To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.
Itβs her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.
In my view, the cross section of βIfRβ users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).
And if Apolloβs dev Christian Selig decided that it wasnβt worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I donβt see how a small app like IfR can survive.
That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistakeβ¦
Itβs 100% clear that Reddit is trying to kill off third party apps completely so that they can facefuck you with ads and other garbage. The Apollo dev saw the writing on the wall. I canβt blame other app devs for trying to squeeze a bit more livelihood out of this, but hopefully theyβve realized that they need to move on asap. In the end, itβs a great reminder to not build your business on someone elseβs platform, even if theyβre βcoolβ.