Oh yeah! News sites come out and say a reward system is found in the app code and a day later, they come out and say they are taking away features without really giving a replacement.
Another fantastic decision among all other fantastic decisions… if your goal is to destroy the brand.
I see the “follow twitter” business model is proceeding.
“We’re having cash flow issues? What should we do?” “I know! Lets cancel the one thing that we’re doing that people are just giving us money for!” “Brilliant!”
I feel they’re gonna replace it with some blockchain/crypto BS.
and now premium is even more useless than it already was
not even surprised, just sitting here watching spez’s dumbassery slowly kill off the website
yooo it’d be neat if we could have our own community custom awards that can be used to help fundraise the servers the community is on
As much as I hate these awards cringey bullshits I have to say it is indeed a bad implementation
Yep I just got my message from them saying if I don’t use them by September, then they will take from me. I still have Reddit as a couple of subs I’m not happy to leave
I was given them by someone who gave me a gold award. I hardly ever bother with them, so do I start giving them out or let them steal them from me?
Edit :Giving them away on r/lemmy
Never really was a fan of the copious amount of awards to begin with. Gold and Silver were fine enough, and they got a point across. If I saw them on a post or comment, I’d have an indicator that someone really liked it, and wanted to praise it beyond giving it an upvote. Silver and Gold were two tiers to this, which coupled with upvotes, was more than sufficient in giving users a metric by which to value posts or comments.
It turned to shit when I start seeing diamond-clad medals, seal heads, unicorns and rainbows, and shooting stars flying across my screen. It took the simple approach and turned it into a clusterfuck of visual noise because the people designing them had no clue about the basics of a user interface.
And then they kill the entire thing because (shocker) it just doesn’t work. Typical.
I’m imagining a future where redditors award each other with nfts and crypto coins
a new direction for awarding that allows redditors to empower one another and create more meaningful ways to reward high-quality contributions
Lmao wut
I dunno. Part of me thinks they have a plan. I have no idea what, but if the entire boardroom is just going along with all the crazy, it makes me think there’s a reason. Maybe there’s a thing that happens if reddit just tanks. Or maybe they all just want it to end and just want to watch it burn.
I’m not saying this is the case, it just wouldn’t surprise me that in a year or so, something comes out to explain all the batshit decisions.
That’s seriously surprising, what of reddit is going to still be reddit by the time their IPO starts?
I don’t care about awards that much but Redditors certainly do so it will have a negative impact.
A little crazy theory:
Maybe they hope that by disabling awards in September there suddenly will be a lot less premium users. Gold and platinum gave a week and a month after all. So there will be a sudden spike in ad revenue just before the planed IPO.
Could be worse, could have gotten exit scammed on a shitcoin!
