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        I don’t think I need to give them ideas. Seems like they’ve got the whole “destroy reddit” thing covered.

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          Certainly following in the footsteps Steve Huffman’s idol, Elon Musk.

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      I’m surprised old wasn’t next after third party apps. I’m surprised they decided to kill the literal “give us money” button.

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      Access on Sundays and Wednesdays.

      It has come to our attention they Sundays and Wednesdays aren’t always the best content days. In order to return to smarter thinkin and good design, we are discontinuing reddit’s feature known as “being accessing on Sundays and Wednesdays”.

      This comes after much thought. We know some of you have gotten great value out of using Reddit on Sundays and Wednesdays, and we hope you can cherish with us the memory of those days’ access on Reddit.

      But the future is progress, and the market has spoken. Despite what the market says, we are listening to management. Not to worry though. Sunday and Wednesday access will still be available until September of 2023, when we will begin a phased shutdown of two sevenths of our service.

      Why are we doing this? The current move is a compromise between those who wanted Sunday removed but Wednesday to remain, and those who wanted Wednesday to be removed while Sunday remains.

      For those of you who just can’t do without your Sunday or Wednesday Reddit fix, we recommend trying Reddit on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays.

      We are absolutely dedicated to continuing to bringing 24/5 news, cultural, and community-driven content straight to your web browser or Official Reddit App.

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      My money’s on automod. It’s yet another of those “pesky tools” used by the “landed gentry” against advertisement disguised as content.

      I also predict that a few subreddits criticising corporations might get banned, such as r/hailcorporate and perhaps r/assholedesign.

      I don’t think that they’ll get rid of old.reddit now because the ghost of Digg still haunts Greedy Pigboy.

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        I think you might be right about the removal of anti-corporate or anti-capitalist subreddits. They’re not exactly suited for ad placement, so they’re pretty much worthless to reddit at this point.

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      That and the mobile website. They’re already running an A/B test where they just flat out block mobile users and instead demand they download the app. That fucking app man… They’ll try anything to push the app, anything except making it actually enjoyable to use that is.

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        Blocking mobile browser users will be the beginning of the end. Very few casual read-only users will download the app just to read some content on Reddit. Reddit is highly ranked in search engines and the kind of users that flock into Reddit via Google and the likes for sure make up a decent percentage (perhaps the majority?) of traffic on Reddit. I for sure hope they will enforce this policy, that will only increase Reddit’s downfall.

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      I’m honestly surprised it’s lasted this long. Especially given the third party app shutoff.

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        As am I. I was convinced it would’ve been killed off years ago since they introduced the new ui.

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      The only way to browse Reddit, but I say let it die. Let the whole thing crash and burn.

      We have mlmym.org now. Old Reddit can live on in a new life outside of its greedy creator.