Haha yeah, me too. I should really check in to the subreddit of my app and see if there were any updates. I used Relay for Reddit, and initially the dev said they were going to try doing it as a subscription, then the more maths they did the more they realised it would never work.

Basically if you remove the free version and only have a monthly subscription, then you lose your low end users and retain your higher end ones. This means more requests on average, so the price needs to be higher, but the higher price means you lose some of the mid-tier users because they were willing to pay but not that much, then you only end up with the super high tier users, which cost too much for a subscription to support.

So a couple of weeks ago there was hope that some apps could continue as a subscription, but that hope seems to have died now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Relay was my drug of choice too, it was a fantastic app. I'm hoping that Brady decides to port it or adapt it for Lemmy, although the app I'm trying now seems promising.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There doesn't seem to be any news about Relay after he commented about how it may be unfeasible over a week ago.

I think the user base of Lemmy isn't big enough to financially support lots of different apps in the same way reddit did, but it would be nice to see at least one or two of the popular ones ported over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey Dave, have you seen this? Relay is moving to a subscription model after all - but now I've kinda gone off the idea of reddit altogether.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hadn't, thanks for pointing it out! It sounds like a few apps have struck a deal with reddit to give them a few more months to work things out.

But yeah, I definitely won't be using reddit like I used to, and it wouldn't be worth me paying a subscription (especially knowing it almost all goes straight to reddit)