Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now
The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall.
Along with everything else wrong with this: your icon is literally your brand, and you want your branding to be flawless + everywhere.
This would be like Nike putting an ugly pixelated version of their logo on cheaper sneakers to encourage you to buy more expensive ones; whatever pocket change they made from upgraders would be dwarfed by the damage it would do to their trademark.
The only thing I can come up with is when reddit was shitting the bed most egregiously, all of the news outlets were showing the app icon in images/thumbnails. Perhaps they wanted to distance a bit from the bad publicity?
Not that having a Doge button is any kind of brand recognition. I'd argue it's juvenile for such a "grown up company", or whatever Spez said about adult business, hehe.
fuck spez, viva la fediverse
actually though how do you justify charging for your normal bloody unaltered logo lmfao
i see why they suddenly decided to destroy third party apps 💀
it's like they want people to leave
Right?
Can’t have the plebs communicating and organizing freely on the likes of twit or redd!
All comms must be filtered through the fair and totally unbiased lens of corporate news media. Those millionaire anchors and billionaire C-suites are on our side, after all.
Can’t have the plebs communicating and organizing freely on the likes of twit or redd!
All comms must be filtered through the fair and totally unbiased lens of corporate news media. Those millionaire anchors and billionaire C-suites are on our side, after all.
Imagine charging for a fucking app Icon.
God mobile markets are such absolute shit.
Reddit is shit, I've deleted all of my accounts. I'm not defending them at all. However, didn't third party apps literally do the same thing? Where you could buy different themed icons?
Yeah but it usually was a „support the dev“ thing.
For example, Apollo (RIP) had an okay icon to begin with, you could choose from a few free ones and if you really liked the app or a specific icon, you could buy it.
They didn’t intentionally make their standard icon shitty to bully you into paying for a decent one
Wait holy shit they locked the ORIGINAL ICON behind a paywall?
such innovation!
A doge themed icon? That idiot really is slurping up Musk sauce and emulating everything he did with Twitter.
A decade old meme is perfect for this
Like when Twitter replaced their logo for their April fool's (which was a couple days late because probably the genius in charge had the idea at the last minute and the remaining h1-b hostages couldn't push it in time)
I. I just don’t understand why they’re even doing this… they’re shooting themselves in the foot over and over, except they’re on a boat and every time it makes extra holes and the ship sinks faster. Everyone else is jumping ship and the ones staying either don’t know they’re sinking or don’t know where to go, or they’re bots.
What blows my mind is I think they would have been moderately successful if they just said you need to have Premium to be able to use third party apps. I used Reddit for HOURS a day. Honestly it was bad. I wouldn’t have liked it but I probably could have justified to myself paying a small fee per month to be able to continue using Apollo if they had played their cards right. Instead I haven’t been back since before the blackout. 🤷🏻♀️ I should thank spez for cutting my addiction cold turkey.
Louis Rossmann had a perspective that I'm starting to come around to.
Spez is just pissed. That's it. He's mad that he got shown up, and is actively punishing people for it. There's no logic or business behind it.
Actually, I subscribe to the theory that Spez & Musk don't care about losing money, because they are being paid under the table more than they're losing by far right dark money to destroy Twitter & Reddit. Both sites were pretty left leaning before the crap hit the fan, and the right are trying purge all liberals from them. I know it seems pretty "tin foil hat"-ish, but it also makes perfect sense when you look at how they've done everything they can to run the sites into the ground.
Startup/ IPO valuations are, nowadays, based on profit per user, rather than daily active users. (Or, at least, skewed much more towards the former).
So, they (comparatively) DGAF if they get rid of 90% of their users if the 10% they do keep click on a shit ton of ads, or buy useless shit, or whatever.
Related: enshittification
kinda sad to see when apollo had community made icons which all looked cool
Wtf, who's coming up with these changes. I'm legit impressed with how many bad PR moves they can make back to back
He's gotta keep up with his dream daddy Elon.
It’s like they are taking advice out of Musk’s playbook on how to blow away money.
Spez has said in interviews he likes how Musk runs Twitter and wants to emulate that.
What a fucking shitshow.
Holy shit it's real and it is the official app. WTF.
What’s new: “changes to improve your overall experience “. Haha. Sure.
“changes to improve” increase profit margins
“your overall experience” sadism
I can't believe that they chose such an ugly icon
For what reason, most people doesn't even know that they could change the icon, free or not
Unless they put a welcome tutorial like "hate the icon design? Now you can pay to restore it to normal!"
I was angry about everything happening with Reddit but honestly I care less and less. It's like watching Twitter self destruct at this point.
I got the new icon, and I thought it was going to be tied into some promotion or something. You know, "We're going 8 bit for a month!" But then nothing ever came - no promotion, no explanation.
It's because they're bringing back r/place
Oh. Oh yeah. That makes sense.
lol holy shit.
What the...? It's such a nonsense business move. The app store now shows this pixel icon when you search for the Reddit app. At first glance, it looks as if it was some shitty clone or something, not the original client.
Doge? Seriously?? This whole Spez following Elon's footsteps is almost as cringe as Elon himself.
Oh look trash looking like trash.
Lmao
How does he get to charge for the original icon? How the fuck does that even happen?
This is simply stupid. Their most important brand element, behind a paywall.
Can you not force a different icon on your phone in iOS? I can make every app icon the YouTube logo if I wanted to. Or my face. Or balls.
I love pixelated stuff and this is still absolutely baffling to me
Now this, really some people needs more fire to abandond that hell hole
To be fair, it’s not the only free one that works. Narwhal still works, as do a couple others