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CEO also 10x’d the headcount. and spent significant funding on buying Alien Blue and then ruining it. and spent significant resources on a new UI design that
by dijit 3y ago
CEO also 10x’d the headcount.
and spent significant funding on buying Alien Blue and then ruining it.
and spent significant resources on a new UI design that is near universally reviled.
Its not good enough to say you are not profitable, when you are a significant cause
- OnlineGladiator 3y agoWhoa there cowboy - next you're gonna say something crazy, like we should hold the CEO accountable for his own incompetence. Obviously it's the users who are wrong!
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoIn Soviet Reddit, customer always wrong!
- rjbwork 3y agoAlso spent 10s of millions on a highly suspect acquisition that has something like a .01% customer retention/conversion rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash
- weaksauce 3y agoi read 50 million
- Semaphor 3y ago> and spent significant resources on a new UI design that is near universally reviled. Not that I don’t agree with your post, or how bad the redesign is, but is that really universal? With statistics I’ve heard about only 5-10% of people using old? And with the current protest, I’ve even seen comments supportive of the blackout by people using new and the official app.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoFor a non default, you-need-to-know setting, 5-10% feels really significant.
- vdqtp3 3y ago> only 5-10% of people using old Probably a significant percentage of the people who were using old. Everyone else started with new.
- flaminHotSpeedo 3y agoI think a major factor in the scope of this blackout is that there's a lot of 3p mod tools that, per my second hand understanding, are somewhere between "significant QOL improvement" and "indispensable". So even mods who use official apps/new website/etc would be affected, and they also hold the keys to the kingdom in terms of making it happen
- dijit 3y agoA lot of people simply didn't know old existed. I actually had reddit gold primarily because of the old UI.
- eek2121 3y agoOld isn’t great either (if it were responsive it would be), and reddit constantly pushes users to new.
- mock-possum 3y agoAw man I forgot about alien blue!!