Reddit: Don't like us anymore? Pay us $50/year!

just reminded me to cancel premium, thank you!!

Premium’s been a thing for a long time, it used to be Reddit Gold several years ago. It also used to be cheaper, $3.99/mo but it went up multiple years ago.

They might be pushing it hard right now, though. Not sure. Maybe they’re trying to entice the people who were paying for 3PA features to pay Reddit instead or something.

I currently have premium, ad free is the only way Reddit is palatable even before all this went down and I bought it ages ago when I wanted to support a thing I used every day and also have had a couple awards that extended it, it expires in August. I won’t be renewing.

I mean, if they say "you have to pay 3 bucks a month to use 3rd party client" I would be annoyed but I would understand, and I would still be on reddit.

Man, I signed up reddit premium in like April because I wanted to support the site that I'd been using for 13 years. Just two months later, I've got so much regret lol

"The suckers we talked into giving us money for our crazy salaries over the past decade+ want a return on their investment so cough up"

The irony is that I was mentally prepared to have to pay for Premium to keep BaconReader. All they had to do was add an "API access" badge to that screen and none of this would have happened, plus they would have gotten a bunch more new sign-ups. I am at a loss to explain what Steve is thinking, nor why his decisions are better for profitability.

I actually -was- paying for premium for over 6 years… canceled now

Leaving that garbage website was the best decision I've made for my mental health since pot

Who the fuck cares about avatar gear and app icons?!

I tried to look at a reddit link via mobile web browser and it said something really stupid like.. we can't show you this on the web you need to use the app.

Dafuq? Hell no. I guess I'm not looking at it then. Jumped the shark, well and truly.

Imagin paying for the privilege of generating free content for others to monetize.

I'm not paying for social media. Unless it's a donation to my server.

Paying an optional subscription fee is a great idea. It helps pay for servers and personal.

Paying to give special rewards is a horrible idea. The wealthiest can now decide which opinion is best. Everyone wants to reply to the rewarded comments to be more visible for upvotes. It's terrible.

I had add free browsing on RIF u mother fuckers.

I thought they were introducing something new among all this other bullshit but as soon as I saw it I realized that yeah, thats been around awhile.
As a fellow old.reddit user, none of this does me any good. My adblockers are sufficient, half the time I completely forget I have an avatar, and....i have no idea what the rest of that is. So thanks, but no.

I actually -was- paying for premium for over 6 years… canceled now

I opened jerboa and this was the top of my feed. I was extremely confused for much longer than I'd like to admit.

I canceled my premium a few days ago, I guess if they are charging apps millions for API access, why do I need to pay for premium to help Reddit.

Every time I think they can't go lower, they exceed expectations.

I would have happily paid $50 p/year for Apollo. I won’t pay $0.05c for Reddit.

I'm just shocked at how bad that offer is, 6 dollars a month just for ad free browsing? Damn. All the other "benefits" seem completely worthless to me.

it's so evident that they're going to pump and dump the hell out of reddit, while some unknowledgeable investors are going to be left holding the bag. every move they make is a superficial show with no teeth. they're trashing reddit while dressing it up in designer clothes. it's blaring.

Wow, it was $29.95 a year. I canceled mine the other day and deleted my accounts today. Fuck Reddit.

$50/yr and you get... Nothing i care about.

Avatars, coins, app icon im not interested at all. No ads isn't necessary as none ever appear on my feed. Literally zero need for premium. But but you have access to r/lounge! < Wanking gesture>

I've used reddit for a decade and never once did I feel that paying for it would benefit me.

There's literally nothing enticing in that package.

If they wanted people to pay for API access, why not include that in premium? Though not sure that would have gone much better.

I canceled by Premium subscription when they canceled my third party apps.

I was listening to the interview with the dev of Apollo on John Gruber’s podcast and they brought up the idea that if Reddit wanted to monetize 3PA users, then force them to get a premium subscription. If all I needed to do was pay $50/year to surf reddit comfortably, I would probably do it in a heartbeat tbh

"Pay us and we'll give you all this junk you never wanted in the first place"

I don't want more stuff - I want less of it. That's why I used RiF/old.reddit and that's why I'm now leaving.

Could they be any more shameless? I know this has been a thing for a while but god they’re desperate. Granted I haven’t seen this yet since I’m riding Apollo for as long as I can

I'm ashamed to admit I'm a former reddit premium member. I canceled my subscription after being a paying member for a number of years the day Spez started his bullshit. I just can't see myself going back. I just need to find an instance for my country that's actually active.

Once upon a time, I thought Reddit had the best, least intrusive way of doing ads, since they are essentially just pinned post and you can upvote/downvote and comment on them like any other posts, so the advertiser had to actually try to make good content like anybody else.

But the advertisers don't want even a remotely level playing field, they just want to throw money at reddit to get eyeball on their product, and reddit obliged, thinking the most valuable about reddit to advertisers is the amount of info they can scrape from your profile to personalize your ads, not realizing the most valuable aspect of ads on reddit IS the human aspect of direct community engagement.

Which is one of the reason why TikTok started off so well, because they FORCED companies to make good content for their ads to be seen and engaged with. But now by having the companies close the comments on their ads they are slowing going down the same path as well.

This is a pretty shit deal tbh. Ooohh ad free browsing and some free pngs you can tack onto your avatar or comments.

It sure is convenient that the second they kill third party apps they push a subscription model for ad free service on their ad riddled, barely functioning app...

That's not new, they add this a few years ago after changing "gilded" to multi-tier award, which cost spez-buck, which you can get from either buying it like pay2win game or get this premium, and they will give you some spez-buck each month.

What infuriate me more is they didn't have regional pricing, so reddit premium cost more than youtube premium in my country, which provide better content and all of what i subbed is OG content.

I can't find myself paying monthly for internet regurgitator.

what the FUCK are "monthly coins"

Don't answer that, I actually prefer not knowing.

I canceled my premium a few days ago, I guess if they are charging apps millions for API access, why do I need to pay for premium to help Reddit.

Could they be any more shameless? I know this has been a thing for a while but god they’re desperate. Granted I haven’t seen this yet since I’m riding Apollo for as long as I can

I had a premium account on there for many years, often through being awarded "gold" on posts and the rest of the time through just paying for premium because it was worth it to me to remove the ads (without having to use my ad-blocker) and have the other usability tweaks (as I preferred to reddit on desktop.) I cancelled the recurring payment at the start of this API debacle, because I don't need to be supporting a company which does that.

I'm terribly curious how the money which would be brought in by a user maintaining a premium subscription measures up against the money they'd be making forcing the crappy malware official client on that user and showing them ads.

I'd probably pay the $50/year if it included an API key so I could read with any client I wanted to.

LOL byeeee

What are the devs even doing at reddit, do they even do actual work? The offical app is so shit.

"exclusive avatar gear" I didn't even know there are avatars on Reddit. I've been using Sync for so long I never knew they added them.

Glad I deleted my account a few days ago.

can anybody please tell me why lemmy wont be regulated or commercialized like reddit in the future? which safety rules are installed in the lemmy ecosystem to guarante freedom and democratic rule changes?

This is disrespectful to mods. I work for free, and Reddit makes money from gfs product? That’s not how capitalism works (anymore/yet).

So they are gonna add blue verification ticks any day now, right?

The funny thing to me is that when Reddit Gold first became a thing, I happily joined because I wanted to help support the platform and help pay for the servers. They used to have a little meter on the sidebar showing how far we've gone towards paying server costs.

Gone are the days when they had enough good will to get away with something like that.

I was actually ok with paying them $50 a year for ad-free before they started de-modding people for protesting. Now they can go fuck themselves. I am sympathetic to their need to be profitable. But effectively taking over subreddits is totally unacceptable and Reddit is no longer Reddit.