The question is will mods perm nuke comments before turning off their subs? Reddit will take over the subs if this continues post a few days. There is a lot of grief being given in the Apollo thread on Reddit to the dev who “organized this black out” while they don’t even use the app. There will be people who either don’t understand or are too ignorant to try. And Spez will not lose the site fully to people who hold their subs hostage. He’ll burn it down before he caves on the API issue.
yankeebobo
joined 2 years ago
They won’t waste their time managing the subs until they see who returns tomorrow
For those that still want the smaller 13”, you can spec up the specs to match the 15. The downfall is you’re spending $100 more for a smaller laptop so it’s really targeted for those not wanting to carry around the 15”.
Definitely looking forward to this.
User education will be key. Let’s face it, old time “Redditors” will look at the simplicity of creating an account, and looking at sub-reddits and say “I’m too old to learn a new way. This is too much”.
The seniors won’t leave, and the younger who don’t follow basic tech will be in the same boat. Just look around some of the subs there - they are entrenched.
This. For those that understand that standing up the infrastructure costs money, I don’t think paying a reasonable price would be out of the realm. Even the Apollo dev was stating that API should not be free, but reasonable.
Hopefully, but somehow I doubt the same amount would join. Those that are indefinite are not enough.
Had the subs gone off for longer (2 weeks) or indefinitely, the risk of Google bots dropping links may have shaken things up more. Personally, I don’t see Reddit going anywhere. There frankly is not enough backing for a sustained enough period of time. Reddit knows tomorrow subs who joined for 2 days will re-open.
yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook
Christian would have an opportunity to use much of the Apollo code and start over as a lemmy client. It’s too bad the sting is so fresh in his mind. He has built a reputation of a great app and would easily be able to start a small purchase charge for the app and then add features behind a small paywall.
Yeah, I’m done