Oh man, I'm making popcorn for this, it's going to be a complete trainwreck.
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Someone had to beat Electronic Arts' Battlefield II comment eventually
Hey, potential investors, look at this upward trend in user engagement in the last month!
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I mentioned this in an adjacent thread, but as much as I hate downvoting in principle, I will gladly downvote that AMA out of principle.
And have popcorn ready 🍿
Even the AMA announcement is at "0" (so probably in the thousands negative, didnt check). I'll also check in with some popcorn. =)
I'm gonna get popcorn and nachos!
He will only answer planted questions. Mark my words.
He will edit the questions he doesn't like
Abso-Freking-Lutely is not going to answer random questions like an AMA. He will anser some planted questions and then will dissapear, and tell some news organization or make some tweet about how he had to leave early because of all the negativity and the bridaging and the people swearing at him, and how we would have loved to stay otherwise and answer real questions.
Oh, this is going to be fun to watch. Better get some popcorn ready. My guess is that 99% of the comments will be about the move to kill all 3rd party apps and mod tools. Those comments will of course be upvoted to the top and then ignored by spez.
Oh this should be some top tier entertainment. I’ll go back to Reddit for a day to join the fun!
Right? There's no way in which this doesn't end poorly for them. Nevermind that they started this debacle by shooting themselves in the foot, they just keep gleefully shooting it even more, it's insane. Either the investor money is such a huge pressure that they don't care, or they just completely lost touch with reality. Or both.
I'm gonna grab some popcorn tomorrow, this will be a cool friday night tragic comedy to watch.
Reddit CEO, u/spez, will be here tomorrow to host an AMA about the latest API updates, including accessibility, mod bots, and third-party mod tools.
Note how they somehow left out 3rd party apps. Just mod stuff and accessibility.
Probably a typo.
(But really how many corporate meetings and emails were passed around to agree on that copy you think, it's gonna be lawyers all-hands-on-deck tomorrow, probably one of the most expensive AMAs ever with all of those billable hours)
I agree with your parenthetical strongly enough to rule out a typo.
This announcement lists things that Reddit will humor, for now, and as a way of cheaply outsourcing niche and difficult problems. It clarifies that everyday third party apps were never intended to have a future with the platform. They're simply an obstacle for Reddit's most convincing path to revenue.
I might even have forgiven Reddit if it had said so up front, but the story they've been trying to spin – with prices that just happen to be orders of magnitude in excess of anything devs might afford – is outrageously insulting. I've never had my trust in a brand demolished so thoroughly so quickly.
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He has serious guts to be doing an AMA.
Unless he's using this opportunity to repeal the API changes or officially resign as CEO and put somebody more competent in charge, I don't see this going well.
Spez should honestly learn to read the room.
I partially agree with you that he's got guts, but I think more so that you hit the nail here:
Spez should honestly learn to read the room.
I think there may be something genuinely not right with his sense of social awareness. I'm not a ~~doctor~~ psychiatrist, etc., but when I read the post today from iamthatis about Apollo shutting down, the quoted text that came from spez really felt defensive to me.
I think there may be something genuinely not right with his sense of social awareness
I agree with you and if Roman Roy thinks that, there is something seriously wrong.
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As comrade Diatlov said, "not bad, not terrible" (in u/spez words).
That's gonna be a disaster. I'm waiting to see how he spins the "why did you lie about your interactions with the Apollo dev?" questions.
There's no way he answers that. There's no way he answers anything. He will pose for a verification photo and then a team of lawyers and underpaid publicists will answer the questions they plant. This is all a stunt.
I bet it will be massively curated and full of planted questions.
Question: “u/spez, your administration of Reddit is like a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?”
Redditors have no chill when it comes to minor stuff let alone this API debacle. It's going to be a dumpster fire and I cant see this going well.
Isn't Spez the guy that stealth edited some user's negative comments about him?