Is the Reddit page r/Plex run by anyone associated with Plex [mod edited for content] If it isn’t moderated directly by Plex, the company should consider starting an official page.
This isn’t a rhetorical question.
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If the page on Reddit would be offical, then the same corporate rules as in these here forums would apply to it. The absence of which is probably the sole reason why you want to use Reddit instead of these forums here.
So what would be the point?
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I’d use Reddit because it I found to be faster to find the answers I’m looking for sometimes, not due to the lack of rules. You proved my point about moderators with your snide comment.
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And yet you felt it necessary to open with this?
Hadn’t realised there were only two options available. Thanks for the heads up.
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They also cant imagine a successful company participating in a protest. Because thats never happened.
You probably wouldn’t think it’s a stupid protest if you were one of the small businesses being impacted by the changes Reddit is making
I wish the people having their lives dismantled right now were more concerned with the ease at which you can find a fix for your buffering copy of Ant Man
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That and there may be people that just don’t know this forum exists.
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Serious question. I know Reddit is making changes to their API (raising fees a lot?) but not being Reddit savy, how exactly to companies use those APIs in their day to day business?
Basically, people who moderate and run these Reddit pages don’t get paid. They are IMO the people who give Reddit its value. But now Reddit is taking away the ability for them to use their API unless they pay outrageous fees on top of doing all the work they already do for free
Reddit is doing this to fight people like Microsoft who use Reddit as a way to scrape their sites and feed it into their AI databases
Everybody is being swept up into these huge rate increases that most people can’t afford. They have no choice but to completely shut down.
This can completely ruin a small 3rd party app developer
In the end, this will impact how many search results you get far more than a temporary lockout
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Exactly. I created a 3rd-party app for Plex and posted its existence on both Reddit and here in the 3rd-party app section, and on Reddit I had over 300 likes and 50+ comments. On this forum, there was next to no engagement.
The Reddit post had tons of questions and discussions that were very helpful for people trying to use the app and now all of that is gone due to the blackout.
So…sorry if I don’t feel bad for the 3rd-party developers for Reddit that were making money off of THIER platform. My app was done out of love and hours of work and I haven’t made a dime off of it.
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the reddit mod, imo, is having a power trip if you ask me. there is no reason why it isnt open for the community to use. if they want to protest, then dont moderate the sub reddit and pass it on to someone else.
yes we can use the forums but id rather just go to reddit because of the other communities im in are there. its one stop shop
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I got IP banned from Reddit, unrelated to Plex, so I say F’em and let the Reddit world and it’s sub Reddit realms suffer a ginormous collapse 
One point is the layout of plex forums are visually horrible, another point the search feature here is also horrible. When I hit control F I don’t want a site overriding my browsers basic functions
It’s a protest where 5% of the users are holding the other 95% hostage until they get what they want. Yes only 5% of reddit users use 3rd party apps
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At what point is a small businesses no longer considered small? The Apollo developer has made millions of the app plus he says it’s a part time gig
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I think that’s an entirely backwards way to look at it.
Reddit users engage with Reddit. They participate in subreddits, they write posts, they read posts, they interact with other users. They moderate subreddits.
Any content and any interactions are stored on Reddit itself. Reddit captures all of that content and all of that value.
Some users choose to use apps like Apollo or RIF to interact with Reddit. But all of the content, all of the interactions, all of the “network effect” of a social media platform, stays on Reddit.
Whether I go directly to Reddit and read a few posts, or if I use Apollo to read a few posts, that “costs” Reddit the same amount - a couple of server requests.
Reddit has suddenly become greedy and is double-dipping. This is a perfect example of enshittification. They don’t see that the value is in happy users who use Reddit and produce content.
I feel bad for the users and communities that will no longer be able to use their preferred tools. I feel bad for the 3rd-party app devs because Reddit has been a real turd about communication - telling them things wouldn’t change, impossible timelines, and outright lies.
I’m sad that we live in a world where 3rd-party app devs are eventually, always, cut off. The once-“benevolent” platform eventually decides 3rd-party support is too expensive or that they can squeeze some more $$$ out.
You developed an app, right? What platform does it run on? What does it interact with? How would you feel if Microsoft/Apple/Plex disabled your access, preventing users from using it? It’s not really about you charging money or not, it’s about the ability to build up.
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- That’s a feature of HTML and part of your web browser
- The entire forum thread doesn’t load immediately, not until you scroll, so client-side native browser search isn’t always useful
- If you hit Control-F a second time, as the little prompt says, the client-side native browser search will activate
Last I saw there was almost 10,000 subreddits participating
I never said anything about Apollo or tried to use them as gold standard of who this change impacts but…
Even if you’ve made millions. If it costs you 20 million a year to operate guess what happens? That service no longer exists. Just because you don’t care about that, doesn’t mean their concerns or their users are invalid
This is like Google telling everybody it now costs 3 million dollars a year to keep your game in the Play Store. Even though those games are making money for the developers that kind of fee is unreasonable. The developer goes out of business and you don’t get your games for free
I’m not saying they shouldn’t pay anything but the fees they’re talking about are outrageous and amount to nothing more than greed. They want to increase their value as a company on paper so they can go public which is fine. The problem is, their method to do that is to step on the people that helped build the company
I think everyone understands that Google is the superior search engine
This is about what’s fair, not what’s more convenient for you
What I’m hearing from a lot of people is a myopic… I want it, I want it now, I want it for free and I care about how this is inconveniencing ME!!!
Simultaneously they’re accusing someone who has been providing them with a free service of being on some kind of self-entitled ego trip
Maybe I’m the only one who sees the irony in that
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The protest is a joke. The users are the ones getting hurt and not Reddit. They have the right to change whatever they want. The market will decide if it is fair or not.
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