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Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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SilverBirch wrote: post #23

Reddit really is desperate for this IPO isn't it. This pricing decision is a total debacle. They're clearly going to try and tell a story about how their data set is massively valuable for AI (it isn't) and that they've got it under lock and key (it's already been crawled by every major player in AI) so that they can get a totally unrealistic valuation at IPO. It makes sense, imagine how incredible it would be if you…

>alright, we'll let you fix our broken shitty site but only if you take a vow of poverty.

What a fantastic way to put it, thinking about it so much of the 3rd party tools for reddit are about fixing the site. Bots, because moderation tools aren't powerful enough for the job, RIF in the browser because even old.reddit is kinda crappy, and 3rd party mobile apps because the 1st party one is notoriously bad.

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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dmix wrote: post #38
SilverBirch wrote: post #23

Reddit really is desperate for this IPO isn't it. This pricing decision is a total debacle. They're clearly going to try and tell a story about how their data set is massively valuable for AI (it isn't) and that they've got it under lock and key (it's already been crawled by every major player in AI) so that they can get a totally unrealistic valuation at IPO. It makes sense, imagine how incredible it would be if you…

> try and tell a story about how their data set is massively valuable for AI (it isn't) How would it not be valuable?

It's been scraped already by every major player and likely will continue to be scraped because it has to be public in order for the site to function

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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broodbucket wrote: post #33

Reddit could have done zero development in the past decade and the website would be more usable today, not less

I don't agree, anecdotally there were a lot of people who bounced off the site because they didn't "get" the UX and even back then we had to fix the site using RIF. Now, was that difficulty a useful filter? Perhaps.

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by fullshark »

_fat_santa wrote: post #67
SilverBirch wrote: post #23

Reddit really is desperate for this IPO isn't it. This pricing decision is a total debacle. They're clearly going to try and tell a story about how their data set is massively valuable for AI (it isn't) and that they've got it under lock and key (it's already been crawled by every major player in AI) so that they can get a totally unrealistic valuation at IPO. It makes sense, imagine how incredible it would be if you…

Makes me wonder if their IPO will be a flop as a result. If you're a registered investor that would be part of the IPO, I would assume that you are looking at public discourse in addition to whatever IPO docs Reddit might give you. So what does it say about a company about to IPO that's telling you everything is ok on their whitepapers and docs but you look online and see a full blown revolt by their userbase. I hope…

It won't flop, but they won't hit their projections during the frothiest times of the market and their last funding round. The AI FOMO bull run just shows how much money there is on the sidelines desperate for anything to invest in with growth potential.

If the metrics look anything like this: https://backlinko.com/reddit-users they will get investors

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by MrStonedOne »

yardstick wrote: post #28

Stupid question but I’m out of the loop here. What’s the main beef with the Reddit site and app? Is it just accessibility and moderation tools or something else? I do use RES in desktop, but I mostly use it via the official mobile app these days. I used to miss old.Reddit.com but now I’m rather indifferent.

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Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by Loughla »

prepend wrote: post #21

This is interesting. I wonder if this is future hope for accessibility and will be legislated by the Americans with Disability Act. There’s already a portion called “section 508” [0] that requires software and web sites to be accessible, but it only applies to federal procurement. An extension could be that apis are required for accessibility and that they apply to all businesses over a certain size. While Section508…

I doubt it. There is nothing that states API is required for accessibility. There are common, easy to implement design tools to improve accessibility.

Look at the WCAG guidelines (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) for exactly what you should be doing (also for a look at what a truly accessible site looks like).

These are not difficult things to implement and do not require third party, or even first party apps to do. They can easily be integrated into any website.

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by josefresco »

Is Elon running this company? It's straight out of the Elon/Twitter playbook. Announce a new policy so horrid almost everyone is appalled. Wait a short period of time and then make a small/token exception for a sympathetic community and reap the media rewards. Wait a short time and then roll out former said horrid policy with less outrage because of fatigue and the newly muddied waters. Brilliantly evil.

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by kelipso »

bloopernova wrote: post #69

The way reddit seems to be unable to implement useful and complex new features leads me to wonder what their development practices are like. It's like they can only create simple new things, but more complicated stuff is beyond them. Complex features like moderator tools, rate limiting, accessibility, a working video player, and a rich text editor. Are they only hiring the cheapest least experienced developers? Too f…

Has reddit ever had a good reputation in the tech world? I'd rather work a pornhub than reddit and would take a pay cut to work at all of the other big social media companies than reddit. The engineering team seems terrible looking at the website and all its iterations, you'd have to work for people who had hosted all of those repulsive subreddits, the company itself seems very unstable. Probably moot would be more successful IPOing 4chan.
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