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I guess you brought it right to the point: Reddit has never grown to a company it’s „dorm room shitshow“
by alexruf 3y ago
I guess you brought it right to the point: Reddit has never grown to a company it’s „dorm room shitshow“
- madeofpalk 3y agoIsn't "reddit isn't a real company, it's a dorm room shitshow" supposed to be the appeal of reddit? A 'real company' wouldn't have a free-for-all API to allow third parties to leach their ad revenue.
- sofixa 3y ago> A 'real company' wouldn't have a free-for-all API to allow third parties to leach their ad revenue. Or they might have realised that third parties are crucial to their success (they have the stats, they know what % of traffic, commenters, power users, etc. are using third-party apps) and instead added more constraints around the API, like also serving ads (like Telegram), lower rate limits for unauthenticated users, forcing oauth etc. Instead of going the nuclear path of making any third party downright unviable and thus forcing them to shutdown.
- lt 3y agoRecently I read Reddit has over 2000 employees. I can’t begin to imagine what they possibly do.