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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's letter to Reddit employees in response to blackout (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gary@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don't want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we'll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/

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[-] peroleu@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I do miss the niche communities and educational ones on Reddit, but Lemmy is great so far.

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[-] FiendishFork@lemmy.one 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like putting out a public statement downplaying the situation like this is just going to encourage further protest.

Edit: just realized it was addressed to employees, but he had to know it would become public.

[-] Nogami@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

meaning: the users are our enemy and they hate us....

No Steve, we just hate management, that's who better not wear reddit gear in public... Not the rank and file who don't make the braindead decisions that kill platforms.

[-] hyazinthe@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

I thought I was the only one thinking he is painting a clear image of the enemy. Together we will get through what they have done!

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[-] koraro@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I don't think anyone would care about someone wearing reddit gear but who the hell was doing that in the first place?

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[-] average650@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In conversation with a few others? At the prices they were talking about no one will use it. It was something like hundreds of dollars per year per user to reddit.

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public.

Lol, good ole fearmongering. Also,

The only long term solution is improving our product

Loading shit with ads is hardly improving it. I mean it will make you more money, and thats all that matters under this shitty system of ours, but thats still not improving.

[-] jzzvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago

Reddit is going to be a ghost town in a few months at this rate. If they wanted to push the website and app so hard, why not just make using a client a premium feature and charge for it? Give the users the option. Instead they had to go the worst route possible with this.

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[-] MaxPower@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

Well he threw us the gauntlet. Let's pick it up.

[-] Bautznersenf@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

Imagine trying to fight the internet...

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[-] Art3sian@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

An anagram for Steven Huffman is ‘Tuff Shaven Men’.

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

This whole statement strikes me as tone-deaf. They want to "ship" the product, but the product is just removing accessibility. It literally makes the platform worse.

Not going back to reddit. I'll manage without it.