I’m betting that he’s recorded hundred of hours so they can keep using him for the next decade.

The fact that there never was a limit of sub counts is part of why the turnover we expected never came. At some point, you have to be a deeply unwell narcissist to willingly mod hundreds of subs. I’m reminded of Laurelai.

I haven’t been able to post a comment on The Verge since the redesign. Huh.

Anyways: All of spez’s spedding can be explained easily enough: He is in IPO exit mode. He wants out of this business so he can go be a piece of shit.

He really thinks he can get the valuation on reddit. I’m here to tell him he’s delusional. The window came and went with the interest rates. An adjusted value with a new S-1 is going to be a serious write down on the real value and that’s when his days are numbered.

He basically upset 5% of the user base and even that small amount has done irreversible harm to reddit. Everyone knows he wants out. Everyone knows he’s fudging MDAUs. Everyone knows reddit has never been profitable. Was it worth it, you tumbling duckweed?

I stopped caring the moment they dropped PvE.

Can’t engage with the site if they block me from engaging with it.

We’ll quickly see if reddit does what every other company does with chargebacks and bans accounts that do it.

I’ve had people working at Reddit tell me that old.reddit is so buried in there its removal would be hard. Which doesn’t change the fact that they would pull it out of necessary. I’m guessing they’ll find the routes for it and 301 anything to the new reddit. Easy enough change.

Oof. Even Google gives its products a longer runway than reddit does.

All these high visibility features shutting down has to come from a single point. I’m guessing they are cutting features with high AWS costs.

With the collapse of social media, there’s not going to be many new users to claim.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the investors behind the scenes aren’t already interviewing spez’s ouster without his knowledge.

If only his common sense applied to running reddit.

Paying their users for content is actually a good thing on paper. In fact, it counteracts the largest argument over API charges that I had: That they were gonna make more than per MDAU via ads, but have the audacity to keep all of it, while not even giving the users that provide it nary a crumb.

The problem with this is: What is a fair price for user generated content? What is a fair redistribution based on DAUs and activity? Is there even a fair model? How could you guarantee it when there will be cabals to provide content at a certain level, as was seen when blogrings tried it in the late 2000s?

Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer, because reddit will always give the least amount they can endure, especially as they are not profitable. And when they are, they will bargain down because they need cheap UGC to function. Such a system is probably going to be unfair by philosophy and design.

They had the good part of a month to understand.

Agreed, just because spez is getting repeatedly dunked on, he wouldn’t want to prevent them from paying him for the pleasure.

As we saw with Reddit gifts, anything that could help develop an audience or good publicity is not destined to last forever.

Neat. Where does your ONT connect to?