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The Reddit Blackout How Bad UX Triggered a User Uprising.

· Sarowar H.
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We are observing perhaps one of the biggest damages to a company for not prioritizing its users. While Reddit’s official app continuously failed to provide a good user experience and meet its users’ needs, third-party Reddit clients continued designing the apps, putting the users front and center.

The newly announced Reddit API pricing is designed to kill third-party apps, forcing users to use the inferior official app. As a result, Redditors declared a black out of more than 8,000 subreddits!

Learn more: https://sarowar-hossain.medium.com/the-reddit-blackout-how-bad-ux-triggered-a-user-uprising-2d1b9643a68