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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)

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[–] deaconblue@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Does a CEO really understand how the products that his company makes operate at the nuts and bolts scale? To me this sounds like if the CEO of GM was discussing the merits and deficits of a limited slip differential. If they know anything about it they know what some engineers dumbed down enough for him to grasp it.

[–] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open, according to a fact sheet shared by the company on Thursday. In the fact sheet, Reddit writes that there are more than 100,000 “active communities,” that the company sees 57 million “daily active uniques,” and that there are more than 50,000 daily active moderators. "

This is why we need it to be indefinite.

[–] ZooGuru@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

You think he posted this in r/AITA? Cause yeah you are.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

If Reddit can handle being data mined by OpenAI, I'm sure it can handle a few dozen apps.

[–] heyfluxay@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The more I read from him, the firmer one thought is planted in my brain….

Fuck spez.

[–] tangentism@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”

So he'll be a leader, not a slave and as a leader, not a slave, will probably have slaves....

Sauce (9th paragraph)

[–] jcd@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This is too much to believe. IMO spez is just the fall guy.This wholole shitshow leads to spez taking the blame for killing reddit, leaving, and then reddit monetizing the api at more reasonable rates than those already announced, while dying a slow death

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

3rd party apps came before the official app - in fact didn't the official app start out as a 3rd-party app before it was acquired by Reddit?

[–] danielton@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yup, they bought it just to scrap it and write whatever the hell the current app is.

[–] VulcanSphere@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yup, Alien Blue was acquired by the Snoo Platform, Inc. and swiftly killed.

But, hey they shifted the hue of the AB logo from blue to orange and yet the official app is a dogshit compared to the AB.

Style and substance only, not proper function.

[–] cereal7802@lemmy.game-files.net 2 points 2 years ago

Then what does it have a publicly accessible API for?

[–] Nicenightforawalk@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t he realise the reddit app was a 3rd party app originally that they have made into a shit show?

[–] luckystarr@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Spez is a one-trick-pony. He can only power through protests by ignoring them and brushing them off. Until now it kinda worked, until it doesn't.

[–] person594@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The official API access rules, still online, use an android reddit app as an example for how to select a user agent: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API#rules

It's hard to argue this wasn't an intended use-case...

[–] paulie420@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

It's all about the money, baby.

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