• Stumblinbear
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    1 year ago

    A one line code change but community backlash and basically no new users coming onto the platform is a slow death sentence

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      1 year ago

      Community backlash? Not sure you’ve been paying attention lol. Also Boost/Sync/etc aren’t a “platform”, they’re an app to access a platform.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve been paying plenty of attention. If sync had raised priced to keep operating on Reddit, the users who don’t give a shit or know about the API price increase (which is realistically a large number of them) would blame Sync, not Reddit. People are idiots.

        Most would rightfully stop using it, which would cause ad revenue to plummet, and would very likely make ongoing development of it infeasible since its his full-time job to maintain it.

        And whatever. The specific word I used is irrelevant to my point so I don’t see why it’s necessary to be pedantic about it.

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          1 year ago

          Again though - some money > no money. By literally shutting the app down it makes no money.

          Ongoing development of sync is only a full time job because it paid so well with zero costs since Reddit handed the content and api to the dev for free. It’s definitely not an actual full time jobs worth of work.

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            1 year ago

            It’s definitely not an actual full time jobs worth of work.

            I’m sure reddit has exactly zero engineers who work exclusively on the app every day. /s