To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It’s 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 “IfR” 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 Apollo’s dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn’t 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 don’t see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake…

  • KaKi87
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    2 days ago

    some asshole could extract/crack it and give her a massive bill […] it will be trivial for some asshole to make a revanced patch to bypass the subscription

    Hi,

    I stumbled on your post looking for a ReVanced patch for Infinity, not for bypassing the subscription though : until now, I was using a fork that implements login using Reddit’s official app’s API, but it stopped being updated while I was getting tired of some bugs, so I was hoping for a ReVanced patch which would accomplish the same thing. There isn’t, but I found one that allows you to bring your own API key, so I went with that.

    Before using that fork though, I was bypassing the subscription, with Lucky Patcher : it worked fine, which, as you pointed out, means I was making the maintainer pay for me. I didn’t really feel bad about that because they made the choice not to support any of the abovementioned alternatives, even though when I discovered those, I switched because I still didn’t like Reddit getting that money.