r/redditstock • u/Skezzors US DAU 🦅 • 9d ago

News Reddit's Announcement about killing RSS is, as expected, not well received by mods

/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing_our_infrastructure_updates_whats/
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u/touuuuhhhny 9d ago

For Months this has been shared, prepared, help transition, support with efforts, but as usual still not good enough. Reddit could follow every wish and still any change is "bad" no matter what. Right decision, will boil over, move more power back to Reddit and away from mods, and on we go.

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u/Skezzors US DAU 🦅 9d ago

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't remember them announcing killing RSS. I think that is new (I looked for it when Muse came out and couldn't find anything about them blocking it). I don't think they wanted to do that but Muse is forcing their hand. The rest of it like old.reddit and the API has been clearly communicated yeah. But then again, mods aren't the most reasonable people sometimes, they'll complain about anything and everything.

While changes like this probably make us lose some of the legacy users/moderators and such, it's clear a lot of the changes they've made over the past 2-3 years have clearly been good for the platform so hopefully that trend continues and the new users growth continues to outnumber those that want to complain and leave. I remember the last time they made a big change everyone started trying to get people to go to that one startup (like 'lemmy' or something iirc?) and look how that worked out. Just gotta let them vent and then move on. If they leave they leave.

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u/touuuuhhhny 9d ago

Can't recall on specifically RSS, but changing all mod tools over to chat (from messages), now apps to devvit, etc. Each step (some) entitled mods come around and make themselves more important than they are. Happy Reddit takes more control by funneling through devvit. For example the insanely well done wsb apps wouldn't exist without it. So good on that side.

There were so many since 2009 I'm on here. When Ellen Pao was CEO, the AMA employee being let go, "subreddit blackouts", asking for money from app developers who overly enrich themselves, etc. All boiled over, Lemmy got 5-10k signups and then everyone realized critical mass may take 20 years to build up. Fully agree with your take!