"We absolutely must ship what we said we would" Yeah right, everything else they have promised never led to anything, but this, this we have to push through :p
„The only long-term solution is improving our product“ What I don’t get is in what way these changes are supposed to improve Reddit. Especially considering that how pissed off many volunteers that Reddit absolutely needs are. Such an unlikeable twat…
„The only long-term solution is improving our product“ What I don’t get is in what way these changes are supposed to improve Reddit
That's just normal corpo-babble.
Companies always claim to put the customer first and the turn around and increase prices or monetize previously free features.
He's worried that his employees might get poached now. If I worked there I'd be thinking about leaving and if I was trying to hire at another company I'd be trying to steal whatever talent they have over there.
Okay let's not kid ourselves. I know reddit is quiet right now but the entire website is angry at them. Their inbox is likely full of death threats. People are searching for their employee information.
I get that it's fun to hate on spez and all but people have hunted employees down for less before. So yeah, while this is a justified protest and I dislike spez, we should all want to keep reddit employees safe right now. Most of them aren't the problem.
It's hard to wrap my head around the idea of sending death threats, people walking around with so much hate filled up that they lash out at the most detrimental things.
It's a corporate decision, protests (subreddits going dark) and constructive critiscm from the userbase is the only way to make the voice heard.
I'm happy that another platform (Lemmy) existed which is more suitable and designed like the old.reddit.com layout to migrate to. Otherwise this ordeal would really suck.
He even claims that around a thousand subreddits went dark. It was 8,000. Hundreds are already pledging to stay dark indefinitely, including huge ones like r/aww and r/videos.
I wouldn't be surprised to see sockpuppet accounts starting / running some kind of "r/videosnew" and "r/awwnew" if they stay offline for a longer period of time
I think he's just making it clear that only those with many, many users matter to him, because individuals generate little value for him. He probably only counted the most popular subreddits as worth noticing.
Right, which is why I can understand it as a "just in case.." type thing, but I really haven't seen anyone all that upset about it, not to the point where they're threatening violence against Reddit staff (which wouldn't make sense anyways, since this is clearly a decision made by the executives, and not regular employees).
No, I don't think so. This is coming from the same guy who claimed that the Apollo dev tried to extort him for $10 million and threatened him, when the Apollo Dev had the phone call recorded and proved that he only offered to sell the company.
He's feeling threatened and trying to make the users participating in the blackout look bad.
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