L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoReddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furiousmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1external-linkReddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furiousmashable.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareziggurism@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDidn’t Reddit gold start as just a user-run bot, that kept a tally of how many times it had been invoked for any particular recipient? And then Reddit forced the bot to retire so they could offer a paid version. And now they’re retiring their mandatory replacement. Good job Reddit.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAre people really upset about it? To me it was always pointless, and the few times I got gold and was allowed to peek into r/lounge it was just full of the most insufferable users (just people that thought they were special because they got gold).
minus-squaretoxic_cloud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think the point is more that it’s something people paid real money for just to have them rip it away with basically no notice and no replacement.
Didn’t Reddit gold start as just a user-run bot, that kept a tally of how many times it had been invoked for any particular recipient?
And then Reddit forced the bot to retire so they could offer a paid version. And now they’re retiring their mandatory replacement. Good job Reddit.
Are people really upset about it? To me it was always pointless, and the few times I got gold and was allowed to peek into r/lounge it was just full of the most insufferable users (just people that thought they were special because they got gold).
I think the point is more that it’s something people paid real money for just to have them rip it away with basically no notice and no replacement.