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Okay but why didn't they have a usable option before killing off the stuff people use? This stupid-ass tradition of companies timing things in ways that make no sense outside their own corrupted minds... Did they surprise themselves with this timing? Is there literally some hidden authority running the world but it's actually one guy from 4chan who just out of nowhere declared "Enshittify NOW!! Trolololololol" and they had to do it?
Baffling that they couldn't have set a time that worked to make something or made something that worked before starting this crap. People even begged them to simply delay the switch, which obviously would've given their code-slaves more time to solve this mess for them but noooope. What good is kicking your userbase in the pants whilst lighting your company aflame if you're not gonna laugh at the fire and the fleeing?
They didn't fucking think about it. It literally never occurred to them to consider all the third-party work that went into being able to make their site actually usable. They just assumed that, obviously, the official app is fine, and people would just "adjust".
The conversation they had with the mods of r/blind was a complete joke. It just never once occurred to anyone that people with accessibility needs use Reddit at all.
The following is a dramatization
"Who in your company has accessibility certifications, and which ones?"
"..... uh....... well, of course we do...[texting their boss what the fuck is an accessibility certification???] I just.... [ding! A what? TF is that?].... am not allowed to answer that..... ... right now..."
"When was the last time you had a third-party accessibility audit, and who performed it?"
".....oh, we.... totally... had an accessibility audit, just... like... you know, just recently! And it was performed by.... uh.... [texting Who the fuck does accessibility audits???]... uh, you know, that big company, from Canada... you've probably never met them... [ding! What audits? The fuck are those? I don't fucking know!] I'm just... not allowed to say right now."
Communication between different departments in most functional large companies is almost always a crapshoot so, yeah, they almost definitely did.