They're tearing it down one brick at a time!
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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As if it wasn’t bad enough to ask if I want to use the default mobile app every time I go to a Reddit page on mobile. 😕
No fucking way. Dude.
What awful timing to run this experiment.
The post is over a month old, more like good timing to bring this to people's attention now haha.
The post is a month old. There was still hope they'd not mess up the api pricing
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It may be separate from the API issue, but the purpose is still the same: to monetize your eyeballs at the expense of everything else.
I'm reading this after I deleted my account. I have no regrets after reading this. Screw them.
Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I'm honest. Are they actively trying to piss off literally everyone?
They are relying on technology illiterate investors not understanding what the issues are.
Absolutely horseshit and so dumb. This just reinforces my decision to leave. I left the account open but I deleted all of my content (many years worth of posts and comments) on the way out the door.
I had no idea that this was happening. But it makes sense with the decision they just made. I'm guessing they disabled X number of users on the mobile site that logged in, and tracked how many X users were converted to the Official Reddit App because of that.
That way they can predict how many users they will lose to the API change (roughly) and made a business calculation that the lost users were worth it. I'd be astounded if they didn't also have a sorting for 'value' of users as well and weighted the calculation with how many high value vs low value users didn't convert.