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Doesn’t he realise the reddit app was a 3rd party app originally that they have made into a shit show?
Does a CEO really understand how the products that his company makes operate at the nuts and bolts scale? To me this sounds like if the CEO of GM was discussing the merits and deficits of a limited slip differential. If they know anything about it they know what some engineers dumbed down enough for him to grasp it.
If Reddit can handle being data mined by OpenAI, I'm sure it can handle a few dozen apps.
You think he posted this in r/AITA? Cause yeah you are.
The more I read from him, the firmer one thought is planted in my brain….
Fuck spez.
Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
So he'll be a leader, not a slave and as a leader, not a slave, will probably have slaves....
3rd party apps came before the official app - in fact didn't the official app start out as a 3rd-party app before it was acquired by Reddit?
Yup, Alien Blue was acquired by the Snoo Platform, Inc. and swiftly killed.
But, hey they shifted the hue of the AB logo from blue to orange and yet the official app is a dogshit compared to the AB.
Style and substance only, not proper function.
Yup, they bought it just to scrap it and write whatever the hell the current app is.
The official API access rules, still online, use an android reddit app as an example for how to select a user agent: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API#rules
It's hard to argue this wasn't an intended use-case...
Then what does it have a publicly accessible API for?
Spez is a one-trick-pony. He can only power through protests by ignoring them and brushing them off. Until now it kinda worked, until it doesn't.
It's all about the money, baby.
This is too much to believe. IMO spez is just the fall guy.This wholole shitshow leads to spez taking the blame for killing reddit, leaving, and then reddit monetizing the api at more reasonable rates than those already announced, while dying a slow death
He also said it was built by the users. Well, guess what spez, the users want third party apps.