The site is handing out Thursday deadlines for reopening as key metrics take a hit.

  • @sorenant
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    1 year ago

    Imagine complaining about theoretical lost revenue to 3rd party apps when your business relies on volunteer work.

    • @CosmicCat
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      471 year ago

      I found this to be really confusing. On the one hand, they’re losing so much revenue from 3rd party app users. On the other hand, 0.0001% of redditors use 3rd party apps. You can’t have it both ways, spez.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 year ago

        At this point, I think the percentage he gave was a bald faced lie. Older users definitely have a way higher percentage not using the official app

        • @Thereisalamp
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          141 year ago

          Agreed. Additionally, you couldn’t breath a whisper about the official app without the thread turning into “you don’t know what you’re missing, try x,y,z app!” Which had to encourage more than a few app immigrants

          • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠
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            1 year ago

            At the very least, anyone who bothered investigating a 3rd party app for Reddit was probably also bothered enough to post and comment on Reddit too and potentially be a power user. That’s going to be a drain on quality content at the very least.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            The sole purpose for me using a 3rd party app was finding out you could block subs.

            Switched to boost and purged all the right wing bullshit I could find

      • @Ddhuud
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        51 year ago

        Bots don’t use 3rd party apps.

    • Hup!
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      181 year ago

      The crazy part is Reddit had a profit sharing agreement with RIF… and was actually making revenue off it for a while. Then Spez shut it down with little or no negotiation in 2016.