I don't think the blackout alone will end Reddit. That's something that a person like Huffman is incapable of grasping, to his company's detriment. The more invested you are, the more screwed you feel. The people who do the real contributing-posting, modding, defining the culture and building the communities that Reddit benefits from-are, as far as I can tell, more likely to get a lot angrier about abusive corporate nonsense, simply because they're more invested. But I also think that a lot of the people who put up with it are the passive ones who don't really contribute much to communities anyway they're just there. They want a lot of the SoMe interactivity, like their silly chat and so on, but I'm not sure who would ever want a Facebook with total strangers instead of people you actually talk with. Now I get why reddit wants to move away from the page-reload.
Netflix aftermath sucks reddit professional#
HN is the perfect example of that, there has been a lot of hobby JS frontends from people, but they all work worse than the real deal and somewhat hilariously they work better than reddit's professional attempts. I work a lot with Typescript and also React myself, and I love the language, so it's not because I dislike that sort of thing, but I think a list of links with comments just works better without being put into a virtual DOM or even just JS. On a computer I see no benefits from any of the redesigns compared to. It's not because I have some sort of aversion to change, well, I guess I'm really uninterested in downloading apps considering I didn't even bother to try things like Apolle to see what the fuzz was about, but their various attempts at redesigns have been so bad that I would rather use than them on mobile, even though it's impractical. I even use it on mobile where it's not exactly practical. I was on reddit before they tried updating their designs, the only reason I'm still there is because they still have the frontend available. Is it sustainable? Since when did that question mattered to the captains of the industry? "Reddit" as a brand and company matters to the users for its leaders and investors, it's just a money making instrument that takes time to mature, but exists to be squeezed, discarded and replaced by something else. It doesn't feel as bad when they're optimizing for future value extraction, but that time is past, and Reddit is currently squeezing value out of its cattle-base. To them, it's an optimization problem, and it's been apparent for a long time now that the optimum point is usually "the most shitty and abusive possible version that still clears the 'fit for purpose' bar" (the end point is more obvious when you look at goods and services that have been around for a couple decades or more, and thus subject to decades of "value engineering"). They care about the value extracted from us in aggregate. Nobody at the top cares if you or me are having a nice experience with the site/app. Even worse than that - they're stochastic cattle.
For Reddit (as well as Meta and other social media platforms), the users are cattle. Why do people assume Reddit C-suite and investors are being stupid or narcissistic here? That would make sense if the relationship between them and the users was a friendly one.
They'll then discuss all the advancement in cattle fencing and barn construction that happened in the 30 years since. What they'll be talking about is how Reddit had too many holes in its fence, and all its cows escaped. Then, 30 years from now, people will still talk about how Reddit self-destructed when they decided they needed to control the user experience and forced everyone to use their app.
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