems are completely different from how a subreddit works. In my experience a tagging system isn't that expensive to run. Comparing tags with sections seeems completely bonkers and very naive.
> Also, it's not like each subreddit is an individual database table or something. You're making it seem like aggregation is a substantial cost when it's just a different DB query.
In my experience, to make complex data like Reddit's highly available you need to do a whole bunch such as making subreddits separate buckets so to speak. The aggregation almost certainly has a substantial costs. This isn't some dinky MySQL database with few thousand posts. It seems absurd to compare a site with a single feed (Even if it has tags) vs a system that has a personalised feed.
I'm sure the team who build and maintain the feed mixer are happy to hear you could build it with just a database query. I'm sure they'll be reaching out so you can show them this database query.
It seems a lot of people want Imgur to be more expensive to operate therefore fair that it can be more expensive to use. While the reality seems to be the reverse.