[gretch]

> Third party app users are far more likely to be 1% and 9% users. They're committed to the platform enough that they're willing to seek out or even make software to improve their experience on it.

You’re speculating at this while the Reddit team just has all of the data and knows exactly where traffic comes from.

Also maybe the 3p app user, while being the most prolific poster, is simultaneously a high % of toxicity.

[chongli]

Reddit has a long track record of incompetence. The site has historically been very unstable and their attempts to replace the front-end UX for both the browser and mobile apps have been widely panned. Therefore, it's reasonable to suspect that they be making a mistake with this decision as well, despite having access to all of the relevant data.

[garbagecoder]

Put another way, Reddit began enshitiffication no later than the "new" style and since it's intentional, it's only a mistake in the medium and long term, as has been noted they're trying to squeeze a few bucks out of its hulk before it dies.