Why are API calls less cost-efficient than getting the same information on a browser?

Users in a browser can see ads; the cost is subsidised.

Users in a browser, with no ad blocking - the five remaining ones...

Sadly, there's plenty of them. Probably using MS Edge because that's what their computer came with. No adblocker installed.

And that's why they're as much against people using their own mobile web experience as they are third party apps.

A lot of third-party apps don't show Reddit's ads.

There isn't any way to in the first place: the API contains no way to show them even if the apps wanted to.

Why not update the API contract that if you use the Reddit API you need to render the ads? If you don't render the Ads they can come up with some pricing model. Seems like Reddit's pricing is designed by an MBA intern who just joined silicon valley.

That would require the API to also include ad information. I think putting a sensible price on API access would make this a bit simpler, though (and allow for a paid ad-free experience as well). The core issue isn't so much paid API access as the price being so crazy high it can't possibly reflect how much reddit would normally be making from the users of these apps, so instead looks like it is aimed at just shutting down 3rd party apps entirely.

evil-mode is deprecated? What?

Lol—that's so wrong. Someone's already got an issue open: https://github.com/erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ulti...

Evil has been fantastic. That said, I'm intrigued by Meow: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Meow inverts the order of commands: instead of vim's verb-count-object order, meow does object-count-verb, if I'm remember David Wilson's video right. This lets it pop up an avy-like overlay (I think it calls them "rulers") so you can see more clearly exactly how far of an extent an action is going to have. Kinda cool. Might try it some day.

> ~evil-mode~ Deprecated, check out Vimpulse or Vim Mode. Lol, the linked pages for Vimpulse and Vim Mode both start with the statement: > Superceded by Evil

Though frankly, any Vimmer using Emacs knows this already. Someone's either trolling, or never saw any reason to leave Vim and find out what these are options are really like, picking up the misunderstanding along the way.

I'd totally get that, these lists are awesome and maintaining them is hard work-- it's otherwise pretty great, and congratulations to everyone involved! I've always felt jealous of the folks funning neovim in their browser text-areas.

As an aside: I stick with emacs because of the modal and recursive minibuffer(s) (ie. command-line(s)). What vim setting do I change to be able to use normal mode down there?

  > I stick with emacs because of the modal and recursive minibuffer(s) (ie. command-line(s)). What vim setting do I change to be able to use normal mode down there?

Not a setting. Just press Ctrl+F when your cursor is in the command line. After that, and until you finish entering the command, you will be able to use Esc to go into normal mode again.

I "discovered" that feature by accidentally pressing q: instead of :q in the editor. Never knew about the Ctrl-F option, thank you!

It's backwards. Vimpulse etc. are deprecated in favour of evil-mode.