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View submission: Testing a new concept with select subreddit partners
What happens should the subscriber count dip below the funding level needed? Do GIFs revert to not being inline? Old videos get truncated or degraded? Or does it only affect whether new content requiring unlocking can be added, but not already-added content?
Comment by plgrmonedge at 28/08/2020 at 19:17 UTC
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1. Subscriber counts: We will build in grace periods and member counts to ensure the experience doesn't break. Part of the reason for this test is so we can determine how to gracefully manage the experience in such cases.
2. Reverting: Only affects newly added content, not older content. If a sub falls off the power-up threshold at a later date, previously added GIF comments will be kept. Videos previously uploaded at HD quality will also be kept on our servers. However, future streaming requests will then support up to SD quality (v/s HD).