aelwero

I’m the stupid new guy man, just pushing buttons to see what happens is all :)

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 :)

God damn bud, thats the best comment I’ve seen in a long damned time :)

It’s worse than it sounds… You’re not actually paying for ink, you’re paying for pages, in a similar context to how you used to pay for minutes for your cell phone.

A buck a month gets you 10 pages printed, 100 pages printed a month sets you back $6/mo, and so on.

The ink is shipped “free” when your cartridge runs out, and naturally, they figured out how to increase the ink capacity in the carts to be much higher than the ones they sell, so shipping a cart out will be much less frequent if you’re ponying up for each page you print.

Odds are it’ll be cheaper over the life of your printer as long as you’re a member of the residual income brigade…

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?

Y’all stfu already God damnit. And stay the fuck off my lawn.

I’m genX actually, I don’t give a fuck about the lawn ;)

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

Yes! Now queue up the rage comics :)

Perspuritated

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.