This morning when I opened Infinity to check Reddit, I saw the announcement above: they're going subscription-only. Ironically enough, I couldn't scroll down to see the rest of the message including prices, if there were any. I also couldn't see if there was a button to close the message or start a paid subscription. I couldn't proceed to Reddit at all. My only option was to close the app completely. So I uninstalled it.
That's it for me using Reddit on mobile! Can't say I'll miss it much. But I added a LOT of content to Reddit that way, so it's their loss. Fuck you, spez!
I have auto update turned off for apps, so I didn't get the last update for Infinity and I can still use it to see Reddit, for now. Once it dies I'm out though. I can't imagine they will be able to get enough subscriptions to support the app, so I'm not really sure what the goal is here.
Even the people subbed to r/Infinity_For_Reddit are saying they won't buy a subscription. Wouldn't Infinity be racking up a huge bill from Reddit once the API change goes into effect? There's no way subscriptions will cover that so I don't understand why they're doing this.
FWIW I migrated from Infinity to RedReader and I've been pretty satisfied with it. It takes a little bit to get used to the different navigation but Infinity's navigation was already annoying (I had moved to Infinity about 6 months ago from Slide, which I think had the best navigation of all of them but Slide has been abandoned for quite some time).
@pixelpop3 I went to redreader also at first because they where giving a pass from the third party api mess. only thing i didn't like about redreader is that the notifications takes 30 mins cause they don't want to go against the api limit/refresh rate. I already deleted my reddit account on the 13th so there is no point anymore!
The 30min delay surprised me at first, but it's nice as a way of disengaging from reddit and deprioritizing it. I wouldn't mind setting it to once daily. 😂
I saw the announcement above: they’re going subscription-only. Ironically enough, I couldn’t scroll down to see the rest of the message including prices, if there were any. I also couldn’t see if there was a button to close the message or start a paid subscription.
Hmmmm.... This might be me having a déjà vu moment or this is somehow similar to something that has made the news recently.
Seriously, this seems to me to be a subtle jab at Rəddit with how their API pricing announcement not having any pricing information as well as a push for its users to get off that site.
They should have announced what that subscription fee would be. The fact that they haven't decided yet makes me think that I won't like whatever they decide.
What I see happening is starting at a low monthly fee. Many users will not subscribe/delete Infinity. Now Infinity raises the fee to meet Reddit's demands. Everyone else deletes Infinity.
I was holding out hope that there would be Infinity for Lemmy, but that ship has now clearly sailed.
I was willing to pay infinty a subscription in order to keep using reddit, but Lemmy is actually far better than I expected, so I'm just not going back to reddit now!