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 threadJohn McCrylinJun 10, 2023
@sdw can someone tell me what's going on?
Show threadPaul Silver
@JohnMcCrylin @sdw Reddit are starting to charge for API use, it was previously free. They made this change at short notice. The API is used by all mobile apps that show Reddit to you. The cost to use it is extremely high, many times higher than for similar sites. This has caused so much bad will towards Reddit the CEO had a public Q&A session about it. It went as badly as previous times they've gone against their users
Jun 10, 2023 at 1:49pmWeb
Show threadJohn McCrylinJun 10, 2023
@paulsilver @sdw I see... Thanks for the clarification. The push back is to be expected