The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
I check in about once a week or two to make sure comments haven’t reappeared and take 5 mins to see if things are changing. I noticed a number of my old favorites that are small to midsized definitely have less upvotes on top posts and generally…I think that’s a fair proxy for decreased user activity. I think declaring that “reddit won” ignores the degrading quality and lower activity levels…its a weaker platform now.
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Yeah. If it’s even possible for an IPO to be cursed, Reddit’s IPO surely is. Everything they do now just reeks of desperation.