โฒ 1159 โผ Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website (www.huffpost.com) submitted 3 years ago by halo5@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world 355 comments fedilink hide all child comments Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...
[โ] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (3 children) Well there is also human cost for development, PR etc, which also probably costs a lot permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [โ] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) That would be where that 10 mil figure would have come from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] rolaulten@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago No. $10mm/year for cloud spend is totally reasonable for a website the size of reddit. Honestly it's lower then I would expect. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] linearchaos@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago Yeah, is not the cost he's charging 3rd party, it's the expected lost ad revenue. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] DulyNoted@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago I'll admit I'm not entirely well versed in this, but what development? Is the API being continually worked on? I'd imagined it was relatively stable, especially given how awful Reddit has traditionally been with any kind of feature development. Hell, they couldn't even make their own app, they had to buy Alien Blue and then drive it into the ground for $$$ permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) That would be where that 10 mil figure would have come from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] rolaulten@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago No. $10mm/year for cloud spend is totally reasonable for a website the size of reddit. Honestly it's lower then I would expect. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] rolaulten@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago No. $10mm/year for cloud spend is totally reasonable for a website the size of reddit. Honestly it's lower then I would expect. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] linearchaos@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago Yeah, is not the cost he's charging 3rd party, it's the expected lost ad revenue. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] DulyNoted@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago I'll admit I'm not entirely well versed in this, but what development? Is the API being continually worked on? I'd imagined it was relatively stable, especially given how awful Reddit has traditionally been with any kind of feature development. Hell, they couldn't even make their own app, they had to buy Alien Blue and then drive it into the ground for $$$ permalink fedilink source parent
