Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
There’s a great post over on that other site, from Christian the Apollo dev., where Spez is literally talking about Christian trying to blackmail him/reddit.
Unfortunately for that sad man is that Christian is in Canada, and they have 1 party consent recording, so he’s recorded every call he’s had with reddit. This includes the call with Spez where this misunderstanding took place, and Christian included not only audio of said call, but a transcript of it as well.
It’s a really bad look when you try to drag someone through the mud and are shown to be a complete idiot and liar…
As a Canadian, this makes me really appreciate our one-party consent laws even more (I’ve never had to use them myself).
Spez really dug his own hole with this one. He thought he was gonna get away with murder and now everyone knows him for the piece of shit he really is.
They may still manage an IPO, but it’s not going to be anywhere near as successful as it would’ve been if this had been handled properly. If they were concerned about Ad revenue, all they had to do was say that all 3rd party clients must serve ads to anyone who isn’t paying for a reddit premium account on top of potential app payments or subscriptions. Easy peasy. Nobody would’ve batted an eye because we’ve come to accept ads as the cost of a free service.
The end of reddit may take longer than the end of digg, but the writing seems to be on the wall now.
There’s a great post over on that other site, from Christian the Apollo dev., where Spez is literally talking about Christian trying to blackmail him/reddit.
Unfortunately for that sad man is that Christian is in Canada, and they have 1 party consent recording, so he’s recorded every call he’s had with reddit. This includes the call with Spez where this misunderstanding took place, and Christian included not only audio of said call, but a transcript of it as well.
It’s a really bad look when you try to drag someone through the mud and are shown to be a complete idiot and liar…
As a Canadian, this makes me really appreciate our one-party consent laws even more (I’ve never had to use them myself).
Spez really dug his own hole with this one. He thought he was gonna get away with murder and now everyone knows him for the piece of shit he really is.
They may still manage an IPO, but it’s not going to be anywhere near as successful as it would’ve been if this had been handled properly. If they were concerned about Ad revenue, all they had to do was say that all 3rd party clients must serve ads to anyone who isn’t paying for a reddit premium account on top of potential app payments or subscriptions. Easy peasy. Nobody would’ve batted an eye because we’ve come to accept ads as the cost of a free service.
The end of reddit may take longer than the end of digg, but the writing seems to be on the wall now.