The title is a bit clickbaity but the article is worth a read. To keep it short:
- large subreddits stopped protesting
- 1.8k subreddits are still in the dark, but those are rather small
- [from the article] “Though the Reddit team likely caused permanent damage to the platform and its relationship with users, Spez got his way. But that victory might not mean much.”
IMO it was a Pyrrhic victory. Sure, the protests ended, and most users are still stuck in that shithole… but the reputation damage won’t be reversed, Reddit managed to seed its competitors (as this one) with the necessary userbase to make them functional, and odds are that Reddit will keep going in its death spiral. And that doesn’t even take into account the amount of bad press that it generated, that will hurt IPO numbers for sure.
I still run out of new posts by the time of my last break at work but we’re well above the threshold of usability, and it’s only uphill from here.
Activity dropped down quite a bit from when I wrote the above and now. (I’ve noticed it, too - now I’m running out of content sometimes.)
It’s fine in the long run because of something that you said in another comment, corporations making rash decisions.