On: Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks

[TX81Z]

It’s like he’s implying it’s the third party apps fault he can’t make money on a user base that big with that much engagement. Which is an…odd take.

[LeeroyWasHere → TX81Z]

He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic. Non stop contradiction and lies.

[shiftpgdn → LeeroyWasHere]

Major subreddits I’ve seen run polls show that less than 3% of users are using third party apps.

[bmarquez → shiftpgdn]

You can't vote on a poll using a 3rd party app. For example, if you click on a poll using Apollo, it opens the Reddit website as a new window and you have to log in again and vote through that website.

This level of friction means I've never voted in a Reddit poll unless I was on a computer, and many other 3rd party app users probably act similarly.

[rapind → bmarquez]

It's impressive this many 3rd party app users went through the hassle IMO (3% of the whole).

[hysan → shiftpgdn]

Isn’t polling one of the features that Reddit doesn’t provide an API for? I think that would skew poll results heavily. I know Apollo can’t do polls and it’s one of the reasons I never partake in them on Reddit.

[dvngnt_ → shiftpgdn]

PC gaming over 20 percent

[busyant → LeeroyWasHere]

> He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic.

I wish I had known about the Apollo app before all this drama. I would have gladly paid because the official mobile and iPad apps are atrocious.

[megablast → LeeroyWasHere]

What lie? He didn’t say that. He didn’t imply that.

[yanderekko → TX81Z]

I don't read that as the implication at all. He's saying that Reddit needs to make changes to become profitable, while making a jab at the fact that some of the 3P apps have a financial interest in preserving the status quo.

[TX81Z → yanderekko]

Ok, even in that scenario if you’re this many years in, have this many users, this many daily posts, and your underlying tech is a CRUD app, it’s not because you have a free API. It’s because you royally screwed up many, many, many things.

[yanderekko → TX81Z]

>Ok, even in that scenario if you’re this many years in, have this many users, this many daily posts, and your underlying tech is a CRUD app, it’s not because you have a free API.

Well, the argument is that it at least partially because they have a free/cheap API. And they're willing to stake a lot on betting that changing this will pay off.