Biggest mistake by far was letting adtech completely TANK the performance of sites just so they can satisfy paranoid adverts. It's an absolute travesty that a top 3 reason to install adblock comes from a performance POV, because these simple static webpages* are forced to inject MB's of ads into your feed first.
Reddit as a site was never optimal to begin with and it only became worse when they decided to homeroll their own image/video hosting. But the biggest consequence of surrendering to ads turns base Reddit into feel like its 20 years older than it is.
>It baffles me why Reddit would want to cut support for 3rd party apps when they were a key component in the Reddit ecosystem.
money and control, the root of most evils in the world.
Reddit as a site was never optimal to begin with and it only became worse when they decided to homeroll their own image/video hosting. But the biggest consequence of surrendering to ads turns base Reddit into feel like its 20 years older than it is.
>It baffles me why Reddit would want to cut support for 3rd party apps when they were a key component in the Reddit ecosystem.
money and control, the root of most evils in the world.