I was saying this when the protests started and was ignored.
Reddit nearly doubled their userbase after the site redesign. They know how many users don’t understand the “old” reddit ways and don’t give a shit. They don’t care that they’re losing the users that “built” the site. All they care about is engagement from Facebook-zombies who want an endlessly scrolling feed of bullshit to be angry about.
They know they have enough users who won’t care about the change to weather the storm. The quality of posts and comments will drop, spam will increase, but they don’t care as long as they have enough ad impressions to pull off the IPO and cash out.
I was saying this when the protests started and was ignored.
Reddit nearly doubled their userbase after the site redesign. They know how many users don’t understand the “old” reddit ways and don’t give a shit. They don’t care that they’re losing the users that “built” the site. All they care about is engagement from Facebook-zombies who want an endlessly scrolling feed of bullshit to be angry about.
They know they have enough users who won’t care about the change to weather the storm. The quality of posts and comments will drop, spam will increase, but they don’t care as long as they have enough ad impressions to pull off the IPO and cash out.