It's not covered extensively because it makes no sense.

>Why not just increase the price of Apollo?

>One option many have suggested is to simply increase the price of Apollo to offset costs. The issue here is that Apollo has approximately 50,000 yearly subscribers at the moment. On average they paid $10/year many months ago, a price I chose based on operating costs I had at the time (server fees, icon design, having a part-time server engineer). Those users are owed service as they already prepaid for a year, but starting July 1st will (in the best case scenario) cost an additional $1/month each in Reddit fees. That's $50,000 in sudden monthly fee that will start incurring in 30 days.

>So you see, even if I increase the price for new subscribers, I still have those many users to contend with. If I wait until their subscription expires, slowly month after month there will be less of them. First month $50,000, second month maybe $45,000, then $40,000, etc. until everything has expired, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It would be cheaper to simply refund users.

Ok, so there's existing subscribers. They will have get new subscribers at a higher rate, and then wait for existing subscribers to renew at the higher rate before it will cover the API charges. Makes sense.

But they suggest they're just going to refund users. So why not just refund users and make a new subscription? This is what I don't understand. It's not a binary option here of closing the app or trying to cover existing user's API fees out of pocket. The middle ground of just refunding those subscribers and starting a new subscription exists.

The whole argument is that they will be out of pocket. But that is going to be the case regardless because they're going to refund users anyway.

If a platform forced you to refund $250,000 worth of subscriptions because they made a sudden chance to their API costs and treat you like you're some kind of criminal, would you be inclined to support that platform?

> It's not a binary option here of closing the app or trying to cover existing user's API fees out of pocket.

You're totally right, it's not a binary option.

It's a calculated assessment of future prospects.

You mean the same platform that earned him millions of dollars already? Yeah I’m sure he would love to support it

But clearly it’s not going to keep earning him millions, since they jacked the price up far beyond where he even stands to make a profit.