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Fine Mom, you've guilted me into commenting.
I've adopted the same IPO theory. Huffman thought this would drive more people to the official app, and he expects that increase to help the IPO so he'd make more money from it. If it works he'll make a lot more money a lot faster than the approach in the screenshot. Then he can just serve everyone ads anyway, sell data etc.
Also he probably thought we were all a bunch of spineless addicts who would cry really loud and eventually fall in line, and a lot of users have. Now let's wait and see the quality of community and content he gets after pissing off the people doing the most to create it.
*I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it sausage link by sausage link, and footlong by footlong; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I ate it. Is it's pattern delicious to you?
-Charles "Smoking Bishop" Dickens*
May you live long and be a celebrated pooper.