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Wasn't one of the excuses they used for removing 3rd party API usage was the clients were inefficient and resource intensive?

Well, now it's just their own official client, and yet the server is still down, so....

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Remember the days when Reddit would go down at least every month or so?

And that was the reason to start selling awards and beginning of the Enshittification of reddit.

Only back then it was presented as, ‘hey people of reddit, we have a problem, can you help us out?’ Instead of, ‘Fuck You! Pay Me!’ like the API bullshit.

I remember there was a TIL that was about how Reddit didn't make enough money to pay for its servers so people started encouraging others to buy gold and to gild comments.

Then someone said it would be great to see a progress meter that shows whether we paid enough to pay for reddit for the day.

It was the golden age of reddit, if you'll pardon the pun. Unidan was still around. Celebrities were engaging with the community. It was wild. Users wanted to see Reddit succeed and reddit proper wanted to help its users.

It's sad to see what Reddit has become.

I’m still justice for Victoria and what they did to the AMA sub. That damn near killed all the cool engagement the site had. After that it just became endless shitposts with no real quality. It’s sort of the same on Lemmy, but with no corporate overlords. So I have that at least.

Victoria was GOAT. She made sure that AMAs went smoothly and that celebrities knew what they were getting into.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's talk about Rampart, this new movie starring Woody Harrelson.