Hmmm...I wish that were true. But I sincerely doubt reddit will fail entirely. It's going to pick itself up after this, no question. What matters is how valuable the site that remains will be when the dust settles.

Without the power user base and a good deal of the mods, when it's going to lose a good deal of its value. It will exist, sure. But I really don't think it's going to resemble what it was.

It's good news for spez, though. Just looking at the comments in a lot of posts recently, it definitely looks like the predominant voice is sycophants and corporate bootlickers that feel the need to defend a tech company that made money for years off the back of misinformation and hate. Lots of really tech illiterate people that probably couldn't tell you how to navigate a file tree expressing how they don't have a problem with the official app. Spez may actually go back to reading comments again (I guarantee the guy hasn't actually been reading them for years).