Paul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
Where did that Reddit AMA go?
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
There it goes, now let's talk about Rampart!
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/
Addressing the community about changes to our API

Dear redditors, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Steve aka u/spez. I am one of the founders of Reddit, and I’ve been CEO since 2015. On...

reddit
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
Doubling down.
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
"Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses”
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023
Someone needs to learn how to read the room. Damn that’s some bad PR.
Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 9, 2023

So the AMA ended up being 20k almost exclusively negative comments and 14 non answers that just pissed people off more.

Dave Chappelle has some salient advice for next time:

Show threadSophia Jun 9, 2023
@paul I couldn't believe he wanted to do an AMA in the first place. It's like he wanted to ruin his reputation even more?????
Show threadPaul Haddad 
@via r/iamverysmart
Jun 9, 2023 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadSophia Jun 9, 2023

@paul more like r/murderedbywords

Concidentally Reddit seems down lmao