All what, 13 of them? And still going after the Apollo developer, who seems to have laid himself bare. Weird.

I’ve definitely been in that position where you put your heart and soul in to a project, and then it gets ripped away from you by forces beyond your control. It sucks, and it can really kill your joy for that kind of thing. I doubt he’s going to want to get involved in another social network, and it sounds like he already has a new project he’s excited about.

…what?

I’m still not clear what the alleged threat was, that the app would… make API calls? earning reddit money? That Christian would say unfriendly things about the company that screwed him? What threat is an app developer to a corporation? It’s just patently absurd.

Too bad they fired their dedicated AMA coordinator.

I don’t think they will, but even if they did I kind of suspect the apps will still shutdown, they all announced their shutdown at once, I am sure they discussed amongst each other and reached a line in the sand with reddit. If I got that sort of treatment, even if they backed down I’d never trust them again, I’d never want to work with them again and I don’t see how that sort of situation is tenable. So they could completely abandon the changes and still have achieved the result they want. However, at this point they’ve already vilified themselves to those who will ever care, so there’s no reason to back down at all.