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Reddit crushed its biggest protest ? They’ve never been in a worse position in the websites history. They’ve betrayed the community and made it clear that the only thing that matters is they get their bag. Fuck that. Reddit started with a community this size and blew up. Nothing is more telling than those YouTube videos showing the rise and fall of website popularity from the birth of the internet to now. The websites that were the titans of yesterday are ghost towns right now. Companies that at one time commanded near total control are barely fragments of their former glory if they even continue to exist at all.
What’s the long term plan you rejects, continue to shit on people and ignore their wishes? On a long enough timeline that will see your golden goose fall off the page and cease to be relevant.
Will Reddit go away? No. But I think you’ll see it’s market share continue to fall as people shift away to better options provided by people that aren’t douche bags.
Well, more specifically, they pissed off their community, and then infuriated their mods, community developers, and enthusiasts, and basically pushed them away. That’s the part of the community that more or less makes Reddit what it is. It’s dying - or at the very least, what it once was is gone for good, and it’s becoming something… less.
Exactly. Reddit was great because of an bunch of people doing heavy lifting in the background. Reddit Enhancement Suite is still needed after almost two decades because Reddit devs can't make a good website
Lol still it blows my mind that, at least on desktop, you are FORCED to use a 3rd party tool suite to make the interface not be complete ass… and that it’s been this way for YEARS.
The users at large don't care, they will, but it will take time. From reddit inc's pov they won. Were here now, and I love it, but it's a small victory (for now)
People never stopped using digg. I’ve got uncles that still use their aol account. You’ll never see a site like Reddit disappear but there’s a small group of power users that keep places like that interesting and valuable. Piss them off and they will dip quickly.
The bottom line is the community exists for its users, not the other way around. Literally every other major social media site sees their users as a way to make money. So far I’ve seen none of that here and as long as that’s the case I’m here for the long haul.
People stopped using Digg after v4 and it died. Digg sold for $500k in 2012–down from a valuation of $175M+ only a couple years prior. The buyers kept the name but changed it to a curated content aggregator without community comments, etc.
My point is that the site still exists and people continue to use it. It didn’t die completely and even if most people bailed on Reddit it would continue to exist and have a user base
Let's see what it's like by next year
I wonder if they'll finally have their IPO then.
I would be extremely surprised if it goes well, if they do. Huffman said something in an interview suggesting that they are no longer in any hurry, and investors are likely to recognize this particular dumpster fire for what it is. The financial community has its delusions, but they’re usually not the ones techbros like Huffman have.