Did he just try to make it sound like Reddit employees are victims of hate crimes?? LMAO

“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo reads. “We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.”

In other words, the blackout is not being taken that seriously. The culling of 3rd party apps is still happening. I hope more subreddits decide to go dark indefinitely, and that Redditors keep migrating to Lemmy.

r/programmerhumour announced they would go privately indefinitely cause of this. Here's hoping a lot more subreddits join in, and hoping u/spez regrets every dumb decision he's made in the pasts few months.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s your answer on how it’s affecting reddit. May be it’s spez just bluffing, but I hope this is a wake up call for the two day blackout subs and they do it indefinitely.

Unbelievable how out of touch they are with the community.

My desire to open Reddit compulsively "will pass" too.

Won’t pass for me. I’d rather quit social media entirely than be inundated with nfts, ads, and shitty UI. I’d pay a premium happily to not have to deal with that. But that’s not an option.

I’ll support whatever alternative seems best as long as it seems worthwhile. I like it here so far. Hope y’all stay and keep posting.

This doesn't surprise me, during the whole process they didn't even try to pretend that they were listening.

The thing that really gets me is how poorly they communicated: slandering the Apollo dev, ignoring mod's concerns, lying, not giving enough notice, and having the audacity to hold an "AMA" but answer basically none of the questions.

Like if you're going to go through with this change at the bear minimum you could be professional about it. But they way they did it was very arrogant and impatient.

This is a good thermometer reading. I'm pretty sure many communities are prepared to extend this indefinitely if current plans aren't reverted. I do believe him when he says

We absolutely must ship what we said we would.

I don't know who the angry VCs are who get to pull his strings but if this gets their attention - it may or it may not - reddit might budge on things a bit.

At the end of the day the company is hopeless to make a profit with him at the helm. This memo sounds slightly nervous and lacks confidence. He has no clue what he's doing.

While he's probably right, the blackout is giving Reddit users the chance to return to old sources of news and entertainment, or encouraging them to try new communities like Lemmy. Ideally the blackouts continue, but I think the biggest threat to Reddit is a long-game when other alternatives become viable.

That's exactly how I feel about it as well. It's not just that these guys are cartoonishly evil, they are also cartoonishly incompetent.

I have a feeling most of corporate is run by Wily E Coyote.