This is simply stupid. Their most important brand element, behind a paywall.
Doge? Seriously?? This whole Spez following Elon’s footsteps is almost as cringe as Elon himself.
it’s like they want people to leave
Right?
Can’t have the plebs communicating and organizing freely on the likes of twit or redd!
All comms must be filtered through the fair and totally unbiased lens of corporate news media. Those millionaire anchors and billionaire C-suites are on our side, after all.
Can’t have the plebs communicating and organizing freely on the likes of twit or redd!
All comms must be filtered through the fair and totally unbiased lens of corporate news media. Those millionaire anchors and billionaire C-suites are on our side, after all.
Does just spez just sit around all day thinking up ways to piss off the most amount of people in the shortest amount of time?
But let’s be honest. The people still frequenting Reddit clearly don’t care about the shitshow that place has turned into and aren’t likely to be turned off by a new app icon.
It seems most of the idiots that like to suck spez dick all like it as a tiktok alternative so they can feel superior to tiktok viewers.
Lmao
What the…? It’s such a nonsense business move. The app store now shows this pixel icon when you search for the Reddit app. At first glance, it looks as if it was some shitty clone or something, not the original client.
Imagine charging for a fucking app Icon.
God mobile markets are such absolute shit.
Reddit is shit, I’ve deleted all of my accounts. I’m not defending them at all. However, didn’t third party apps literally do the same thing? Where you could buy different themed icons?
Yeah but it usually was a „support the dev“ thing.
For example, Apollo (RIP) had an okay icon to begin with, you could choose from a few free ones and if you really liked the app or a specific icon, you could buy it.
They didn’t intentionally make their standard icon shitty to bully you into paying for a decent one
This insane behavior is directly enabled by Apple.
True story time:
iOS has never, to my knowledge anyway, allowed changing icons on stock iOS ie not-rooted/jailbroken devices.
After a decade of stock icons they released the shortcuts app that allows for creation of… shortcuts.
Some crafty fuckers figured out quickly you could create a shortcut that was placeable on the home screen and could completely replace an the original app in function. Basically a shortcut that you tap and it simply opens some app, any app, and that’s it. And you could give that shortcut any image you wanted. Just download a cool .png or recolor the original one, whatever you wanted. Sounds cool. A shit-ass, annoying work around to an obvious QoL addition (making icons changeable on per app basis or allowing icon theme packs like android has had since forever).
So story over, people have a work around? Wrong. Apple specifically went out of their fucking way to add this little notification. A small one, but so fucking annoying, which was never there before and cannot be turned off by any non-root access means (so far anyway). Now when the shortcut is run it says like “automation complete” for a second and disappears. There is SPECIFICALLY an option under the shortcuts and automations in iOS to disable those types of notifications but they seem to have added it (because it wasn’t there before, confirmed by old videos where people explain how to set it up before updates broke it) as a giant double middle fingers up fuck you to customers. There’s clearly no reason to not be able to disable that notification completely when you can disable basically every other notification (oh, system update pending can’t be turned off either- gotta make sure you update constantly so you can’t accidentally have a root-able phone one day and escape such bullshit! Oh no!). They’d probably claim safety or it’s a bug or some bullshit if they even bothered to acknowledge it, which they never have and it’s been several years now.
My only conclusion is app makers cried that they wanted to sell the ability to change icons (or Apple took it upon themselves since they take 30% of that transaction anyway). Or it could actually be a bug. If it’s a bug they have never acknowledged it despite certainly thousands of reports over all the versions of iOS. Not even a “oh yeah that’s not intended. But it’s low priority.” Just silence, so, gonna have to go with the obvious option here. They fucked it as a fuck you to users. Might as well be spez at the helm.
kinda sad to see when apollo had community made icons which all looked cool
Along with everything else wrong with this: your icon is literally your brand, and you want your branding to be flawless + everywhere.
This would be like Nike putting an ugly pixelated version of their logo on cheaper sneakers to encourage you to buy more expensive ones; whatever pocket change they made from upgraders would be dwarfed by the damage it would do to their trademark.
This. This is what most baffling. Why hide your main icon, your BRAND, behind a paywall? It is simply idiotic. They are really desperate for cash.
OUR APP ICON WILL LOOK SHITTY UNLESS YOU PAY US MORE! HAHAHA!
I seriously don’t understand how they think this will increase sales.
Teenagers and poor students love paying for things, right? Right?
The only thing I can come up with is when reddit was shitting the bed most egregiously, all of the news outlets were showing the app icon in images/thumbnails. Perhaps they wanted to distance a bit from the bad publicity?
Not that having a Doge button is any kind of brand recognition. I’d argue it’s juvenile for such a “grown up company”, or whatever Spez said about adult business, hehe.
A doge themed icon? That idiot really is slurping up Musk sauce and emulating everything he did with Twitter.
A decade old meme is perfect for this
Like when Twitter replaced their logo for their April fool’s (which was a couple days late because probably the genius in charge had the idea at the last minute and the remaining h1-b hostages couldn’t push it in time)
fuck spez, viva la fediverse
actually though how do you justify charging for your normal bloody unaltered logo lmfao
i see why they suddenly decided to destroy third party apps 💀
How does he get to charge for the original icon? How the fuck does that even happen?
To be fair, it’s not the only free one that works. Narwhal still works, as do a couple others
Wtf, who’s coming up with these changes. I’m legit impressed with how many bad PR moves they can make back to back
It’s like they are taking advice out of Musk’s playbook on how to blow away money.
He’s gotta keep up with his dream daddy Elon.
I got the new icon, and I thought it was going to be tied into some promotion or something. You know, “We’re going 8 bit for a month!” But then nothing ever came - no promotion, no explanation.
