this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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WE HAD A GOOD THING YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!

We had 3PA's, we had all the free labor in the world, just from passionate people who wanted to share some topic, we had bots to fight spam, and extremely talented developers who made your stupid website work on mobile. It all ran like clockwork, if you could have just shut your mouth we'd all be fine right now.

But no, you just had to blow it up. YOU, AND YOUR GREED AND YOUR EGO.

Fuck u/spez

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most frustrating part for me is that Reddit could have turned 3PAs into a revenue stream by just making the API pricing reasonable. No one would have been too upset by that, even the 3PA developers thought that would have been reasonable. Hell, I would have rather had Reddit just shut down 3PA explicitly, instead of the stupid cowardly strongarm tactic.

[–] croobat 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, all the "waa waa we tried soo hard to make the 3PAs profitable but now everyone hates us waa" makes me wanna puke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] elonspez -1 points 1 year ago

Yes we had all the good things because they were paying for us