What Reddit fails to understand with their decades of industry experience and 2k employees is that without their users, they don’t have a product. Moderators work for free. Creators work for free. These people didn’t do it for Reddit. They did it for you and me.
And then like three developers in their spare time ate their lunch.
Your point stands, but just wanted to point out that the lemmy devs have been working full time on this for the last 3 years, funded by https://nlnet.nl/
It looks like it’s back, but are they really? One of the posts from the last 12 hours is “Thanks, I hate the new Sonic” with a still from the movie before they reworked it. I smell a repost bot in action to make it look like there’s more traffic…
I think you accidentally responded to the wrong comment. I assume you meant to respond to the comment below asking whether spez was with Reddit since the beginning.
Are Swartz and Ohanian still around? Are they all trying to cash in?
I can understand wanting to get retirement money out of your long-term project, but we’re not obliged to stick around and assist in the degradation of a once-great platform.
However, they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great, and that’s what actually matters in the coming IPO. They also understand that these actions will hurt the site and that the fallout will come at a notable delay. However, by the time it’s clear the site has only a few months to live, the previous owners have already taken the money and left. At that point, it’s a problem for the new owners. Let them figure out how to fix a sinking ship.
What Reddit fails to understand with their decades of industry experience and 2k employees is that without their users, they don’t have a product. Moderators work for free. Creators work for free. These people didn’t do it for Reddit. They did it for you and me.
And then like three developers in their spare time ate their lunch.
And yet, with all that supposed experience they still fail to maintain a decent platform.
There’s a reason nobody uses their official app.
Most people use their official app
Most people probably just interact with it through the browser via google searches.
Nah, nearly 90% of mobile users interact with Reddit via the official app (most people use Reddit on mobile devices).
Damn, it’s so strange knowing that it’s so bad and yet people use it. Goes to show just how important the content is even with such terrible UX.
most people don’t even bother trying it, from the few that I’ve seen that do converted real quick.
I meant any browser including phones.
Your point stands, but just wanted to point out that the lemmy devs have been working full time on this for the last 3 years, funded by https://nlnet.nl/
I had no idea about that foundation - it seems like they’ve done a lot of great work. Thanks for sharing!
I think they do understand this, to a point. That’s why they keep threatening their mods instead of outright removing them.
Except they have outright removed a bunch. All but two of the r/TIHI mods were purged, as an example.
Their reopening efforts aren’t looking so hot…
r/tihi as of [Sat Jul 8 19:30:18 ~EDT 2023~] looks like its back to pre protest affairs
It looks like it’s back, but are they really? One of the posts from the last 12 hours is “Thanks, I hate the new Sonic” with a still from the movie before they reworked it. I smell a repost bot in action to make it look like there’s more traffic…
He was a Co creator.
I think you accidentally responded to the wrong comment. I assume you meant to respond to the comment below asking whether spez was with Reddit since the beginning.
Yeah, I did
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for spez being an open raging asshole.
Did spez create reddit or did they just hire him?
He’s one of the founders of Reddit. The other two being Aaron Swartz and Alexis Ohanian.
Are Swartz and Ohanian still around? Are they all trying to cash in?
I can understand wanting to get retirement money out of your long-term project, but we’re not obliged to stick around and assist in the degradation of a once-great platform.
Swartz unfortunately died in 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz?wprov=sfti1
Whoa, I didnt know that guy was involved with reddit. He’s the anti-spez.
He’s one of 3 founders iirc
However, they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great, and that’s what actually matters in the coming IPO. They also understand that these actions will hurt the site and that the fallout will come at a notable delay. However, by the time it’s clear the site has only a few months to live, the previous owners have already taken the money and left. At that point, it’s a problem for the new owners. Let them figure out how to fix a sinking ship.