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They removed premium accounts, removed people buying awards before going ipo too.

thot_experiment 3y ago
Ahahah seriously? What incredible mismanagement, I met someone who worked at reddit on the product 2 years ago at a superbowl party and they made fun of me for wanting to use the old.reddit.com site over the new one. It was wild, I really expected a wry smile like "yeah i know it sucks but we gotta do it cause the execs want it". It was crazy to me how much they didn't understand their userbase or product.
- rightbyte 3y ago
  Organisations can't pretend. They will start believing their own lies.
- 0xy 3y ago
  It's been 5 years and they haven't figured out how to make a video player yet. Neither the old version or the new version work. Click to play, nothing. Click again to play, it plays for 3 seconds then stops? It's incredible how poor reddit engineering is, but it was dwarfed by management ineptitude.
  - junon 3y ago
    Way more than 5 years. Reddit's video player has been terrible since I can remember.
chii 3y ago
why would they remove revenue sources before going IPO? that seems pretty counterintuitive.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  They removed it about 8 months ago, and then 4 months ago they brought it back but with a contributor program. TL;DR you can cash out karma and gold for real money now: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating...
gigglesupstairs 3y ago
Awards still exist. They just streamlined them. Instead of 100 different awards which cluttered the interface right below the post title, they replaced them with 6-7 variations of gold and simplified the UI and look & feel.
- rightbyte 3y ago
  I think making the post look like a pimped Pakistani truck was much of the lure. Making a number go from 4 to 5 probably does not have the same lure for the whales.
  - gigglesupstairs 3y ago
    Thing is not many were buying expensive awards when smaller much much cheaper awards were available at their disposal. They perhaps found from their research that giving so much choice to users was working against them in this case and took this decision.
    - RichEO 3y ago
      This kind of logic leads to websites riddled with dark patterns. Just because something works in an A/B test doesn’t make it a good decision.
      - gigglesupstairs 3y ago
        As much as I deride any kind of awards except classic gold, I think this was one of their better decisions all things considered.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Yeah, the main thing is that 1) they don't show on old reddit (I see this as an absolute win) 2) You can't Gold NSFW subs, because.... 3) A number of Gold upvotes + posting karma can be exchanged for real world money. Yes, this is probably even worse than what you are imagining. To give a few details of this wonderful idea: - They say you need to "qualify", but the bar is 10 gold upvotes + 100 karma in 12 months. 100 karma may as well not be a barrier. - They have pretty weak justifications for how to fight Spam/bots... because they've done a horrible job the last decade fighting spam/bots and it's only gotten worse last year. There's no incentive for them to fight bots anyway. - Mods can participate in this. And it is not based on their moderation behavior https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating... There's not much upside here as a user unless you need yet another hustle in life.

Ahahah seriously? What incredible mismanagement, I met someone who worked at reddit on the product 2 years ago at a superbowl party and they made fun of me for wanting to use the old.reddit.com site over the new one. It was wild, I really expected a wry smile like "yeah i know it sucks but we gotta do it cause the execs want it". It was crazy to me how much they didn't understand their userbase or product.

rightbyte 3y ago
Organisations can't pretend. They will start believing their own lies.
0xy 3y ago
It's been 5 years and they haven't figured out how to make a video player yet. Neither the old version or the new version work. Click to play, nothing. Click again to play, it plays for 3 seconds then stops? It's incredible how poor reddit engineering is, but it was dwarfed by management ineptitude.
- junon 3y ago
  Way more than 5 years. Reddit's video player has been terrible since I can remember.

chii 3y ago

why would they remove revenue sources before going IPO? that seems pretty counterintuitive.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
They removed it about 8 months ago, and then 4 months ago they brought it back but with a contributor program. TL;DR you can cash out karma and gold for real money now: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating...

gigglesupstairs 3y ago

Awards still exist. They just streamlined them. Instead of 100 different awards which cluttered the interface right below the post title, they replaced them with 6-7 variations of gold and simplified the UI and look & feel.

rightbyte 3y ago
I think making the post look like a pimped Pakistani truck was much of the lure. Making a number go from 4 to 5 probably does not have the same lure for the whales.
- gigglesupstairs 3y ago
  Thing is not many were buying expensive awards when smaller much much cheaper awards were available at their disposal. They perhaps found from their research that giving so much choice to users was working against them in this case and took this decision.
  - RichEO 3y ago
    This kind of logic leads to websites riddled with dark patterns. Just because something works in an A/B test doesn’t make it a good decision.
    - gigglesupstairs 3y ago
      As much as I deride any kind of awards except classic gold, I think this was one of their better decisions all things considered.
johnnyanmac 3y ago
Yeah, the main thing is that 1) they don't show on old reddit (I see this as an absolute win) 2) You can't Gold NSFW subs, because.... 3) A number of Gold upvotes + posting karma can be exchanged for real world money. Yes, this is probably even worse than what you are imagining. To give a few details of this wonderful idea: - They say you need to "qualify", but the bar is 10 gold upvotes + 100 karma in 12 months. 100 karma may as well not be a barrier. - They have pretty weak justifications for how to fight Spam/bots... because they've done a horrible job the last decade fighting spam/bots and it's only gotten worse last year. There's no incentive for them to fight bots anyway. - Mods can participate in this. And it is not based on their moderation behavior https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating... There's not much upside here as a user unless you need yet another hustle in life.