Digg went through a series of redesigns in a short period of time and the final straw was a redesign was one that removed users abilities to manage their feeds so that they could force ads into the feed. A few years later when they sold they said that overnight they lost a quarter of their users from that change. And those users were the initial userbase of Reddit, which was essentially the answer to Digg's attempt to monetize users through forced ads.
Now, Reddit is "not even noticing a change in traffic" so much that they felt the need to make a public statement about it. Reddit is killing users abilities to customize their feed so that users are forced to use a feed which includes ads. It's literally the same thing.
Well, we former Reddit mods don't need to understand anything in that regard. Fuck Reddit in its entirety. I'm not wasting time considering their point of view. I understand that they're pieces of shit. I did negotiate - they doubled down and so I carried through and walked the fuck away, revoked my registered copyrighted material and took the first steps to litigation when they reposted it. They've taken it back down after the DMCA was filed, we'll see if it goes back up.
An ultimatum is a negotiation.
lol nah Reddit can fail. Just like Tumblr, and Digg, and MySpace, and LiveJournal, and GeoCities, and the list goes on. Reddit relies on volunteer work to provide its content, and just like when Digg tried to do almost the same thing, the community will move on. It always does. It has since the 80s and will until the extinction of humanity or the collapse of civilization.
Let it fail.
It's like they forgot what happened to Digg. They have forgotten the face of their father.
We'll see what they do. What I flagged I am the registered copyright holder for. Metallica proved that we can treat them stealing copyrighted material that was expressly forbidden like it's industrial espionage, I'm sure I can find an IP lawyer with a raging hate-on for Reddit.
I mean, those aren't mutually exclusive. I have plenty of shit I've personally written that sends automated messages once something has been completed, even though the process that's completed is manual. It's extremely common in any ticketing software especially to automatically send an email with the contents of the ticket update or with notification of a status change. Given the quality of their "admin team" and programming staff I'd be surprised if they had even customized the install of whatever ticketing system they paid a contractor to set up.
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