In my opinion, it's a result of management not understanding what got them their userbase in the first place. Commercializing your platform to make it profitable is understandable, but they're basically going full 'corporate' which the reddit userbase absolutely despises. And according to most mods of major subreddits, they've failed to adapt and assist with moderation and tools for large communities. It's like they didn't respect the power mods of defaults have over their site, and in one fell swoop karmanaut cost them a large portion of their users.
To be honest I've been tired and annoyed the site and it's community for a long time now, only frequenting /r/dota2, so I'm not particularly affected by such a major exodus. But it's interesting, and kind of disappointing, to see so many companies make the same mistakes time and time again.
In my opinion, it's a result of management not understanding what got them their userbase in the first place. Commercializing your platform to make it profitable is understandable, but they're basically going full 'corporate' which the reddit userbase absolutely despises. And according to most mods of major subreddits, they've failed to adapt and assist with moderation and tools for large communities. It's like they didn't respect the power mods of defaults have over their site, and in one fell swoop karmanaut cost them a large portion of their users.
To be honest I've been tired and annoyed the site and it's community for a long time now, only frequenting /r/dota2, so I'm not particularly affected by such a major exodus. But it's interesting, and kind of disappointing, to see so many companies make the same mistakes time and time again.