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Bracing myself for the [deleted] [deleted] [deleted] everywhere.
Why delete when he can just edit the comments? Lol.
Unless they're going to come out and say "Belated April Fools! Ha ha!", I don't see how this is not going to be a dumpster fire
Oh, it's far, far too late for that. Apps and subreddits are already shutting down in advance. It won't kill Reddit most likely, but the quality is going to go way down in about a month.
They're going to IPO. This is the whole reason for Reddit's existence up to this point. Nothing the users do will possibly stop this; the users are what is up for sale. Of course they are going to be unhappy, they're about to get exploited. That's been built in already.
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Man, this whole API thing really makes me think of how much of a shithole the web is, still after all those years.
I basically have to buy a keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution if I have to buy a smartphone, all because the software for it is less than optimized crap that mostly just spies on you for the sake of ad revenue, and then leaves garbage all over the system it barely ever cleans up. A wonderful package for a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU paired with at least 3 GB RAM (if that's even enough today) that you almost certainly can't use with any comfort to browse the web because almost no one who pays big money to their devs cares that these devs build a proper mobile version of the website - which is part of nearly every webdev interview anyway, and for what, just to make me download the app anyway? What a fucking joke, honestly.
Web on desktop is just as much of a disgrace for all the bloat.
Funny you mention the resolution because in the 90s we had 640x480 which was way smaller than what cell phones have now and we still managed to have very functional web. Yeah the fonts weren’t as pretty and pictured had jagged edges but it worked and it was great!
Exactly! Screens are so big now, they should pack so much real estate, but they just don't most of the time, and it's not even because of human eyesight limitations.
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It’s pretty much guaranteed that AMA is going to go over very, very poorly. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out people aren’t happy about this! I’d think of this as a “why bother” situation usually but I get the feeling spez is looking for attention/validation.
I think it's going to be a honeypot intended to draw out the critics. Their accounts will be banned and their comments hidden within minutes of saying anything even remotely critical.
Can't wait to speak my mind and let them ban my 16 year old account.
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What will immediately become ‘The Roast of Spez’ might be the last funny thing ever posted to Reddit at this rate to be fair.
Going down in flames. I like it.
I really don't see how can this go well. On the other hand, Reddit was never shy of manipulations, so I'm expecting some shady practices...
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Can someone please set up c/fuckspez, and scrape every comment from reddit today that contains the words "fuck /u/spez"?
Comedy gold in the making
Let's not forget the time Spez untracably edited a user's comment, only admitted it after being caught, and then joked about it. If he breathes, he lies.
I think we're all getting a little distracted here, let's refocus on Rampart...I mean, API pricing...
This is going to be a SHIT SHOW.
Even before the API debacle, Reddit has had some serious issue, and every one of those issues is u/spez. He can't just fight his way through this. The incentive to leave has always been there, and now he's pushing us over the edge, and he's gonna try to win us back with some empty words.
This is the same guy who stealth edited a comment of a user he was angry with and then justified his decision by saying he grew up being a troll on the internet. Leave the troll's playground and watch it crumble. Reddit isn't spez. It's all of us.
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I'm sure it's gonna be an absolute disaster. I can't even fathom why they would think this is a good idea right now. Probably some roundabout bullshit about pleasing investors.
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Oh man, I'm making popcorn for this, it's going to be a complete trainwreck.
Someone had to beat Electronic Arts' Battlefield II comment eventually
For those who do not know, it's the most downvoted comment on reddit.
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I mentioned this in an adjacent thread, but as much as I hate downvoting in principle, I will gladly downvote that AMA out of principle.
And have popcorn ready 🍿
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This sort of circus is what happens with communities led by corporate greed. I’m taking a deep breath and I’m letting go.
Finding questions he actually answered in this thread is quite difficult, so it's easier to just look at his comments: https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/
He will only answer planted questions. Mark my words.
He will edit the questions he doesn't like
Abso-Freking-Lutely is not going to answer random questions like an AMA. He will anser some planted questions and then will dissapear, and tell some news organization or make some tweet about how he had to leave early because of all the negativity and the bridaging and the people swearing at him, and how we would have loved to stay otherwise and answer real questions.
It feels so surreal to watch this train wreck in real time. This is a chief executive officer?
Waiting around for the shitshow. Reddit has been dying way before this API change. Moderation has been absolute shit and he has done nothing about it.
He has serious guts to be doing an AMA.
Unless he's using this opportunity to repeal the API changes or officially resign as CEO and put somebody more competent in charge, I don't see this going well.
Spez should honestly learn to read the room.
I partially agree with you that he's got guts, but I think more so that you hit the nail here:
Spez should honestly learn to read the room.
I think there may be something genuinely not right with his sense of social awareness. I'm not a ~~doctor~~ psychiatrist, etc., but when I read the post today from iamthatis about Apollo shutting down, the quoted text that came from spez really felt defensive to me.
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I wouldn't be shocked if there is only comments from suspiciously young accounts that get addressed, posts like "How are you so brave to get up lead us to the promised land every day sir?" and "I don't have a question, I just want to thank you for saving me from the scourges of NSFW posts", while all the real questions are silently absent.
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LMAO
spez is a clown
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