That’s a feature, not a bug.
I scrambled years worth of comments into a statement about the fuckery Reddit has committed and left those edited comments intact while deleting my accounts.
This serves a couple of purposes:
- Devalue the platform by destroying information, with the explicit hope that it fucks with Google results and that people will leave if enough people salted the earth on their way out
- Informing people of Reddit’s fuckery
The app was barely monetized (ads and an in app purchase to remove ads).
They stated that they had to remove the ads, which tells me that they did so to be temporarily considered a “non-commercial” app and get a temporary exception.
They’re talking about implementing a subscription for the v2 version but they’ve clearly not figured out a workable price point yet and they’re already stressing over high usage users and charging them an overage fee if they hit a certain usage.
Honestly sounds like it’s going to be a disaster and they’re figuring it out as they go along.