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by TechBro8615
1094 days ago
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Are these new statements or rehashed from earlier in the week? If they're new, this guy seriously needs to hire some PR firm to review what he says, because he's putting on a master class of how to dig yourself into a deeper hole: > “I didn’t know — and this is my fault — the extent that they were profiting off of our API. That these were not charities" Only non-profits can use our API. So now we're charging for it (but we're not offering any exemptions for non-profits). And if it's too expensive for anyone who had the gall to generate revenue in exchange for spending years of their life improving our platform, then it's best they shut down! If our arbitrary prices are too high for them, then we don't want their money anyway! What a ridiculous implication. I mean, this is one step away from announcing that you're suing Apollo for the money they made in App Store purchases. |
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But now Steve Huffman is saying here that the API was never supposed to support third-party apps, and they only allowed them out of the kindness of their heart. Which is also wrong, since the API was literally created in part to allow third-parties to make apps, because Reddit didn’t ship a first-party app until 2016 (as I mentioned in my top-level comment on this post).
I honestly can’t see him staying in his position much longer. As I noted in my thread, Reddit’s already starting to lose advertisers because of how they handled redirecting campaigns throughout all of this, and the continued instability is concerning the ones who remained. This isn’t an Elon Musk situation where he owns the company and can do whatever he wants, he has investors to answer to, and eventually they’re going to want answers as to why he’s pushing advertisers away, threatening developer partners, and refusing to listen to his site’s power users who both produce much of the content that drives traffic and provide them with millions of dollars a year in free moderation.