What a dirty move, fuck u/spez, i will not download your shitty client
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Tiring to see reddits downfall due to corporate greed, just as so many other sites in the past. Honestly surprised old.reddit is still around, seeing how they certainly dont like users using anything but their own inferior app. While spez said it wouldn't go anywhere I have my doubts about that.
This just proves it's not about pricing, just unwillingness to let users choose.
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I think they are just trying to get rid of people that care at this point... Lol.
It’s worth noting that this post was from last month before they announced the usurious pricing of the API. However the fact that they were doing this does not bode well for people (like me) trying to avoid using their horrendous app.
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Wow..
Man, they're really trying their hardest to get rid of me.
I had no idea that this was happening. But it makes sense with the decision they just made. I'm guessing they disabled X number of users on the mobile site that logged in, and tracked how many X users were converted to the Official Reddit App because of that.
That way they can predict how many users they will lose to the API change (roughly) and made a business calculation that the lost users were worth it. I'd be astounded if they didn't also have a sorting for 'value' of users as well and weighted the calculation with how many high value vs low value users didn't convert.
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You mean the app that a significant portion of Reddit absolutely hates? Good lord. ~Strawberry
The experiment just being if you quit?
Not surprised. They need to milk every last drop of revenue from their users free content for the upcoming IPO.
Is it better to overwrite comments and then delete them, or is just overwriting with whatever message I want to leave then deleting account accomplish same goal of making comments useless.
Reddit doesn't (at least as far as I know) store a history of edits, so what is saved on the database is what your comment literally is. The reason people suggest overwriting comments is because the comment itself has value (for a variety of reasons), so overwriting the comment with something valueless (in the sense that it has no value for Reddit) is better, so the database itself is updated with that valueless comment.
After that whatever you do with the account is up to you.
Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha so Reddit can say 'hah, you used the app to look at Reddit!'?