Change for the sake of change. If it didn't look significantly different, users would question why the upgrade. Doesn't matter if they made significant, positive (being charitable here) change if the user experience didn't change. Been there, done that.
Banzai51
joined 1 year ago
For home use, maybe. It will upset corporate customers to no end with a 2-3 release cycle. The app vendors won't keep up, keeping the workplace a mess and well behind the new release curve. Deal with this on the Windows server side of things all the time. We're trying to drag our app vendors off Windows 2012, and they are only coming kicking and screaming. Most only support up to 2016, which we find insane.
Too many people turned off telemetry data. They couldn't get enough of it to just upgrade under the 10 banner. They're forcing more and more online bits and slowly not letting you turn the other stuff off.
AMAs haven't been the same since the fired Victoria.
We need a community dedicated to "explain it like a drag queen beef."
Lemmy. The mobile apps just aren't there just yet.
Right, I am powerless to stop Reddit. I'm not so powerless that I won't say bye to Reddit. Now I'm here and I'm liking it more.
It's like having a security team.
Security team to Joe Blow tech: Hey, you shouldn't do that.
Joe Blow's Manager: Hey Joe Blow, deploy that asap.
Joe Blow deploys.
And to pile on top, Reddit has been around since 2005. Why is there a SUDDEN and sloppy push towards profitability? It's like someone clued them in just recently that an IPO means you'll have to publicly show profit/loss. The way they've gone about it suddenly and sloppily doesn't scream long term plan, but instead a crash change.
At the current price he wants? Yes. Because it would still represent an attempt to kill off all third party apps. Reddit wants to look like the good guys in having a price structure, but it is a transparent bit of trickery. Because the whole thing isn't about API costs to Reddit, but gathering all the data to sell about its users and to push ads. Reddit is attempting an IPO. And shareholders will demand a path to profitability, unlike Silicon Valley investors.
Would honesty and transparency made the protests smaller? On some fronts yes. But many Reddit users would have been pissed with the model they want to use (facebook). So maybe the protests still would have been as widespread. But we could have skipped the whole, "Reddit CEO disrespecting unpaid mods and Reddit users" phase.
Because the point isn't the costs of the API. Reddit wants all its users to go through the official access points, the Reddit app and the redesigned web. This will allow them to hover the maximum data to sell and ensure ads flow.
The guy that sold Bannon the user data he wanted under the table?