Same. It's not about the app anymore. It's about reddit itself.
Same. It's not about the app anymore. It's about reddit itself.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm fine with a subscription, but not at that price and not with that CEO. Spez will not see a cent of my money, no matter how much I loved Relay.
Still, most if not all of that subscription fee is just going back to Reddit in API calls. Not interested in supporting them at all, whether through a first or third party app.
Infinity was a good replacement when Sync did its redesign, which I didn't care for. Ah well. I don't blame them of course, but reddit isn't something I'm going to pay a subscription to access on a 3rd party app on my phone.
Same here. No offense to the developer of Infinity, but I don't see too much value in accessing Reddit on mobile enough to pay for a subscription. Now that I have Lemmy, I'll probably only use Reddit while trying to search for a solution for something.
Probably the solution you will find will be deleted or edited to „fuck u/spez“ hopefully.
I do, but I don't want to pay reddit after what they did.
I was (still am) a patreon of Doctile Alligator because I just loved the app and used it so much.
I'm now using Infinity for Lemmy and love it so far. Voyager is also pretty good and gets updated every day. For me it's between these two clients.
I feel like this is largely a culture thing on Android. Apollo has made the subscription model work with tons of success on iOS, where paid apps are normalized. For me, I'd happily fund an open source app, but not Reddit itself.
It's open source so someone might do it
Props to the dev for trying to keep the app going, but Reddit isn't worth the price they ask nowadays, and when 3PA get killed for good, without the moderation those allowed, Reddit would be even more of cesspool of spambots etc. so absolutely not going to pay for a spam service lol
I never really cared for Infinity. Every FOSS app has one strange idiosyncrasy that the developer is extremely stubborn about and won't compromise on: for example, weather app Wx is perfect but for the fact that the developer refuses to incorporate location services. With Infinity, it was the fact that the app didn't store the read/unread state of posts persistently, and because the app had an option to hide read posts, the dev just wontfixed it and called it a day. Some people had no issue with that but for me it was unusable.
Thanks for the heads up. Just forked the project and hopefully it should be relatively simple to change the API key and rebuild the app. That being said, keeping up to date with the upstream changes might prove more difficult
Farewell, Infinity. :(
I'll try to look into making infinity compatible with Lemmy with a reddit API proxy, that client is soooo good I need it :(. And I really don't want to pay reddit through their API.
Being an Infinity user, I loved the app. I wish I could use it again for Lemmy. But since I don't plan on going back to Reddit, I guess it's time to say goodbye...
Just give in to Reddit's ridiculous demands indeed.
This is just a start for them to charge even more down the line "cuz profits".
It will not be sustainable as an 3rd party app one way or the other.
They can also just revoke the access without blinking just because they would feel like it.
Personally I use the infinity for Reddit app and this is disappointing as it’s my favorite app but I wouldn’t pay a subscription for it. Although I do understand why he/she is doing it I am still disappointed.
It needs an API key to function so they’ll disable the old key and generate a new one which they’ll keep private.
They will not give you the real API key. Everything you request will go through their own server, that way they can also cache stuff globally.
Reddit won't allow the dev to create an app where users can enter their own keys. So it will still be FOSS but you'd have to build it yourself with your own keys, if you can somehow obtain them. Thus there's no point in putting the app on F-Droid.
If Reddit were to back down from their API gamesmanship, I'd probably stick with Infinity, as it's a great app and easily my favorite 3P Reddit app.
I don't expect Reddit will back down, so in all likelihood I will miss both this service and this app. Damn shame.
Understandable, porting an app for another service is a lot of work and dev of infinity might not want to do it.
Loving Infinity and I would pay for a premium version without beating an eye, but subscription is out of the question (moreso since it would go to reddit, forcing this on 3rd party apps in the first place, with this API change). The moment Infinity becomes subscription based is the moment I uninstall it, sadly.
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