SELIG: For virtually all apps, the pricing is so high that things would either have to drastically change or things would have to shut down.ĪLLYN: Selig's back-of-the-envelope calculation was that he'd have to pay Reddit $20 million a year to keep the app going. But now, if you want Reddit data, you've got to pay the bouncer. Selig's app works by going to the Reddit bouncer, getting the OK to grab data and loading what's happening on Reddit on his app. It now has 1.5 million users a month, which is only a fraction of Reddit's traffic since it's one of the most popular sites on the internet. And I really loved Reddit, so a new Reddit app kind of felt like the natural thing to try to build.ĪLLYN: And his app became popular. So I was kind of looking for what to do next. SELIG: I started building it after I graduated university and I finished an internship at Apple. At the time, there was no official Reddit app. He developed one of the most popular third-party Reddit apps called Apollo about eight years ago.
Could you ask Reddit for all the comments on, like, this post I'm looking for? Or could you give me all the posts in a specific subreddit?ĪLLYN: That's Christian Selig, a 29-year-old who lives in Nova Scotia.
It's understandable if you hear that and think, a what? Think of it this way, though - a digital bouncer guarding the Reddit website.ĬHRISTIAN SELIG: There would be a bouncer in front of Reddit. Who pays and who profits from social media? It would be hard to read about this issue in parts of Reddit today, so NPR's Bobby Allyn explains it right here.īOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: The drama at Reddit is over something that sounds so technical it would send most people to sleep - an application programming interface, or API. Behind the protest is a big question across the internet. Thousands of communities on the website Reddit have gone dark.
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