• Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Just loading a post and doing very little you have close to 33 requests.

    No you don’t. You can open Reddit and open a post with ~3:

    1 for getting the posts on your front page

    1 for checking your messages.

    1 for getting the comments on a post.

    Where are you getting “close to 33 requests from”? That post that says they’ve done “very little” and used 33 calls? Ah yes, because everyone “checks who the mods are +1” every time they log in to reddit. Every single user is a mod who checks their modmail (+1).

    BTW I know how API’s work, I’m a web developer. Most people will not go anywhere close to using 1000 API calls a day.

    • DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Okay so say I believe you. Why do you think a large majority of third party devs shuttered their projects they worked on for so long if it was just as easy as adding a subscription fee? Why didn’t more of them do it? I know of one that actually implemented a subscription. If folks were actually doing much less than 1000 API calls daily then you’d think most devs would have gone that way right?