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Lol. People will definetly leave. Once I cannot use my fav 3rd party app I'm done. That's the end of reddit for me. We'll see if after the purge reddit will sti
by x86x87 3y ago
Lol. People will definetly leave. Once I cannot use my fav 3rd party app I'm done. That's the end of reddit for me. We'll see if after the purge reddit will still have enough critical mass to keep going but acting like this before an ipo is nuts.
- myspy 3y agoI left when Twitter killed off Tweetbot and I‘m happy I did it. Colleagues of mine don‘t want to go without their dev bubble though. It‘s time for a better tool to catch-up to the newest stuff.
- anonred 3y agoI also left Twitter when Tweetbot died, but only because I can’t use Twitter without a chronological timeline and keyword filtering. My impression is that third party Reddit apps had some nice quality of life features, but their main purpose wasn’t to literally alter the underlying content. Happy to be proven wrong though.
- satvikpendem 3y agoPeople who use third party apps are power users, most users simply don't care. I also highly doubt power users will leave, they say that but they're the ones that use Reddit the most, so it's very likely they might take a break for a while but begrudgingly come back in a month or so.
- x86x87 3y agoI guess we'll see. Anecdotally, I will stop using it and have been using it since the beginnings. Same sentiment from all long term users. We'll juat see
- yanderekko 3y agoYes, more than zero people will leave. I'm sure Reddit has already factored this in to their analysis.
- x86x87 3y agoHow likely do you believe their analysis sucks and they didn't properly account for the 2nd order effects of this exodus?
- zirgs 3y agoI don't want reddit mods leaving and ruining other sites. They should stay on reddit.
- lumenwrites 3y agoBut where will they go? If there was a good alternative, it would make sense, but there isn't. You don't "just quit" heroin, people who like reddit and use it a lot will continue using it.
- x86x87 3y agoYou're right that usually you need a new addiction but it doesn't have to be the same type of addiction. I used to like reddit and use it a lot. After all the dick moves over time I am not sure I like it anymore