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you can chase profits but execution is key which reddit struggles with as you alluded with their shoddy video player. there are several ways they could have mo
by dvngnt_ 3y ago
you can chase profits but execution is key which reddit struggles with as you alluded with their shoddy video player.
there are several ways they could have monetized 3rd party apps while not angering the developer community that helped them become popular.
I and many long-term redditors would have paid premium to use it but they're burned up so much good will.
even chasing profits is dubious. they could have made onlyfans years ago. they could have made a tiktok (they can't), but the CEO lacks vision so anything they do will be late and substandard.
- natch 3y agoI don’t see that developers helped reddit become popular. It was already popular. When due to needing to balance the books you have to end what was indirectly but effectively a river of revenue, of course a few people are going to be upset.
- dvngnt_ 3y agothe first reddit mobile apps were 3rd party apps including alien blue which was then purchased by reddit. mobile makes a majority of their and most consumer sites, so i'd argue they owe their mobile lineage to 3rd party apps because they were there when reddit wasn't
- natch 3y agoIt’s a website though.