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A hot guess: they measured how many users they're able to lose and decided to go with the plan. The remaining part will be enough to run the business for a whil

by pndy 3y ago

A hot guess: they measured how many users they're able to lose and decided to go with the plan. The remaining part will be enough to run the business for a while, because they're of younger generation that has been conditioned to ads already and they simply don't bother about em or use of any 3rd party alternatives

smsm42 3y ago
They think "they may be whining now, but in a year they'll forget anything ever happened and we'll get the promotions for implementing our brilliant plan". It may also be true. Or it may ruin the viability of Reddit as a business, in which case the persons who decided it will fail sideways and move on to receive the same salary somewhere else.
Balgair 3y ago
Honestly, I hope they measured something. However, looking at the app, the moderation decisions, the 'firing', and just about everything that the admins do, I know they haven't measured anything. I've worked in enough BigCos, startups, middle sized, &c. companies to know that Reddit's management, like literally every other company's management, is just making stuff up on the fly and hoping it works. Because that's all that they have ever done.
- vkou 3y ago
  They probably measured click-through rates between users using the official app, versus third-party apps. That's easy to measure.
raydev 3y ago
> A hot guess Why is this even a guess? The rumors of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated. I'm shocked at the number of people here who don't understand that Reddit has thousands of SWEs and PMs and Directors now, and they've definitely run the numbers on many outcomes. Reddit has no viable competition for the service it provides. And it's no longer a space for techies and nerds, Digg v2 is something that happened in the old world. There's a bunch of people using Reddit exclusively on their phones via the first party app, and I'd bet it's approaching majority. Reddit is not going anywhere.
- CamelCaseName 3y ago
  > Reddit has thousands of SWEs and PMs and Directors now, Reddit has ~1,000 employees total.

by pndy 3y ago

smsm42 3y ago

They think "they may be whining now, but in a year they'll forget anything ever happened and we'll get the promotions for implementing our brilliant plan". It may also be true. Or it may ruin the viability of Reddit as a business, in which case the persons who decided it will fail sideways and move on to receive the same salary somewhere else.

Balgair 3y ago

Honestly, I hope they measured something. However, looking at the app, the moderation decisions, the 'firing', and just about everything that the admins do, I know they haven't measured anything. I've worked in enough BigCos, startups, middle sized, &c. companies to know that Reddit's management, like literally every other company's management, is just making stuff up on the fly and hoping it works. Because that's all that they have ever done.

vkou 3y ago
They probably measured click-through rates between users using the official app, versus third-party apps. That's easy to measure.

raydev 3y ago

> A hot guess Why is this even a guess? The rumors of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated. I'm shocked at the number of people here who don't understand that Reddit has thousands of SWEs and PMs and Directors now, and they've definitely run the numbers on many outcomes. Reddit has no viable competition for the service it provides. And it's no longer a space for techies and nerds, Digg v2 is something that happened in the old world. There's a bunch of people using Reddit exclusively on their phones via the first party app, and I'd bet it's approaching majority. Reddit is not going anywhere.

CamelCaseName 3y ago
> Reddit has thousands of SWEs and PMs and Directors now, Reddit has ~1,000 employees total.