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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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I can understand the changes they make, obviously they must be pretty desperate for IPO and need to make the business viable. What I don't understand is the absolutely terrible PR disaster that was the API changes announcement and the lack of any apology around that.
At this point, even if they backpedaled completely - even if they fired spez - it's far too little and far too late. Third party apps are gone. The trust is gone. Folks like me deleted their content and their accounts. There is no going back.
the internet in general kind of sucks these days. Reddit has burned down a lot of the things that made its search results so useful in the past. Every forum post more than a few years old is a forest of broken links; the top of basically any internet search whatsoever is an ocean of SEO spam. And that's before you get into the sheer amount of information that isn't searcheable at all because it's on platforms like discord.
I could at least understand that though, it would suck but I would not be surprised. I'm genuinely dumbfounded by the attempt to just brush past it