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Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits
(www.techzine.eu)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The funny thing is... for me it wasn't even the API changes, it was how Steve reacted to the community feedback. If you need to make your app profitable that's fine by me, but don't ignore your customers so bluntly. They could've easily worked politely with devs to find an agreeable API price, find alternative funding streams for those devs, etc. They did none of that, instead Steve acted like a jerk.
Honestly if they’d worked with the Apollo dev and he’d turned around and proposed something reasonable like $2 a month to continue using it I’d still be on Reddit.
Treating Reddit users like shit, treating devs who have made their whole business about making Reddit better like shit, fucking with unpaid mods, and finally, this weird manifest destiny attitude that Reddit will succeed despite all of the above turned me to the Fediverse.
Just make it part of reddit premium! Ugh, why wasn’t that the solution.
Because that doesn't kill the competition.
I have been so spoiled by my 3pa I can't even look at the old.wasit.com I just see
Ad Post Post Ad Post Post Post Ad Next page.
Idk how people put up with that.
Embrace Ad Ad Extend Ad Extinguish 30 second non skippable ad
That link is extremely dead, what was it
Reddit was it but not anymore