I’m 100% convinced the reason they think 3PA API usage is unusually high per user is because all the high engagement users use 3PA, because their app actively repulses people from wanting to spend time on it. It seems like such a classic product misinterpretation of the stats, I’ve seen this from the inside as a developer before, ironically also at a company trying to IPO and failing spectacularly by completely misreading the room and their users
I hadn’t thought about this but it makes sense. It’s widely known that their largest contributors are 3PA users, I wonder if they did take the bias into account
Since this began, I’ve seen countless screenshots of people showing the Reddit official app crashing. Not just during the blackout, but generally. So it’s not just that it has a poor interface or too many ads… the thing just doesn’t work properly for a lot of users.
I’m 100% convinced the reason they think 3PA API usage is unusually high per user is because all the high engagement users use 3PA, because their app actively repulses people from wanting to spend time on it. It seems like such a classic product misinterpretation of the stats, I’ve seen this from the inside as a developer before, ironically also at a company trying to IPO and failing spectacularly by completely misreading the room and their users
I hadn’t thought about this but it makes sense. It’s widely known that their largest contributors are 3PA users, I wonder if they did take the bias into account
IIRC they used some Reddit outage causing API usage to blow up on all platforms as some sort of anecdote toward 3PA API usage…
Since this began, I’ve seen countless screenshots of people showing the Reddit official app crashing. Not just during the blackout, but generally. So it’s not just that it has a poor interface or too many ads… the thing just doesn’t work properly for a lot of users.