The site is handing out Thursday deadlines for reopening as key metrics take a hit.

The site is handing out Thursday deadlines for reopening as key metrics take a hit.

  • sorenant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    135·
    1 year ago

    Imagine complaining about theoretical lost revenue to 3rd party apps when your business relies on volunteer work.

    • CosmicCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      1 year ago

      I found this to be really confusing. On the one hand, they’re losing so much revenue from 3rd party app users. On the other hand, 0.0001% of redditors use 3rd party apps. You can’t have it both ways, spez.

      • jscummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        At this point, I think the percentage he gave was a bald faced lie. Older users definitely have a way higher percentage not using the official app

        • Thereisalamp@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          Agreed. Additionally, you couldn’t breath a whisper about the official app without the thread turning into “you don’t know what you’re missing, try x,y,z app!” Which had to encourage more than a few app immigrants

          • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            At the very least, anyone who bothered investigating a 3rd party app for Reddit was probably also bothered enough to post and comment on Reddit too and potentially be a power user. That’s going to be a drain on quality content at the very least.

          • ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The sole purpose for me using a 3rd party app was finding out you could block subs.

            Switched to boost and purged all the right wing bullshit I could find

    • Hup!@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      The crazy part is Reddit had a profit sharing agreement with RIF… and was actually making revenue off it for a while. Then Spez shut it down with little or no negotiation in 2016.