I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn’t want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

  • AttackBunny
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    221 year ago

    If you had asked me a month ago, I’d have said absolutely, as long as it keep Reddit alive.

    Now? Absofuckinglutely not. I’m a firm believer in putting my money where my mouth is. I haven’t accessed Reddit (intentionally) since the 11th. And my original plan was to see how it all played out, and still probably browse only when I’m at my desk, on my laptop. Watching it all unfold, I’m absolutely disgusted with the choices they are making, and more so with how they are treating everyone, privately, and publicly.

    I won’t be going back to Reddit. And I’m ok with that. It was honestly already a bit too……money-grubbing anyhow, and all this last week just solidified that for me.

    • LifeInOregon
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      81 year ago

      The intentionally part is my only difficulty. I’d not realized until last week just how many search results were Reddit threads. I need to start excluding Reddit from my search results.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
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        Yeah, google search is a pain without reddit, I setup a WIndows VM to try Bing Chat, I’ll see how it goes.

        I don’t use ChatGPT because I don’t want to give them my phone number, Bing Chat only requires an email and that’s fine for me (got a throwaway one just for that).

      • AttackBunny
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        31 year ago

        I’ve clicked a few links on here, not realizing they would go to Reddit. Only to immediately close the screen, when I realized.

        And on the 12th, until I moved Apollo off my homescreen, I opened, and then immediately closed the app.

        I’ve been a lot more careful now. I also agree that google is more shit without Reddit. Google had already become pretty useless, imo, anyhow. With all the sponsored shit. I also think there was at least a period of time on the 14tb that google excluded all Reddit responses. I searched for something, fully expecting Reddit to be at the top. I scrolled for a while, and there was no Reddit results. It was weird.

      • Thanks4NothingOP
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        21 year ago

        The fiasco has broke google results since the protest…I am not sure Google is going to keep prioritizing those results of it ends in a poor user experience.

      • Badabinski
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        11 year ago

        Same, Google searching for anything has been a massive pain in the ass ever since the 11th. I should find a plugin to auto redirect from Reddit to the latest wayback machine snapshot of that post.

    • Thanks4NothingOP
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      21 year ago

      I was on board during reddits first year. I deleted my apps the moment sync announced it was ending service. I don’t intend to go back - this post was just moreso me trying to see if this option would have been the “right” way to handle things.