We need as many options so that this market can get jump started. My risk adverse brain wins out over my nerd brain on this one. I love the idea but want a professional product that isn’t priced by space karen so affordability can increase.
No shit hey. Fucking rocket appliances apparently. Charge me $4 for premium and give devs 3 months to implement the changes or something. It feels so blindingly simple that this who mess is mind numbingly stupid.
It's stupid but you have to keep in mind Reddit's execs are liars. The API users aren't costing Reddit money and they're not the reason they have profitability problems.
Reddit wants to wrap all their content in a mobile app. There they can force ads without the option to blocking, they can force (paid for) "suggestions", and they can vacuum up all that sweet personalized data from every user.
Quick napkin math shows that they’re currently making about 10 cents in ad money per active user per month. Any subscription would bring an order of magnitude more income.
