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Hacker News: Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app or else not use Reddit (old.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app or else not use Reddit (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, I don't believe that in order to be profitable, the system needs to suck. What if reddit built a really great app and offered subscription tiers that remove ads and give you some extra gold?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shit, all they had to do was offer the api to paid subscribers to use any 3rd-party app the user wanted. They could also offer two apis to developers - one that’s free with injected ads, and one that’s paid with no ads. Everybody wins, everybody gets “a piece of the pie.” But noooooo, they wanted it all-or-nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah they could have just moved the api costs down to the user level, charged like $3 a month, and while I would have bitched a bit, I would have just paid it and carried on. They just really handled this about as poorly as they could have.