Don't forget he even named one of his children "X".
I was an early adopter of T9 typing on my Nokia back in the day. When I finally got a smartphone, I found a keyboard app that had T9 as an option and used that. When Swype first came out, I couldn't believe that another typing system could actually beat the speed and ease of T9 typing.
I've always preferred to type in full words and sentences, and I'm a good speller, so most of the reasons other people don't like swipe typing don't apply to me.
Half-chub-ware.
Lurkers by definition have no impact, besides their potential to eventually become a creator/participant. Having a high ratio of voters/commenters to creators is more important to surface quality content.
Oh, it's gonna take a lot longer than a couple weeks, unless all the Reddit refugees leave in that time.
The Google Play listing says "contains ads" and "in-app purchases" just like Boost for Reddit, so I assume that means the same ad-supported model with pay to unlock additional features and remove ads. Though that could just be leftover code from the Reddit version.
Crossfit montage!