I'm curious if you directed the users of those subs to any particular alternative?

I mean, apparently they are already bleeding money, but I doubt that these changes are going to do much to help in that regard.

Probably because Spez is a moderator there. I can't get over how funny this is though: LLM

I had no idea that this was happening. But it makes sense with the decision they just made. I'm guessing they disabled X number of users on the mobile site that logged in, and tracked how many X users were converted to the Official Reddit App because of that.

That way they can predict how many users they will lose to the API change (roughly) and made a business calculation that the lost users were worth it. I'd be astounded if they didn't also have a sorting for 'value' of users as well and weighted the calculation with how many high value vs low value users didn't convert.

I'm not entirely sure. Seems like there will be plenty of inertia from the subreddits remaining open. I'd imagine that eventually Reddit will force them open again.

But they aren't going to be getting those moderators back on the site without some sort of change. It'll be really interesting to see how much of an impact that has.

Wild, a 17 year old game, remade in a 10 year old game. That's a ton of work and dedication from the developers of this project. Hats off to them.

That user does have a point. The higher a barrier to entry the less people you are going to get.

Though there is something to be said for the selection of people that get filtered out. While I appreciate large communities because of the variety of view points available, the quality increasing due to a barrier of entry has advantages too.

As a side note, thanks for writing up guides for people!

Wild that it's mentioned multiple times in here how the large data sets aren't really an advantage. Reminds me of Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise. Sounds like Google and OpenAI have a lot of noise right now.

At least FlyingLaserTurtle apologized. Kinda felt hollow to me though compared to what he said.

I -think- that it was to try and keep mods around by ensuring that they won't (maybe) take away their tools.

Exactly. Probably going to be some rot in the communities. I wouldn't be surprised if a few months from now we see Reddit offering more incentives to be a mod in order to entice others to take up the reigns.

They definitely know that if enough Mod's jump ship then their communities will suffer heavily. I'm going to guess that we'll see quite a few quit. There will be some that stick around holding on by their fingertips to for communities based around helping others.

But most mods aren't going to be willing to put in extra free labor especially for a company that keep signalling with actions that helping them isn't a priority.

Based on the answers I'm seeing, I'm positive that this change is a result of changing for their IPO. Lots of none answers, but they also aren't backing down on the absurd pricing.

Having been a manager at a Fortune 500 and getting announcements from Executive level leadership / giving announcement to my reports, this is surprisingly the level of competence I would expect.

Unfortunate, but also a symptom of Reddit being too big for the team to handle. The outflux of users caused by this might actually -help- Reddit in terms of figuring out their revenue stream and getting better leadership.

Sad to see this happening in real time though.