Yeah, that's what they were doing, and it was working well enough. Dark patterns are evil but quite effective.
My guess is that investors are banging on the door wanting their payout, and the people on the other side of that door are panicking. Reddit Inc was probably a money furnace, like a dot-com of old. But it turns out a bunch of nerds and aficionados piping text through your servers does not equate to a hundred-billion-dollar business.
My guess is that investors are banging on the door wanting their payout, and the people on the other side of that door are panicking. Reddit Inc was probably a money furnace, like a dot-com of old. But it turns out a bunch of nerds and aficionados piping text through your servers does not equate to a hundred-billion-dollar business.