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Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years (www.forbes.com)

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 183 points 10 months ago

Research and development, at $438.3 million

What in the fuck has Reddit developed in the last year that cost half a billion fucking dollars?

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 116 points 10 months ago

The executive payroll

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 89 points 10 months ago

Hey, it's not easy to make a shitty new redesign of a site. That stuff costs money.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago

Twice

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 84 points 10 months ago

Remember when they killed API access claiming it cost the 10s of millions each year? Turns out they could have just not spent so much on reddit avatars and we'd all still be there today.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

They could have just paid the CEO a little less to cover it too. It was just greed so they could sell the data at a pittance, even though the cat is already out of the bag.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

I haven't seen that "you broke reddit" message in a while. Maybe they bought more servers?

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago

Because I haven't been back since the API Debacle...

FTFY

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

The two options to fix that are either buy more servers or make enough idiotic decisions to drive your user base away that traffic is no longer an issue anymore.

I wonder which one reddit opted for?

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

An ugly new logo, continued development on world's shittiest mobile app, and a terrible brand new UI for the website (not to be confused with the previous terrible new UI)

Oh yeah, they also did some NFT bullshit, almost forgot about that one.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

3d probably shouldn't be in logo's except mabye for the apple photos app because coloured glass

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Skeumorphism has entered the chat

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

they're selling the ability to harvest data, not provide a platform for anything particularly useful.. they are developing data harvesting tools, including for AI..

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Those stupid fkn icons or smth

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Let‘s see, almost 200 million to their CEO, almost 100 million to their COO. They also got a new logo!

Jokes aside I‘m as floored as you.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Monetization and adware.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Maybe they're bankrolling theDonald's NYC fines.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

They are paying lots of programmers. 99% of which are unneccessary, to enshitify the site with new features that subtract value for users.

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

They were giving reddit gold to everyone

[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

you think 'place' was free?

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

They gotta sell access to AI companies somehow.

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