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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 176 points 1 year ago

Research and development, at $438.3 million

What in the fuck has Reddit developed in the last year that cost half a billion fucking dollars?

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 87 points 1 year ago

Hey, it's not easy to make a shitty new redesign of a site. That stuff costs money.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 year ago

Remember when they killed API access claiming it cost the 10s of millions each year? Turns out they could have just not spent so much on reddit avatars and we'd all still be there today.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

They could have just paid the CEO a little less to cover it too. It was just greed so they could sell the data at a pittance, even though the cat is already out of the bag.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen that "you broke reddit" message in a while. Maybe they bought more servers?

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Because I haven't been back since the API Debacle...

FTFY

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The two options to fix that are either buy more servers or make enough idiotic decisions to drive your user base away that traffic is no longer an issue anymore.

I wonder which one reddit opted for?

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An ugly new logo, continued development on world's shittiest mobile app, and a terrible brand new UI for the website (not to be confused with the previous terrible new UI)

Oh yeah, they also did some NFT bullshit, almost forgot about that one.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 4 points 1 year ago

3d probably shouldn't be in logo's except mabye for the apple photos app because coloured glass

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Skeumorphism has entered the chat

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Let‘s see, almost 200 million to their CEO, almost 100 million to their COO. They also got a new logo!

Jokes aside I‘m as floored as you.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Monetization and adware.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe they're bankrolling theDonald's NYC fines.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They are paying lots of programmers. 99% of which are unneccessary, to enshitify the site with new features that subtract value for users.

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They were giving reddit gold to everyone

[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

you think 'place' was free?

They gotta sell access to AI companies somehow.

this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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