I can’t wrap my head around this, it seems so bizarre. The only reason I’m here now is because I joined Apollo right after Reddit changed its app to remove the sort by rising feature. It completely changed my experience on the app for the worse and I sought out an alternative, and I know I’m not the only one that had this complaint. I was a faithful Reddit user/poster on the official app for 6 years until just a few months ago. Why would they make their app less user friendly a few months before announcing the crazy API changes. They drove me away from their app and then drove me away from the site altogether.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? It just makes no sense to me
I think you hit the nail on the head. I can understand this position from the investor’s perspective. From a lean-startup mentality you toss what doesn’t make money, even if you don’t want to.
Spez is acting like he has no choice to ignore his marching orders, but he’s not a crowd pleaser. He can’t execute this strategy.
I’m guessing we’ll hear from a new reddit CEO not too long from now, who’ll dial things back, calm the seas, and then do the same thing but more quietly.