• bcron@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I just glazed over it but I’m pretty sure they took gold away and reintroduced it like this solely to get more people off the old desktop design and onto the mobile app

    • But like why would anyone do that? To see someone else giving someone else imaginary internet points they bought for real money? How doest that justify having to deal with a terrible UI, poor performance and videos not fucking loading properly like it is 2007?

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        11 months ago

        I feel the same way but they probably aren’t targeting people like us. If 95% of people think this change is dumb and don’t download the app, there’s still 5% of people who’d consider downloading the app and it’d be a pretty significant number of people. It’s just my hunch that they removed the original gold subscriptions in order to remove the ability to go ad-free, brought it back as a mobile app-only thing to get more people on the app. IPO is coming up, any padding of the numbers will help, that kind of thing, even if it’s only a couple percent