Reddit was an also-ran to Digg for half a decade. They literally were not the first mover. Meanwhile, Claude Code very much has a first mover advantage that Anthropic is trying to entrench and capitalize on.
> Plus its product utility scaled with user count.
Which should mean it’s more impactful for Reddit to lose a set of engaged users. The value that Reddit brings to its customers is directly proportional to how many customers maintains. The same is not true for Anthropic.
Digg (or Slashdot before it) wasn't Reddit in the same way that HN isn't Reddit: aggregators vs community discussions. 2/4chan or BBSs would have been the previous alternatives.
What was the scaled pre-existing topic-divided community-moderated discussion space?
It's difficult to say Claude Code has first mover advantage when these discussions are littered with people talking about their alternative preferred toolchains.
> The value that Reddit brings to its customers is directly proportional to how many customers maintains. The same is not true for Anthropic.
I'd question Anthropic's ability to fund Claude Code engineering vs their peer competitors, should they slip user count.
Digg and Reddit were basically the same product addressing the same market. When Digg imploded, their user base largely moved to Reddit. HN was also explicitly created as a Reddit clone.
Reddit did not have community discussions originally. That came later (but before the Digg exodus).
Why would they need to make an announcement? Their subscription plan is for their products only. Other companies were hacking it to use it. It's not surprising they would shut it down.
Agreed. People are trying to pretend that they’ve changed the deal, but Anthropic never included “cheap model access for competing products” in the deal. It only ever worked because OpenCode pretended to be Claude Code.
It’s totally valid that people who used OpenCode with Claude would be annoyed, but less valid to act shocked.
Plus I’m the one who compared them to Reddit. They certainly didn’t issue a statement that said “well it worked for Reddit”.