I used baconreader, it was always ad free, so gold never actually did anything at all for me, they were always useless.

I thought that was the whole point of killing 3rd parties… either you get the feed full of ads that pay them via clicks, or you pony up for the gold.

The gold system allowed reddit to collect revenue from payers to give premium to non-payers. Basically it meant a non payer could pay. They’re eliminating that aspect. They’re reducing the number of people that can have paid access…

I don’t know what their intent is, but removing gold isnt logical, and it’s doubly illogical since the disabling of third parties increased the relevance of gold dramatically.

It’s like they went out and set up a T-ball stand and put the ball on it to set themselves up for a nice home run, and are now walking up and kicking the tee out from under the ball. Dafuq are they thinking?

I refuse to download their shit, and as such, I have no access to it. I don’t visit reddit on my computer, never have, never will.

Bacon went tits up at around 7PM pacific for me, and that was that. My last post was a farewell message to one of my subs, and I don’t even know what my last comment was. The baconreader icon still sits on my top 4 buttons at the bottom of my phone screen, and I’ve opened it first thing in the morning once or twice since, but it’s borked, and that’s that. I’ll put a Lemmy reader app there once I decide which one it’s gonna be…

C’est la fucking vie reddit.

Perspuritated

I still open baconreader once in a while out of habit.

There’s a little message about “hey sorry but reddit fucked us”, then I remember there is no reddit anymore and I wander off :)

Former baconreader user. Made a Lemmy account specifically to upvote this ;)