Reddit's API pricing sparks outrage and threatens popular app.

Christian Selig, the developer of the popular Reddit client Apollo, may have to shut down the app due to Reddit's new API pricing structure, which charges $12,000 per 50 million API requests. Apollo made 7 billion API requests last month, resulting in a $1.7 million bill. Even if Selig cut out all free users and went strictly with a subscription-only model, he'd still be in the red financially with Reddit's new API pricing. Redditors have not taken kindly to the actions of the company, stating they would abandon Reddit altogether if it killed Apollo and the rest of its third-party app ecosystem with this new API pricing structure.