But, purely because of Reddit's (and especially the CEO's) behavior around this issue, Reddit now occupies the same position for me that Twitter does: I'm not even following occasional links to it. It's radioactive to me. (Musk fans: I treated twitter this way before Musk bought it, it's unrelated to him.)
Not that this will affect Reddit in any way, but it's better for my own well-being.
They never really have. They add features nobody wants all the time instead of making changes the community asks about for years. Who wanted live streaming or instant messaging on Reddit? Spez has edited users’ comments in the past as well.
Basically Reddit the company is incompetent for failing to understand their product and run by a child.
About live threads: the existing static threads were annoying to use for ongoing sport events for example. So I did like the idea, but the implementation was poor.
It’s like they want to be every social media app at once instead of focusing on their strengths.
It'll be interesting to see if the current outrage machine actually has any long term effect or if next year things will just be business as usual at Reddit.