I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.

  • mcc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    403·
    2 years ago

    I mean, if they say “you have to pay 3 bucks a month to use 3rd party client” I would be annoyed but I would understand, and I would still be on reddit.

    • darkmugglet@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      2 years ago

      I would have paid $3 a month to use a third party client. I don’t want to pay $50 for bulk shit.

    • nude@kbin.social
      181·
      2 years ago

      I would have gladly paid for a premium reddit experience, had it provided useful features. 3rd party app access is something I would have totally understood and paid for. RES features integrated, various styles such as old.reddit enshrined and protected, the option to opt in/out of various features, premium access to mod/admin subs that actually get a response, etc.

      Instead they offered awards to give out. No value, no purchase.

    • jinno@kbin.social
      12·
      2 years ago

      Exactly. But they dropped exhorbitant cost on those apps and provided no runway for them to adapt their business model. So instead - I’m here on kbin and likely going to dive into an open source project to try to help get a mobile app for this out soon.

    • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      exactly! so fucked and insidious and greedy that they’re trying to weed out competition as well