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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really wonder how much longer old.reddit.com will last. Surely that's "costing them millions of dollars" they could be saving as well, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Considering they've straight out said during this whole debacle that they had no plans to mess with old.reddit.com, just the same as they told the Apollo dev back in January they had no plans to mess with the API anytime in the near future - yeah, I have been wondering this, too.

It makes me sad for the future of troubleshooting older hardware and software problems. I have a lot of legacy equipment, and appending "site:reddit.com" to my search queries often gets me further faster than searching error messages alone. So many people are overwriting and deleting their old comments and posts while Reddit itself is fucking the accessibility of the information they steward, and it's going to punch a little gap into the collective knowledge of the internet. That sucks.