They act like everyone already uses reddit and the users are so addicted they’ll put up with anything.

To be honest, this may actually be true for a significant portion of the userbase.

Completely agree! Especially if it some kind of product support. I hate having to scroll through thousands of chronically ordered chat messages to find the solution to the problem I’m having.

ITT: nope, not touching anything touched by Zuckerberg.

I think it is safe to assume that’s happening now anyway. As long as anyone can access the data at the moment, they will too.

Unfortunately websites can’t really go private :P

So after June 30th we will not have an idea about the state of things anymore… :P

Profitable is probably a big word here, but they were surviving and without any real ambitions, not a lot of money was necessary. Originally, the Reddit gold awards seemed to be enough for them to pay for server usage and the handful of developers/admins.

However, the last couple of years things felt like they were changing behind the scenes. More investors were attracted and growth became an objective. The low interest rates indeed meant a lot of money was available and that investors wanted more growth as there were plenty of alternatives that WERE growing. If your growth is/was disappointing, you’d lose the investors as they would go elsewhere. The current situation is likely just the tail end of that process.