[zamalek]

I would agree with you were this drama not consistently hitting the frontpage on Reddit. If the users who wouldn't turn back aren't a majority, they are still a significant fraction. That's not good news for the IPO Reddit is hoping for.

[prox]

From what I have gathered sofar, Spez was thinking win-win : raise the API price, if they pay, fantastic, fresh money hose. If they don’t: apps get killed (we are here) and people flock to our official offerings and we gain eyeballs.

Ofcourse this protest was probably not on his timeline. Let’s hope it kills all traction it had.