Part of me finds it hilarious that if Reddit just straight up closed its API saying they didn’t want to support it anymore Twitter-style and Spez just shut up, they would most likely be in a far better position right now.

I don’t understand why they felt the need to engage so much with app providers and be so childish about the whole thing. They just had to assume they were yielding the power they have over the platform and that’s how things were going to be from on now, no long explanation needed. They could still be communicating this way actually and it would sound much more honest and serious that what they are doing currently.

As of now the whole thing is a master class in how not to communicate.