tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.
This is a god damn embarrassment.
Every chance they get they do something to tell us “PLEASE HATE US MORE”
I haven’t looked at reddit in a couple of weeks. I’m done with them.
What a pathetic, desperate move.
If you ever needed evidence that Spez is completely incompetent, or that Reddit are totally willing to milk users for every cent with zero remorse, this is it.
I would have loved attending the meeting where they decided which were the most ugly icons possible.
It’s impressive how little self-respect they must have to block their own branding behind a paywall. I don’t even get how it could be a good business strategy, I feel like it would very badly affect the perception of quality for a new adopter.
Do iOS users care about the app icons? Every time I hear about iOS it feels like aliens.
iOS user here. I only care if the app icon changes and I can’t find it for a minute. But then, I think most phone and computer personalization features are unnecessary.
I’m confused, are you saying you don’t care about the icons at all? Like if they all look like complete ass you wouldn’t mind?
I’m also confused as to why you singled out IOS users, as Android literally has a built in system to change each and every icon yourself for free. If nobody cared that wouldn’t exist.
They have to look different from each other so that I can find them but otherwise no, I do not care how the icons look and I have never met another android user that does either. While there are third party launchers for android to customize your user experience and they allow you to change icons I have never met anyone that uses launchers exclusively for that purpose.
The reason I am talking about iOS is because that is what we are talking about. iOS has a system to pay for app icons and Android doesn’t. Paying $5 for an app icon is alien territory for me.
IOS has no such feature, what’re you talking about? This is exclusive to Reddit, and technically Apollo as a donation system. Apple didn’t make this, and it’s not a system level feature. Reddit made this, and you access this nonsense within their own app.
Also, congrats, you now know an Android user who cares about what their device looks like. I’m genuinely surprised I’m the first though, as the level of customization Android offers makes for an ideal place for those looking to customize the look of their device.
Btw try not to use so many strawman arguments in the future. I never said people used third party launchers exclusively to change icons, for example. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, but figured I’d let you know regardless.
I still find it weird that people care about icons but I find you weirder for getting this upset about it.
Where did it seem like I was upset?
Did they rip that off of Apollo or were custom app icons a thing before?
Yes they existed before
Reddit promised to make their app better when they killed all the third party ones.
That’s what they meant. Holy shit.
How do you like the smell of despair in the morning?
I find it… Exquisite
Laughing. My. Mother. Fucking. Ass. Off.
All they had to do was say, “ok, third party apps can stay for premium users only” and I’d probably have Reddit premium now. Instead I deleted my ten plus year old account along with all my posts that weren’t mod announcements (so only two didn’t get deleted).
Instead I’ve fucked right on off to Kbin and Lemmy and all is well. Fuck Reddit and MOTHERFUCK Steve Huffman the stupid pig boy.
Laughing. My. Mother. Fucking. Ass. Off.
All they had to do was say, “ok, third party apps can stay for premium users only” and I’d probably have Reddit premium now. Instead I deleted my ten plus year old account along with all my posts that weren’t mod announcements (so only two didn’t get deleted).
Instead I’ve fucked right on off to Kbin and Lemmy and all is well. Fuck Reddit and MOTHERFUCK Steve Huffman the stupid pig boy.
Same. I used to pay for premium even though I was an Apollo user. I paid because I liked Reddit and thought it brought me value.
Now I’m only keeping my account to ensure my posts and comments stay dead as best as I can.
The new ugly icon kinda matches the new content quality.
Underrated comment
They must be absolutely desperate for money.
Yep
Here’s what I don’t understand. Your platform is extremely popular, to the point where you’re worried you’ll hit saturation. Sure I get that.
But at what point do you decide “I SOMEHOW need more money, I’m running out of people.” instead of being like “we’re gonna make this service so good, everyone will have to go through us”
Netflix did this as well. When they hit a critical mass of subscriptions, they had really good shows. Instead of saying we’re gonna stay the best streaming platform out there, they went “NOO yOU can’T ShaRe youR PasswoRds yOu SILLY person”
It’s desperate and pathetic, and companies which fall this way will get no sympathy from me.
Lmfao, they made the DEFAULT icon a paid option?? What the actual fuck?
Apollo icons were the gold standard.
Lmfao
what a great way to encourage a mass uninstall
