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View submission: What we’re working on this year
This is going to sound callous and I’m sure I’ll get downvoted to hell, but just go then. Why wait? Every developer hour Reddit spends on the 4% of users clinging to old Reddit is an hour they don’t spend improving the experience for me and the other 96% of users here.
You may not like new Reddit but clearly millions of other people are perfectly fine with it. I’ve been on the site under assorted usernames for over a decade and I have no qualms with new Reddit. Did it suck at first? Sure. But it’s been literally years since it was launched. At some point, they are going to reach a pivot where the ad revenue on old Reddit is no longer higher than the dev cost and poof, it’s gonna disappear.
“We have no plans to get rid of old Reddit” is a lie. They absolutely have a plan. It would be bad business not to. That plan doesn’t kick in until a particular spreadsheet cell on the CFO’s laptop turns from black to red.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/06/2022 at 23:36 UTC
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Why wait? Because it's still working. I have no need to change until my experience is diminished, such as being forced to use new reddit or their official app.
I don't care about them spending more hours supposedly making new reddit better. It sucks. They want to go the same route as everyone else and I use reddit because it's *not* those things.
Comment by cybercobra at 05/06/2022 at 00:00 UTC
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where the ad revenue on old Reddit is no longer higher than the dev cost
I have a paid subscription, LOL! Haven't been served an ad on Reddit in years.