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The only thing more embarrassing than Reddit's behavior is that after 18 years and hundreds of millions in funding they can't make an app or website with a bett
by duped 3y ago
The only thing more embarrassing than Reddit's behavior is that after 18 years and hundreds of millions in funding they can't make an app or website with a better experience than what someone can do in their basement with just API access.
Part of me thinks that one of the reasons they want to kill 3rd party apps is because they're embarrassed that they're all better than whatever Reddit has come up in the last decade.
Maybe they should listen to mods and users instead of trying to push whatever they want down users' throats, because it's not going to last much longer.
- khangaroo 3y agoProbably because third-party apps aren't optimized to shove as many ads down the user's throat as possible.
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- samstave 3y agoThis is precisely what they thought they were doing. They are thinking that there is "money on the table" without their ability to monetize their traffic... As opposed to thinking of reddit as a fucking internet UTILITY -- they are doing the same VC / MBA bullshit as every single other tech company.
- graypegg 3y agoTo be fair, there is a difference between a for-profit company that everyone thinks is a utility, and a public utility. However, they’ve shot themselves in the foot. For generating more ad revenue here IMO. The sort of ill-will they’re creating will probably drive away the top-posters and moderators that make the site worth visiting. Is ad space on a site that’s contracted by 1% of its users going to tank in value? No probably not. But is the 99% going to stick around when the content they came for is missing or not moderated? Ehhh… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
- notatoad 3y agonah, their apps aren't just shitty in the normal commercial way. they're shitty in the non-functional way, non-money-making way. like not being able to figure out how to play videos.
- hinkley 3y agoEven old.reddit.com was having problems playing videos for a bit. It's all clown college over there and this latest saga is their new graduate degree program. I'm afraid to see what the doctoral program will bring.
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- LookAtThatBacon 3y agoThey killed Alien Blue to create the objectively worse Reddit app, despite the aforementioned funding and presumably skilled devs working there.
- Nition 3y agoThey did make i.reddit.com which was a nice, fast, usable mobile site with no ads, and no app required. They shut it down two months ago.