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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark (uk.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It might be as Louis Rossmann said, it was a mistake to say "we're going black for two days. They should've just says "were going black until you cange the rules again".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots are just going dark indefinitely so hopefully it hurts them. I went to look on there this morning and their server response is worse than Lemmy atm so I dunno what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Loading full web pages takes more server processing power than API access.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Abstaining for two days is enough to break a habbit.

Reddit's traffic might not recover for a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course it's up to the user to take action and abstain but if I open Reddit I see posts and can mostly scroll through my feed like it's any other day. If I wouldn't have known subreddits went private (and they didn't sticky a message) I might have not even noticed since I'll just see posts from subreddits who don't participate instead. The power that makes Reddit so good is working against the community effort right now.

The first thing I did this morning was open BaconReader from my homescreen before realizing what day it was. I replaced BaconReader with Jerboa to try and break the habit. It's not easy and I think Reddit knows it.