I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    I honestly would have been happy to start paying some money to reddit directly or via a sub to rif. lmfao RIP

    • @rjc
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      172 years ago

      This, they could have just said API access now requires premium. I’m sure some people would have been pissed, but not nearly as much as the current situation.

      If it was just “Pay $50 per year and continue to use and enjoy any 3PA of your choice”, I might have paid rather than jumping ship.

      • Temple Square
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        62 years ago

        Agreed. RiF was my world. I literally took the news re: API changes worse than when my girlfriend broke up with me (shortly before). My stages of grief have centered more around reddit than her, lol.

        Now Reddit have shown they are toxic. And I no longer wish to add value to their platform.

        I miss some subs, but honestly this place is FUN. It’s so old school! And it’s great to see the activity increase daily.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        If they’d handled it better, I’d definitely have considered it. Reddit has added a lot of value to my life. But now, after spez has personally insulted the 3pa devs and called the discussion “noise”? Now, you couldn’t pay me $500 to make spez even $1 richer.