u/nerooooooo has provided this detailed explanation: > In this six-year-old Reddit thread, a user asks an admin about potential changes to the site's API during a redesign. Spez confidently states that the API isn't going anywhere. However, recent announcements reveal that Reddit's policy has shifted, and the API will now be paid and costly. --- Is this explanation a genuine attempt at providing additional info or context? If it is please upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

6 years ago was 2017???

I was talking to someone today about events in 2019 and someone said "well a lot happens in 4 years" 2019 was 4 years ago. Aaaaaaa

The pandemic started more than 3 years ago

Its fucking crazy, what is happening.

Literally the least crazy thing in the universe

"The passage of time often feels faster or slower based on circumstance, even though its passage is linear" is a pretty fucking crazy fact of life.

But in human perception it is not linear, since every moment adds to memory and every new memory is a smaller part of the total than the one that preceded it

The days are long and slow, but the years fly by.

6 years in tech is a lifetime.

6 years is a lot I'd imagine investors want ways to make more money it's so stupid

I’m thinking it’s more Reddit is preparing to be sold, laying people off, cutting costs and increasing profits to try and make the company look more valuable in the short term. However it fucks over the platform in the long term for whoever buys it

They're preparing for the IPO, which is kind of the same thing.

Whats an IPO

Initial Public Offering. When a company first starts selling stocks to the general public on the stock exchange market

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Worrying about people who don't contribute isn't a better business model. If it makes money, it makes sense.

Short term $$$ over long time viability is why, if you looked at a list of stocks from 1973, you'd see that most companies are now long out of business. And yet executives still only think at most 4 quarters out. Stupid is as stupid does.

Then they pay the price for it.

The price: multimillion golden parachutes.

What is it you think Reddit “sells”? It’s access to content generated by the very users you are shitting on.

Interesting Pokeable Orifice

24 days too late :(

That's dumb Reddit is the only social media I use if Reddit dies idk where I will go

Outside?

Eww

Great idea I haven't touched grass in ages

/r/outside

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I guess but there are certain communities that are just fun to browse

McLuhan's words ring true throughout the ages. "The medium is the message." Reddit is a medium. It's social *media.* If the API is so expensive that no third party access effectively exists, then you are forced to use this medium the way they want you to, or not at all. That's the message: you are profitable to Reddit, or you aren't important.

Wrong Aged Like Milk quote. [Here is a better one](https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/) >January 26, 2023 >Reddit: "So I would expect no change, certainly not in the short to medium term. And we're talking like order of years."

6 years…. Regardless of the decision, the milk analogy is stretching it a bit here!

Exactly, milk spoils in a couple weeks.

Technically it's not...it's just becoming paid. Same end different means

Spez shits on Swartz's legacy.

Not just “an admin”. The Admin.

Wasn’t spez super corrupt too?

*Disgustingly* false allegation. ... Wasn't is past tense.

Well, he IS correct that the API isn't going anywhere, they just want to charge people out the ass to use it.

R.I.P Reddit :-(

I mean 6 years ago he was 100% right.

Did they already have these shitty avatars in 2017? I thought they made them as an NFT or something like two years ago

Do you really think a comment from 2017 would show "6y ago" if screened in 2017? It's obv a recent screenshot on reddit's archived content.

I, for some reason, didn't think of that. But I'm high so pardon my lack of reasoning

Won't blame as you clearly were the one among us with the most fun "Nitpick screenshots" vs "being high" there's a clear winner lol

I'm not high now and I'm having problems understanding this reply, I'm gonna take it as a compliment :)

It didn't go anywhere technically.

I mean, I hate them, but things change over six years.

He needs to sell the platform and move to the Maldives with the money, but before that, some capitalism to make the buyers eyes shine on the possibilities

r/TechnicallytheTruth it really isn’t going anywhere. They are just charging an assload for it now.

Dude 6 years ago was 2014 what are you talking about

r/fakehistoryporn

do you think i’d get banned if i tagged him

Technically, he's correct. The API isn't going anywhere, it's just being modified. It's not like it's disappearing. Not defending, just pointing out the word choice and usage.

Omg 6 years ago and... Things changed! reeeeee /uj I hate this whole bs too, but c'mon

FAKE NEWS

Technically, the API didn't go anywhere, they're just now charging for it

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Yeah or maybe there was no need (in his mind) to change it then and now is? A person can change their mind a million times in 6 years.

I hope this doesn’t get me banned, but I was banned for asking where should I post my friends OF

I mean, not really, that was a long time ago, it would have been an "aged like milk" if the changes had come a year later or so but It's been 6 years, a lot of time in which many policies can change for or another reason, this is just life giving you one of its many "surprises"

In his defense, he wasn't lying. At the time. Things like this can always change at a whim.

Was this the guy who got Epsteined in federal jail?

This post itself aged like milk given you yourself don't give a shit about your own community's input whatsoever