sdwJun 9, 2023

Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remarks from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership?

Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months. Imagine the CEO of Facebook or twitter not posting for a year.

Reddit communities should go dark to demand this guy leaves. This is some of the most incompetent management I’ve seen.

Show threadPatton
@sdw I think all this emotional reaction is unhelpful. The reality of how a startup must grow almost dictates this kind of action at this time. App devs absolutely should have anticipated that the cost of providing APIs would eventually require some costs to pass along to them. Not having planned, it comes across as bratty and naive to complain like this. The wiser and more constructive response would be to quietly work with Reddit and help figure out ways to minimize cost increases and/or grow revenue in other ways. If Reddit can’t eventually be profitable, then the communities lose anyway.
Jun 10, 2023 at 1:38pmWeb
Show threadjamiemgrayJun 10, 2023
@pattonadams @sdw I genuinely don’t see that reaction from developers. There is an openness (certainly seen from @christianselig back in April when this was first announced) to make paid access to the APIs work. What has been an issue is the cost being far greater than expected, but more so the attitude towards developers from Reddit around the transition. This is a clear lack of direction, planning and management which would have stopped any emotional reaction before it even started.
Show threadsdwJun 10, 2023
@pattonadams respectfully, this seems like a reaction to my tweet instead of the situation at large. I’d recommend reading Christian’s post.