I’ve been a redditor for ~14 years and knew reddit was dead ever since they scapegoated ellen pao to make a bunch of shitty changes. And the only reason I’ve been able to use reddit this long was old.reddit. They are so insistent on change for the sake of change, and change for the sake of satisfying investors and advertisers. They don’t give an iota of a fuck about their actual users.
You know how spez was bitching that reddit never turned a profit? I’ve said before it’s his fault for never understanding reddit. Reddit’s treasures are it’s community and it’s commentary. Instead of focusing on those, he’s spent tens, maybe hundreds of millions, trying to force reddit into the latest techbro fad - reddit crypto or reddit NFTs or whatever. And then he absolutely fucking panicked once he realized that he’d paid for multiple AI companies to make off with multiple entire copies of one of reddit’s treasures (which probably cost tens of millions in itself), and then alienated it’s other treasure when he kept doubling down in his panic.
Yeah. Putting all the effort into useless stuff like NFTs, crypto, or really even the whole terrible New Reddit into first making the actual experience better would have been much better. Make people pay for your awesome features after you actually have awesome features.
Instead, they made the user experience worse and worse, and repeatedly broke the tools people used to make it convenient. Not to mention all the bots and bribing mods to promote Subreddits…
Perhaps New Reddit was supposed to be their big break. Too bad it sucks so badly.
absolutely shocked! who could seen that coming?
Someone using old.reddit who can still see the sidebar warning?
I’ve been a redditor for ~14 years and knew reddit was dead ever since they scapegoated ellen pao to make a bunch of shitty changes. And the only reason I’ve been able to use reddit this long was old.reddit. They are so insistent on change for the sake of change, and change for the sake of satisfying investors and advertisers. They don’t give an iota of a fuck about their actual users.
You know how spez was bitching that reddit never turned a profit? I’ve said before it’s his fault for never understanding reddit. Reddit’s treasures are it’s community and it’s commentary. Instead of focusing on those, he’s spent tens, maybe hundreds of millions, trying to force reddit into the latest techbro fad - reddit crypto or reddit NFTs or whatever. And then he absolutely fucking panicked once he realized that he’d paid for multiple AI companies to make off with multiple entire copies of one of reddit’s treasures (which probably cost tens of millions in itself), and then alienated it’s other treasure when he kept doubling down in his panic.
Yeah. Putting all the effort into useless stuff like NFTs, crypto, or really even the whole terrible New Reddit into first making the actual experience better would have been much better. Make people pay for your awesome features after you actually have awesome features.
Instead, they made the user experience worse and worse, and repeatedly broke the tools people used to make it convenient. Not to mention all the bots and bribing mods to promote Subreddits…
Perhaps New Reddit was supposed to be their big break. Too bad it sucks so badly.
I still can’t believe they paid they much for Alien Blue, just to deliberately go out of their way to make it so much worse.