Slate article: "How CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit's co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain..."(indieweb.social)

posted 1 year ago

took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit’s co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit’s still-raging protests: https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html

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Rhaedas@kbin.social

35 points

1 year ago

As well as an unrealistic time table for change (30 days). Selig even offered to discuss giving more time to adapt the apps to what Reddit was wanting, and that’s when the lies from Huffman started.

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d00phy@lemmy.world

12 points

1 year ago

… and all of this after saying in January that there would be no API changes for the foreseeable future “except to possibly make it better.”

The whole timeline of events exposes Reddit as a very poorly run company lacking a planned out roadmap.

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