The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious::undefined

  • blueskiesoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    Remember kids, don’t let the news tell you how to feel. Watch out for words in the title like “outrage” and “furious”. Anger increases engagement and they know it.

  • Cyber Yuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I don’t get it. Wasn’t the whole API thing supposed to be about money? Reddit is killing one of its sources of income!

    That doesn’t even make business sense! What the hell is going on inside Spez’s mind?

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I’m gonna make an outlandish prediction that Spez will no longer be CEO of Reddit Inc within the next six months. He’s made some incredibly bone-headed decisions and if the IPO does happen, Reddit are either going to be valued really low to the point where they could face a hostile takeover from a more competent tech giant, or Reddit’s existing shareholders are going to oust him in a revolt.

    Either way, Spez has pissed off a lot of angel investors and has driven a good chunk of people towards Tildes and Lemmy. When this place (and other Lemmy instances) looks like an increasingly viable alternative to Reddit, it’s going to eclipse the main site once we get decent apps like Sync and Boost.

  • arcturus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    on one hand, reddit gold is useless and a waste of money imo

    other hand, they just keep going for making the most controversial decisions with zero thought lmao

    • anonono@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      reddit gold used to be how the community helped with server costs back when reddit had only a few employees

    • Skellymax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      It might be that they’ve given up on the visuals and are now making all the changes all at once. They’re ripping off the bandaid overhauling their site and are banking that the damage will be recover in time.

      With the current state of dissatisfaction from the community, now might be a good time to plow through and make all the changes that are already undesirable for the old user base.

      Maybe even more of these big changes to come? More popcorn for the Fediverse I suppose.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Sure but they could have left the awards in place for a while even if no more could be added. And instead of making everyone lose all the coins they already spent money on, they could have allowed those coins to be used for whatever the next thing is. Just throwing out everyone’s money is never a good practice.

      Like what if Minecraft decided they were going with a new monetization strategy and said everyone’s minecoins would expire in a couple of months and any skins, texture packs, etc., you bought with them will also be gone. And no refunds of course.

  • draxil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, not furious. But I guess I don’t count as a reddit user any more. Still, did anyone ever care about these features?

    For me these already came in after I wished the reddit devs would just do maintenance.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Are they furious? Sure. But I feel like anyone still on Reddit just doesn’t care what they do, they’ll still be there scrolling.

  • superkret@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    All those users complaining about their coins going to waste and I’m wondering why the fuck you’d ever spend real money on that.
    That’s like paying for porn.

    • Chailles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I mean, it’s less about the coins and more about something that has an equivalent monetary value being wiped without any compensation whatsoever.

  • SexualMastadon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Dude, this is just laughable. For those who are left, what are you sticking around for?

    Also, here’s my theory: these idiot product managers, fresh outta b-school didn’t think to interview their most engaged users. Instead, they randomly polled people. That’s the only way I can fathom their takeaway from users was “it’s too much clutter” instead of, “this drives engagement”.

    • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have 3 reasons I still visit… But I am cutting back.

      1. My local subreddit is still way more active than the equivalent here in the fediverse (but I do get to interact with some familiar usernames in the local Lemmy community)

      2. It’s still a decent news aggregator, IMHO, ahead of Lemmy for keeping up with what’s going on in the world at a high level

      3. NSFW content is still lagging behind on Lemmy, as well … I’m using a revanced app and I’m a mod of my own private sub so it still works but I fully expect this to be killed in the near future… In fact, I fully expect that by the time a reddit IPO happens they will have completely killed all the NSFW subreddits (even on the official app and desktop browser)

      The site is definitely in a death spiral but, as of today, I still find it useful for certain things.

      Fuck them though… They won’t get a dime in ad dollars from me and the demise can’t come soon enough at this point.