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Reddit makes like half a billion, it's plenty profitable for what it is. The problem is that management is trying to make it into something that it's not in an effort to make even more money when the site just isn't geared for it.

It's like if McDonalds instead of just opening more stores decided that it can make even more money if it turned into a bar and grill because steaks have higher margins.

>>preomm+(OP)
Agreed. The tech world keeps facing this problem, where to justify the valuations that companies end up getting, they need to keep trying to "take over the world". Sometimes it works, and we get stuff like youtube migrating away from just viral videos and video hosting, into supporting an ecosystem of content creators. But so many times it's just wasteful money and effort.

>>preomm+(OP)
Reddit management already did this when they began self-hosting all images and videos. It's pretty disingenuous to complain about excessive API call costs when you voluntarily decided to pay for hosting and streaming Petabytes of video and images.

>>bshipp+77
And their hosting is REALLY bad. Videos have NEVER worked right for me on Firefox and it's been years with no progress.

The redesign is basically unusable for me. And it's astounding how much data it has to pull down compared to old.reddit.com even with ads blocked just to load a page.

Like, it's just really shoddy work from the ground up. If hosting really was the problem, there's a LOT of lower lying fruit for them to clean up.

>>Engine+Pc
I did try to watch videos on the official app and it was bad, I tried changing to 3rd party apps and I was blown away that you could actually watch videos with it.

>>bshipp+77
Yeah, very odd move considering how difficult it is to get profit out of hosting images and videos on the internet. It like they had this massive cost neatly externalized and just decided to take it on instead. Even though no one asked for it.