Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
It was never truly about them not making money though was it?
The whole thing would not have escalated, if they’d actually reacted to the problems raised, e.g. the astronomical API fees and the situation of mod tools and accessability tools.
Only when shit was already hitting the fan they responded to 3rd party devs, who tried to reach out to them for a month already.
Even if they’d postpone the changes and start listening to the raised problems now, they scorched a lot of earth and very well knew that would happen.
It was never truly about them not making money though was it?
The whole thing would not have escalated, if they’d actually reacted to the problems raised, e.g. the astronomical API fees and the situation of mod tools and accessability tools.
Only when shit was already hitting the fan they responded to 3rd party devs, who tried to reach out to them for a month already.
Even if they’d postpone the changes and start listening to the raised problems now, they scorched a lot of earth and very well knew that would happen.