My take is that their goal is to destroy third party apps because they can’t control the advertising or get metrics on advertising back. Their in-house app is annoying, buggy, and geared towards maximizing advertising space. It’s not a user friendly app.

Reddit's official app is one of the most blatant examples of 'enshittification' to date in my opinion. I definitely would like to see Reddit be replaced with decentralised forums, I'd genuinely be happy with phpBB with threaded comments and an optional centralised login.

The sad part is, they bought a good app, Alien Blue, and made it worse.

I’ve been surprised by the bugginess. I open up a thread and as I scroll, some of the comments are already collapsed, despite having 50 or more upvotes. I can only assume this is a cell reuse bug. If that’s true, that is seriously amateur hour.

Edit: and their video playback has been notorious for years now

Their app and website also hog battery life like crazy in my experience on iOS and iPadOS.

Between the trainwreck that is "new" desktop reddit and the bad mobile apps, it's clear that quality is not a priority when hiring engineers or there's some organizational factor that's preventing their engineering teams from delivering quality. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a result of the marketing department and non-engineer C-suites running the show.

Maybe that‘s been their strategy all along? I.e. demand the impossible and then back down to more „reasonable“ prices to appease the masses.

I don't think they will because of how extreme the increase in pricing has been. They know what they're doing.

If they wanted to be reasonable, they would have just bought Apollo entirely.

In the video, he literally says Reddit offered him a job shortly after the Apollo public release. He politely declined 6 years ago and said they have had an amicable relationship until now.