I recently opened the app to ensure that it infact does not work anymore, but it just showed me the newest feed, like it did before. What is going on here? Are people funding this? Or have they switched to a third party API for read only?

  • jjnjjlr@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    The dev announced they will be switching to a subscription model. However, Infinity is open source and someone is trying to make a lemmy/kbin version called Beyond. They don’t have a discord up yet but it seems like they plan to when an alpha is ready.

  • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee
    4·
    1 year ago

    My understanding is that they’re switching to a paid model. As in, you’ll have to pay to continue using it, but if you do start paying, it’ll work indefinitely. (Or at least until the makers of Infinity make the determination that even having users pay won’t be enough to keep Infinity financially sustainable.)

    Given that that’s Infinity’s plan, the theory is that probably the makers of Infinity have gone to Reddit and negotiated an extension of the non-paid API plan long enough for Infinity to implement a way for users to pay for it. I don’t think there’s any official word exactly how long that extension will be, but the expectation is that it will run out at some point and when it does, you’ll have to pay to keep using Infinity.

    One thing I’m not sure about, though, is how exactly that’ll work given that Infinity is open source. Surely there’s a “shared secret” or something involved. And for that kind of authentication method to work, the secret has to stay… well… secret. So they wouldn’t be able to just commit that secret to the Github repo. Maybe it’ll be some kind of OAuth2 scheme or something where Infinity-owned servers and Reddit servers will communicate behind the scenes to get you logged in.

  • Generator@lemmy.pt
    3·
    1 year ago

    It will be working till new update, then the developer should revoke if current API key and create a new for the new version.
    Aver that it should stop work

  • Bill@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s going subscription-only and it’ll stop working without a subscription the next time the app updates. Presumably the developer paid Reddit for API access and is hoping to recoup the costs with the subscription model but the subscription model isn’t live yet. That’s why it currently works for free.

  • scotchedpommes@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    …it just showed me the newest feed, like it did before. What is going on here?

    Seems it could be because the new API rate limits weren’t actually implemented on the 1st. They’re going to be enforced in “the coming weeks”.

    I’d been looking into why another app (Boost, which will be shutting down) is still running as well.