Comment by scriptkiddie4hire on 03/03/2021 at 18:44 UTC*

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Reddit wants to become an instant messaging service .. I would have thought it learned after its previous mistakes

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Comment by [deleted] at 03/03/2021 at 19:06 UTC

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Comment by alphanovember at 03/03/2021 at 19:17 UTC

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As if it wasn't bad enough that it had become a social network after 2014-2017.

Comment by Eric_the_Barbarian at 03/03/2021 at 19:59 UTC

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You mean like the chat feature that seems to only exist for bots to spam you?

Comment by Its_or_it_is at 03/03/2021 at 20:10 UTC

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after its* previous mistakes

The apostrophe makes it a contraction for "it is" or "it has", i.e. "It's 2 o'clock", "It's been a while", etc.

Comment by gpu1512 at 03/03/2021 at 21:10 UTC

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I think they're trying everything and seeing what sticks

Comment by [deleted] at 11/03/2021 at 01:51 UTC

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This design team learns nothing.