falcon

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In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout in c/technology@beehaw.org
[โ€“] falcon@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With a subreddit that popular, I wonder if doing that will just turn it into another Digg/HD-DVD situation. Protest posts inundating the subreddit until it's essentially shut down again.

a megathread for developments on Reddit and with third-party Reddit apps in c/technology@beehaw.org
[โ€“] falcon@beehaw.org 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This whole situation feels like a short term revenue grab. I bet shareholders are trying to inflate the numbers in order to cash out in the IPO.