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According to the article, Reddit has gone from 20 employees to 2,000 over the last ten years. As someone who still uses the old theme and has been conditioned to use Google instead of Reddit’s own search functionality, it’s hard to understand the additional value all that extra labor brought to users.
They added value for the shareholders, not for us.
> “We’ve had a solid first half of the year, and this restructuring will position us to carry that momentum into the second half and beyond,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an email to employees announcing the layoffs. Love the tone-deaf, shallow corporatespeak from the top as per usual.
I am struggling to think of any CEOs that don’t use corpspeak. Are there any?
Reddit is, I believe, the highest US traffic website that runs entirely on the cloud (as in they never invested in datacenters or POPs for traffic serving). To serve every single request they have to pay AWS and Fastly. I suspect that is why the per request pricing they are trying to pass off to 3rd party apps is so high. Unless things have changed since I left, it is just a highly efficient machine for shoveling inv…
The cost is nowhere near, even with sufficient padding, to what they are asking. The move is a bit too blatant and obvious a push out.
> “We’ve had a solid first half of the year, and this restructuring will position us to carry that momentum into the second half and beyond,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an email to employees announcing the layoffs, according to the Journal. I know this is corp-speak, but it still such a horrible messaging. "We are doing great, but we're still going to fire people just to please our shareholders."
Reddit is, I believe, the highest US traffic website that runs entirely on the cloud (as in they never invested in datacenters or POPs for traffic serving). To serve every single request they have to pay AWS and Fastly. I suspect that is why the per request pricing they are trying to pass off to 3rd party apps is so high. Unless things have changed since I left, it is just a highly efficient machine for shoveling inv…
I wonder why Reddit would want to charge consumers of its API, without providing any premium services like let's say, Twilio etc. Reddit must focus on monetizing its content and more strategization that will bring in more ad-revenue or user-generated monetary value rather than going after 3rd party API consumers that ended up doing a much better job of building a simple front end app for their content.
According to the article, Reddit has gone from 20 employees to 2,000 over the last ten years. As someone who still uses the old theme and has been conditioned to use Google instead of Reddit’s own search functionality, it’s hard to understand the additional value all that extra labor brought to users.
Ads. You now see more ads. They added value for the shareholders, not for us.
Reddit has one of the best awards and paid tier plans in the world for a discussion board, yet they still couldn’t break even with it.
You might love things that are free, but don’t expect them to last forever then. Nothing is free.
I made a website for the protest. Could you folks critique it for me? https://save3rdpartyapps.com
According to the article, Reddit has gone from 20 employees to 2,000 over the last ten years. As someone who still uses the old theme and has been conditioned to use Google instead of Reddit’s own search functionality, it’s hard to understand the additional value all that extra labor brought to users.
holy shit 2000!? Now I understand where all that recommendation spam is coming from
I made a website for the protest. Could you folks critique it for me? https://save3rdpartyapps.com
This is awesome. Thanks for putting it together.
Edit: One more. Is it possible to differentiate subs that have said "we're going to go private for 2 days" and "we're shutting down permanently unless changes are made"? IIRC /r/music isn't planning on coming back.