Insightful comment I heard from someone else - once Reddit reopens the subs and the third-party apps have shutdown, moderators won’t be able to moderate properly and we’ll see all sorts of terrible spam. It’s likely the largest subs won’t be able to cope.
This by itself might not be able to hurt the IPO, but if they IPO after July 1st, it might be a whole new ballpark. (In other words, the lack of effective moderation - caused by the loss of the third-party apps that helped so much with moderation - might ruin the subs and cause Reddit’s value to drop.)
I moderate a somewhat busy subreddit, the main tools that I use are probably not going to be affected by the API changes. But I only moderate while on desktop. Moderation via Reddit’s app was horrible, and the third party app I use is somehow worse.
Even though the tools I use shouldn’t be hit by the API changes, I’m still going to scale back my reddit presence considerably. Reddit betrayed my trust here, who knows what they’ll do next.
Insightful comment I heard from someone else - once Reddit reopens the subs and the third-party apps have shutdown, moderators won’t be able to moderate properly and we’ll see all sorts of terrible spam. It’s likely the largest subs won’t be able to cope.
This by itself might not be able to hurt the IPO, but if they IPO after July 1st, it might be a whole new ballpark. (In other words, the lack of effective moderation - caused by the loss of the third-party apps that helped so much with moderation - might ruin the subs and cause Reddit’s value to drop.)
I moderate a somewhat busy subreddit, the main tools that I use are probably not going to be affected by the API changes. But I only moderate while on desktop. Moderation via Reddit’s app was horrible, and the third party app I use is somehow worse.
Even though the tools I use shouldn’t be hit by the API changes, I’m still going to scale back my reddit presence considerably. Reddit betrayed my trust here, who knows what they’ll do next.
@chaogomu
@Deliverator @abff08f4813c
This is exactly it for me. Trust is easy to lose, and difficult if not impossible to regain once it’s gone. And that’s precisely what Reddit did.