Bendersmember

Truck to avoiding that is to never get gold. Took me 10 years to never get gold once. I'm good at what I don't do.

Hey at least they're doing it across the board for all us plebs, that way it's fair and can affect everything.

Little late to the game on this one but I did finally get my words to reflect how and why I feel I do about this situation, I commented it recently on another post but I'm gonna drop it here again as I hope it can add to this discussion.

I quit when rif went down. I've never used an official app, desktop site, mobile site etc. Rif was Reddit to me for 10 years. Maybe leaving as a collective will make some difference, maybe not, but I'm going to start being more firm on how much I'll let companies try to push me around expecting me to just take it. They built it on our backs, then just took it away so a literal select few can cash in, when they are already filthy rich and had other options.

I've been explaining it to others as if you broke your phone. Now it's frustrating getting used to a new phone, but it has lots of new features you never even thought of that make up for the inconveniences. Sure I could go back to my old phone, it's comfortable to use, but the screen is broken and it cuts me now and again, and over time it'll cut me more often. I'd rather get used to the new phone.

This past year I've dealt with food going up, gas, utilities, rent, hell cigarettes and even beer, my fishing license went up. Every single nook and cranny they can pull a cent from you they will.
I'm done choosing to let them. If they want my data, my attention, my content, they can pull it from my cold dead hands damnit.

Ok weird ass Braveheart speech over and out.

After the whole Brock turner the rapist crusade (deserved) I've been sitting here scratching my head why spez wasn't named and shamed with his real name by the same group.

Even if you don't have shareholders yet, gotta brown nose before hand to impress them.

Solid point. One thing that these companies will realize quickly if they plan to move from ad based to subscription services is that a lot of them won't make it. Especially when the price of everything is so high. It no feasible for people to sub to 8 streaming services between film and music, add on a VPN, the odd Patreon, lots of people with ring and other camera and security subscriptions. I get that people will shuffle between services, but that might not be enough, and the more they go for the customers throat, the more likely people will realize it's a want and nowhere near a need.

I noticed it too, so its not just you. I think that the less moderated any site is, the loudest minority will make themselves heard, even against the majority. Well structured sites are worth the effort to them it seems.

Based on the article they better hope there isn't a secret Heisenberg hiding in that group!

It just feels like these massive communities are both important but also impossible to maintain and preserve properly in the current digital/market landscape
Unfortunately we don't know if it's impossible since we don't see many companies trying. Most companies are going downhill due to shareholders, then we have Reddit which doesn't even have them yet but still ruining things to prove to them they're willing to play ball.
Of all the major companies I'm aware of I think that Costco is the only one I haven't heard horror stories about in the past year. Amazing that so many companies employ pr, yet I can only think of one with somewhat good public perception.

I find it strange that today is the first day I haven't seen any links to articles about Reddit, maybe online news sites are taking the day off haha.maybe they're just waiting to have actual data before reporting, again surprising if true.

Time will tell if there's any difference due to people leaving. I think the reason I find it interesting and others do as well is because we aren't given any hard data on the actual amount of users left, how many decided to stay and only lurk going forward, how much of the user base were heavy contributors etc. The pushback also was adamant that there would be zero change, and if they're right then they're right, not going to hurt my feelings.
While I think it sucks that they chose to go the direction they went, which with how much I hate ads forced my hand to walk away, I'm not upset and deeply affected to my core, I know Reddit will keep chugging along without me.
Whole point of this post was to discuss the changes that happened due to us leaving and if they were noticeable.

I don't expect anything positive to come out of Reddit after the direction they chose to go. Spez has proven who he is and what's important to him and that won't change. I was just curious as to what effect no 3rd party apps was having on the user experience, since they kept saying it's only 10% and that they didn't care and wouldn't be noticed.