Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits - eviltoast

Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API

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    1 year ago

    $10/mo is probably in the ballpark.

    I honestly don’t think the pricing was unreasonable. The main issue was the execution.

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      1 year ago

      Only reasonable for an individual, bulk tools need more juce than a reg user, reddit holds a lot of cards for what to do to adress the power users

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        A lot of the mod tools were exempted. I imagine the ones that weren’t didn’t even try in protest.