Well, yeah, that's exactly what I don't understand - why the heck aren't they interested in user subscriptions. This is so incredibly short-sighted. The ad/tra

Well, yeah, that's exactly what I don't understand - why the heck aren't they interested in user subscriptions. This is so incredibly short-sighted. The ad/tracking revenues can't be more than few bucks a month per user, can it? It's, of course, "easier" to do several large transactions than a boatload of small ones, but that "easier" is just a matter of respective backend scaffolding. For large volume retail transactions Stripe built it, many others did too. Given non-zero funding, it's not like it's a rocket science really. A lot of people are very firmly hooked into Reddit. You ask them to pay - they will pay. But you start changing Reddit - their hooks will come off and they will leave. How is it not obvious to Reddit is beyond me.