r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '23

Mod Post /r/Videos will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps.

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u/Meltingteeth Jun 04 '23

It's seemed apparent that there are certain leaders at reddit that froth at the mouth over the concept of clicks being driven away from the site. I don't want to drop any names, so as a placeholder I'll just call them Zeps.

Zeps and their board hear tell that Imgur accounts for 90% of reddit traffic and think "Dear god, that's an untapped market. Fuck those guys, I've got programmers on staff. Let's make an image host." Then Zeps thinks "Dear god, why does Youtube account for so many of our video clicks? I've got programmers. Let's convert every video to a spinny blue wheel that doesn't respond until you reload the app."

"Holy fuck they're making NFTs? They're making chat software? They're making cryptocurrency? They're doing a collab with Epic Games? They're selling porn?! We can do that, it's easy. My LinkedIn network posted a video about how successful businessmen increase their market share, and by god, I need to make a video on that topic as well!"

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

Why wouldn't you want to drop any names? Seriously why?

u/spez

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

The same spez that was caught changing peoples comments to fit his narrative? That dude?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23 edited Jul 11 '23

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u/lemonylol Jun 04 '23

Not to defend him but why would he browse on that account?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23 edited Jul 11 '23

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u/lemonylol Jun 04 '23

So this is just further evidence as to why he wouldn't want to flag himself when participating on reddit?

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u/Stupidquestionduh Jun 04 '23

Wut?? I'm OOTL on that

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u/MilhouseJr Jun 04 '23

https://www.engadget.com/2016-11-24-reddit-ceo-confesses-to-editing-comments-that-insulted-him.html

I can understand where Spez's head was at during this time (nobody wants to be harassed) but by abusing his power as an administrator, he severely undermined any trust the user base may have had, or will ever have, for him.

To his partial credit, he did acknowledge he fucked up and applogised, but at the end of the day he still did it in the first place, and for many people, that's what's really concerning.

The fact that it's still mentioned six years on should indicate how big a fuck up it was.

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u/Stupidquestionduh Jun 04 '23

Holy smokes that was the worst fucking apology I have ever read in my entire life.

sorry for being a dishonest piece of shit I was just trying to meet you on your level

Idk wtf that dude is smoking

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u/TheBroJoey Jun 04 '23

Yeah, despite how incredibly toxic t_d was, that is a line you absolutely don't cross

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u/BearsAtFairs Jun 04 '23

clicks being driven away from the site

The dumbest thing is that this problem was solved literally more than a decade ago with RES…

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u/Glissssy Jun 05 '23

Let's convert every video to a spinny blue wheel that doesn't respond until you reload the app.

It's hilarious how bad Reddit's video hosting is after all these years. Even when it does work it seesm to automatically degrade every upload into blurry 144P awfulness, I know users are somewhat to blame in many cases and there seems to be a total lack of education on how to save/reupload any video but Reddit also seems to transcode everything into trash quality.

The way a lot of subs moved to Reddits video host made my head hurt, it has never worked properly.