“We have noticed that by accident we provided a user-friendly functionality without trying to extract money out of you. We apologize for the convenience and promise that we will make sure it never happens again”
So like the rest of Amazon then? Never used kindle, but Amazon for physical goods has been a dumpster fire for a while - completely overrun with dropshipped garbage, to the point it’s actually difficult now to find quality stuff in the sea of “brand s” with random string of capital letter names, all using the same poorly photoshopped image…
I feel you - reddit was my daily staple for more than 15 years. Can’t remember exactly, since my account is 15 years, but I browsed without it for a long while before that. And I will miss it, dearly. I’m super sad and angry that spez and the rest of his merry band of morons decided to screw it up this bad. I’ll miss some local communities, some gaming ones, some silly video ones, and just the general feeling that any time I go to the bathroom there’s going to be tons of new content for me to browse through.
Sure this place will grow too, I’m sure of it, but it will take a lot of time. It’s pretty damn hard to change my habits after 15 years - RiF is my most used app BY FAR, and I’m super sad to see it die like this…
Not sure if a percentage growth of subscribers is the right metric - a growth from 1 to 3 subscribers looks much bigger when expressed in %…
I visited one of the communities listed, and it literally only had 3 posts - a welcome one and two pinned ones. All by the same author. That’s not exactly what I’d call a fast growig or trending community…