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...

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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 threadPaul Haddad Jun 10, 2023

I don't think a 2 day Reddit blackout is going to do anything. Guessing they'll just wait it out and do nothing.

If it was set up as "until things change” it'd be a lot more interesting. Mostly because I think Reddit would panic at some point and do something really stupid, which would be fun to watch.

Show threadPaul Haddad Jun 10, 2023
/r/Videos is doing it right. And the FAQ has exactly what I think will happen.
https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/145vns0/the_future_of_rvideos/
The future of /r/videos.

Hello everyone, I’ll try to keep this short as I know there’s been a lot going on over the last few days. [When we made our announcement last...

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Show threadChris Wu 🪐
@paul just saw that AppHookup is doing that also.
Jun 10, 2023 at 4:11pmWeb