Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.
"It's time we grow up," says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.
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It's expensive to run a company that constant wastes resources and is trying to grow beyond what it is.
I liked it better when they had one kind of Reddit Gold and displayed a progress bar on the homepage showing what percentage of daily operating costs were covered.
It's the same reason people don't show their pateron monthly incomes, they don't want people knowing how much money and potentially saying to themselves wow 3x daily cost? Seems I don't need to give money.
Yeah I get that, but I don't respect it. I show my Patreon income even when it gets large enough that people might think twice. That's their choice.
No no no but you see we need to restrict API access for the third party apps! They use just way too much bandwidth!! Apollo alone can use like 300 requests a day! We need people to use our shitty slow horrible app that uses an average of 500 requests per day. If it weren't for third party apps we (10 billion dollar company) would be thriving!
They're just greedy, the only reason the official app makes marginally more money despite using more requests is thanks to tracking