The company says more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities (by daily active users) are now open.
I mean, this is just an outright lie right? Multiple devs have talked about how the Reddit team has been in contact to warn in advance of feature changes, and they have most certainly been in the team’s mind over the last few years from the time of Alien Blue to today.
The actual pricing that Reddit was going to charge ($12k/50million calls) was never shared until 30 days before it was set to go live. If the pricing hadn’t been modeled after Twitter and been more reasonable, then 3rd party app developers wouldn’t have been happy about the 30 day notice but it would have at least been possible to hit that deadline.
Isn’t the official Reddit app also just a third party app that they bought 😅. It really starts to sound like he just tries to say anything that could help divide uninformed users from third party app developers, even if it makes no sense and everybody with some knowledge about Reddits history knows it is a lie.
Yes it is. They took a wonderful and well created Alien Blue and turned it into the hot garbage you see today. Reddit went years without their own app and ruined the one they purchased.
He’ll say whatever as CEO. “News organisations” will megaphone out what he says and that drown and dissenting voices.
I really owe Steve one for opening my eyes to Lemmy. I’ll certainly never go back to Reddit, other than perhaps the occasional Google search for an IT question somebody solved 10 years ago.
But as far as actively contributing? Having a Reddit account? Nope, I’m done. I was very active on Reddit, and I haven’t posted since the announcement.
But despite me and many others leaving, I really feel for Christian and the other developers. They really got fucked. The 30 day turnaround was an absurd notice to give someone, and Steve didn’t have any defense to give for that, according to this article. He seems like a really ruthless, uncaring person.
Didn’t the 3rd party apps predate the official one by several years?
Not only that, their official app was a third party app that they bought and rebranded.
