I know it has become a massive cliche to say this and I usually don't engage in this conversation, but I think in this case it's legitimate - Reddit has 1,800 employees?! How?! I worked at a well-known mid-size tech company that had around 15 consumer and B2B products and employed 2,000 people and it felt bloated.
At the end we all suffer from the loss of information. In the past we had forums where long articles incl how-to were pinned and online for years. Today we might find about 20-30 discussions all saying the same thing flooded with trash.<p>Another platform after reddit will just dilute it even further.
The death of forums and knowledge for shortterm ad-revenue driven success.
And make 25% of the volunteer mods soft-quite/rage-quit.<p>The people who most need tools & help to make Reddit a good place are just getting totally completely hosed by Reddit's API changes. All around the internet, we're seeing so many new moats & fief-makings.
> Huffman said the company would also reduce its hiring for the rest of the year to about 100 people from an early plan of 300<p>So still a net increase in total workforce? Is this just restructuring? Like reducing IT positions and hiring more in marketing or vice versa?