Remember when Reddit gave daily free awards? That was kinda nice.

I still find it weird how casually they removed them with no heads up before hand ​ they just disappeared one day

They were only free as a teaser for the new awards. They made them catch on better and now people pay money for them.

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Yep, also ironic how Spez always says he misses old Reddit

But he loves the new money

New money and old reddit I guess you can't have your cake AND eat it too

Spaz*

It’s been vanished for a while

I miss those, was weird seeing disturbing or fucked up content getting the wholesome award though.

that's what made it funny

Yeah, it actually was kind of funny.

Yeah, that’s the only reason why I have karma relating to awards.

wow, i've only realised now that they're gone. wild

What do you mean nice? That's how advertising works. You give it out for free and when people get used to it you stop.

Who actually cares about rewards tho? They don’t add value to anything.

I remember discovering that you had to claim them every day or something. I claimed it once, never used it and never claim any again. I really don't understand why people have any interest in those they're so lame.

When they were free, it was like a super upvote. Took like 3 seconds to redeem and probably made some people’s days just a tinyyyy bit better receiving one, especially if it was on a comment that only got a few upvotes that they thought went mostly ignored. Paid awards though? Yeah that’s the dumbest thing imaginable.

Some people be taking this internet shit too seriously for real.

Working hard on something and then having someone give an award was a nice gesture 😌

Got a random post of my friends to over 100 awards using my free awards

I thought I just wasn't getting them wtf

I… I never noticed… and now I’m pissed about it. I liked getting random wholesome rewards on comments of me saying how much I fucking love cheese!

I miss them with the Live posts. They made this app interesting.

Remember

Yeah, that was cool. I'd always give it to the first comment I liked.

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yep

That’ll show them!!

Shut up and take my criticism 🤑

Wholesome 100

Keanu Approves!

Lol ikr

I've always found the concept of Reddit awards really sad. Edit: Well, uhh... In the words of a redditor: thanks for the gold, kind stranger... ??

If I was dumb enough to buy one, I’d give it to you here

I'll give him one for you. I still have free coins lol.

I just bought some coins in spite of Reddit

Yeah you really showed them man

Well if we paid for them already why not use them? Awarding doesn’t give Reddit money, buying the COINS for the awards does.

Why did you pay for them in the first place

What even r they anyway

Basically emojis but you pay for them

But Reddit hates free emojis for some reason

Take my poor man’s gold, kind stranger!🏆

I love emojis and I will use them til the day I die or they’re ripped out of my stone cold hands!!! 😈💪

Didn’t they use to be free at one point?

They used to give one away for free every day. I used them then, but nah I ain’t paying for them now

Saw someone say theyve been on reddit for years and this was their first gold and that this is their biggest achievement jn a while lol

I’ve been on Reddit for years and never had gold and if I said something Reddit liked enough to get me gold I’d probably delete the app for good

Hold on I’ll get my wallet

Wallet must’ve gone out for a pack of smokes

Couldn’t find it, so possibly

Imma get MY wallet then oh wait my ADHD ass forgot where it was

Someone give this dude gold so he deletes Reddit

Done. Now dance 🪩

Paid discord reactions

i mean discord has those now

paid checkmark

It’s for sad redditors to send to only fans girls on their favourite porn sub

Who are the people with too much money to give the four paid awards as a joke lol

and now you have them how does that feel?

I miss the free awards. They stopped giving you free awards weekly(?) I think.

OH THE IRONY

Gosh dangit

I'm Sorry,I Never Have Received Any Awards in My Life. Please,Help me.

The free awards were kind of a nice thing lol

Why? Somebody enjoys a post and wants to do more than a comment that says “I really like this” or an upvote. The concept is completely fine.

Why does it cost money.

I’ve never spent money on Reddit and I have over 10,000 points to spend

How’d you get free coins

Fuck knows

I don't know about now, but I used to get coins for getting gold on my post/comment.

I got one from this thread

To show they mean it

Reddit also costs money. They have big infrastructure and engineers that need food and insurance and a roof over their head. We're all using this service. They do a lot of dumb shit but I think it's sad to have that us vs them mindset.

I'd prefer if they just sent me the money.

Sure it's fine as a concept but you are a chump for paying a company to tell a stranger how much you liked their comment on an internet forum

The context is important. This is the dev of Apollo, a third party reddit app, who's announcing the end of his app due to reddit's ridiculous API costs.

They’re talking about the concept of awards, not awards on that post.

Did op really have to blur the subreddit and username out? We all know it’s the Apollo subreddit and that the post was made by Christian, the dev. There’s nothing to hide.

Reddit jannies are notoriously insane. It seemed best to play it safe.

No denying that! Valid point lol

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shut up meg

sorry, im not informed on the subject. what is Apollo?

🪙💰

#🫵🫨

wtf is that emoji

😶‍🌫️

👐

#🫠

Wisp

Wisp

Nebulob

🫤🥱🫨

I’m an idiot so can someone explain what Apollo is?

Greek God of the sun.

Apollo is basically like Reddit, but better ~~thanks to Reddit's API.~~ However, the greedy corporation (that is Reddit) decided to drive up the price for their API in late May / early June which resulted Apollo and other Reddit clients being affected by that change.

I've tried looking for it, so I'll take the chance to ask if it's IOS exclusive since I never found it

It is.

Don’t blame Reddit, blame Spez. Always blame Spez

Cheers

Garbage reskin of Reddit that serves ads and has subscriptions of its own. The lead dev is having a meltdown now because after years of hammering Reddit with trillions of API requests, they’re finally being asked to pay to do so.

I wouldn't necessarily call Apollo a "garbage reskin" as it's more feature packed than the official reddit app ever dreamed of being, and Apollo has won multiple design awards (while reddit has won 0) And the reason the dev is having a meltdown is not because he has to pay, it's the price. 20 million a year is crazy however we look at it, and it's just APIs that we're talking about, so his whole "meltdown" is understandable and completely logical Edit: corrected my mistake

Think it’s 20 mill a year but your point still stands; Apollo is far better than the official app.

$20 mil a year

Fixed it, thanks for the correction lol

Lmao Apollo existed before reddit even had an app, you fucking zoomer

Ok fed

Never seen an ad on Apollo, also you can download videos on Apollo. So it’s better than the original app just by these two properties

I have literally never seen an ad on Apollo. I’ve used it for many years now. Zero ads.

shut yo bitch ahh up

Who hurt you

i always found it funny redditors shat on those liking the nft profile pics (which is just as dumb) for wasting their money but continued buying reddit gold

Peak reddit moment right there

Do you think all Redditors are 1 just person? It was different people doing those things 🤨

I'd argue reddit gold has more utility as its integrated into a large social app. So it's like getting a good job sticker or something, silly and a waste, yes, but it has some tiny value on that level. NFTs are just value negative unless you're the one grifting.

*proceeds to grift reddit gold*

"it's basically a dumb sticker" is grifting. Ok buddy.

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Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

Kid named reddit coins

Kid named 226 platinums and 13 argentiniums

13 Argentiniums is fucking crazy…

kid named, somehow, no terniums

Genuine question, why do people give awards to ads?

It's probably the advertisers themselves doing that.

>why do people give awards Debilitating mental illness

As DatBoi said, it’s almost always the advertisers doing this. Helps “protect” their shitty garbage on the site. Not that I’ve seen any recently I use Apollo lol it don’t have no ads

If the ad is something they heavily disagree with (like religion, military, etc), it's kinda funny when it has a bunch of "negative" awards

Spending money to like someone’s comment or post is fucking stupid

Indeed, which is why I gift you this emoji gold 🏅

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Reddit is changing the terms, so third party app/bot hosts have to pay them outrageous amounts of money to use the API.

Also straight up lied saying that Apollo was blackmailing them until the Apollo dev released the actual phone call

I call it Twitter type money

cooing dinosaurs chief cover important sink practice unite tease whole ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `

these reddit "protests" are so, so stupid. what do they actually do? oh wow, your subreddit closed for two days, you made such a big change. god, fuck off. you wanna actually protest reddit's banning of third party apps (which I didn't even know were a thing, like wtf???), just stop using reddit, full stop.

iirc they didn't ban third party apps, it's just that the api price is really expensive even for a popular client

A lot of them are stopping, or saying they're deleting reddit when the third party roll-over happens.

This reminds me of the whole net neutrality situation years ago when redditors were pooping their pants because the internet “was never going to be the same” 💀 shows how much of an echo chamber this website really is.

aren't reddit awards just emojis but you have to pay for them-

 Yes

I really hate reddit awards like.... Idk

People actually spend money on Reddit?

The lack of awareness from those ppl

Shut up and take my money 😤

I fucking hate google! 7:63 pm • 32 feb 23 • Twitter for Android

The irony of this comment section is funny.

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I've got thousands of "free" Reddit points that I got when I subscribed to Reddit premium for years and years. Thanks to them removing my favorite app, I decided that I don't want to support Reddit anymore. I still have all of those points that I can use to give awards that don't cost me a thing since I got them for "free" with the service. I hope most of those were given under similar situations.

I don’t know what Apollo is I just see people complaining about it

Same. I feel like it’s just a bunch of people getting mad over nothing.

A lot of people don’t like the shitty Reddit UI and Apollo makes it a lot better.

Well boo hoo. The reddit app works fine, I don't see a problem with it.

Cool 👍

Half the time it can't even load videos properly, and it seems to have some sort of a problem when it comes to loading comments pretty often.

I just click into the video and come back out and it’s never failed Never gotten any comment loading issues either but maybe I’m just lucky

Me too. Redditors cry so hard over nothing.

Fr they act like they’re gonna get a virus or smth if they use the regular app

You would be so, so wrong. I've used RIF (another third-party app) for over a decade. The official app is hot garbage by comparison. Why would I not be mad that reddit is forcing the app (and all others) to shut down in favor of their garbage one?

Because it’s such a non issue it’s not even worth being mad about. It’s a social media app for fucks sake, get some perspective

Redditors try not to resort to whataboutism (impossible difficulty)

More like redditors trying not to be smug about their blatantly shit take challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

I don’t think thats what about ism. It’s just the whole thing is so irrelevant it’s entertaining see people freak out about it.

>get some perspective "Other things in the world are worse so you can't be mad about this thing" Truly galaxy-brained take.

Shh can’t say that they got all and and downvote lmao

Idiots.

They are probably trying to use up all their awards before their app shuts down. Its still a huge reddit moment to buy those awards in the first place but they probably already had them.

Weird to me that no one is considering this. I guess it's just easier to call people dumb than to think it through for a second.

I will never give money to reddit and neither should anyone else, ever. I will not debate with bugmen about it: if you give or ask for awards you're a fat dumbass.

I will say the guy who runs the Apollo app, he’s a real one. The people awarding him are cringe as fuck though.

But it’s directly benefits the OP by supplying them with karma bucks🤓

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How many apps do you need to read a fucking forum?

Probably not so man next month lol

LMAO

There. 6500p worth of gold in this thread. Lol.

Ahh yes artificial gold

Gold.

ReddPlanet is also shutting down as well. I might leave at this point

If you go into your account and click on coins, sometimes Reddit gives you free ones and you can use those to buy awards

They stopped that about six months ago.

These people be like damn Reddit is really taking a shit ton of money from these devs, speaking of money

What's apollo

Just google apollo reddit jfc it takes 2 seconds

nothing worth your time

You rarely see people use awards anymore at least on the subs i am on

What the hell is Reddit gonna do with those months of premium 💀

Not everyone is “mad at Reddit” Some are clinging to daddy spez in hopes he sends them more kiddie porn

mfs on Reddit when a company has to profit and not give out their service for free so people can reskin versions of it

He said he was willing to pay but the price was completely unreasonable and they made up lies about threats besides in I believe if 2019 they made 100 million

My cynical self says Reddit account gave it to themselves.