Some popular third-party applications of the social network Reddit have stopped working, while some others have chosen to charge users for access, this against the background of the change in Reddit’s Application Programming Interface (API) policy that came into effect. In a farewell post he wrote Christian Selig, the founder of Appolo, said that Reddit “pulled the plug a little too early, cutting off the app’s access to content on the site. Selig previously stated that the cost of running the app would cost him $20 million per year under the new rules, and although the app offers subscriptions, it does not earn enough to be able to cover this amount. He announced in early June that the app would be closed by the end of the month.

Another popular Reddit app, BaconReader, is also gone, and users who launch the app will see a screen with a message thanking them and explaining that it is no longer active due to “Reddit API changes.” This is also the case with Sync for Reddit, which also sent messages to its users about the cessation of its activity.

At least two other third-party apps will continue to operate, but will begin charging users to pay for API access.

Relay for Reddit has announced that in the coming weeks it will switch to a subscription model, with a promise to charge the lowest possible price, and Now for Reddit has also announced that it will switch to a subscription model to cover the cost of API access, though it doesn’t yet have a deadline.

Reddit announced changes to its API policy in April this year, according to which it will charge $0.24 from third-party apps for every 1,000 API calls. Until now, the company’s policy has been to allow an open API for integration of third-party applications into it. The Redditors protested this policy shortly after it was announced, claiming that they would not be able to manage subreddits using only the bots that Reddit provides, but their protests do not seem to have changed Reddit’s decision.