Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit "was never designed to support third-party apps" (www.theverge.com)

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The company says more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities (by daily active users) are now open.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huffman says. “It was never designed to support third-party apps.” According to Huffman, he “let it exist,” and “I should take the blame for that because I was the guy arguing for that for a long time.”

If Statement A and B are both true, is this just not the absolute failure of the former jailbait advocate as CEO? Should Reddit not have been designed to support third-party apps if you, as CEO are advocating for them? This entire interview just feels like the king incel's trying to gaslight us into believing it's a lost cause. If so, we might as well continue, eh?

Their stats page also admits that they've lost >15% of their top 5000 communities. I wonder how that'd translate if we looked at the top 100 or top 50?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just the sheer fact that they refer to a protest day as a "fun option" tells me all I need to know.

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