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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by scytale@lemm.ee to c/reddit@lemmy.world

Narwhal released v2 of their app today to the general public. As a loyal narwhal user before I moved to lemmy, I still had the app on my phone so I checked it out.

The app now shows your api usage so you know how much you’ll need to pay based on your average browsing habits. It’s making users uncomfortable because they can’t browse carefree knowing the counter goes up every time they do something in the app.

Such a shame because the new app version is beautiful, but look at what reddit is forcing app devs to do just so their app can live on.

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Absolutely nuts to have users pay for engagement. It seems like the worst possible solution to me...

They say there are plans though, how much are they and does this mean there is some kind of "care free plan" for an outrageous amount of money that allows unlimited access?

[-] silentknyght@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This is kinda wild. If "basically any action you take" is really real, I bet I had an average of 100 api calls per day. The only way I'd take less than 20 actions/day is if I used it for <30 minutes/day.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Leave it to a platform run by a twat to suppress engagement from the people that actually create content. Why waste precious API calls upvoting/downvoting/commenting when those are better used for loading new content?

[-] BROMETHIUS@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

Imagine paying to upvote or downvote people.

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Seeing this post reminded me to delete the Narwhal app.

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Uninstalled relay for reddit the other day.

I'll not be giving them ad information / revenue and paying them to see if

this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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