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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:44PM (#23484418)
Reddit is smarter than digg though - they know they need to keep their legacy and leader users happy - because once influencers (real ones, not Instagram users) leave the site will stop being culturally relevant.

The fact they’ve kept the old site still running for so long (4 years now?) I think it evidence they’ll keep it around. I don’t think it’s costing them anything.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by samplatt on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:43PM (#23484734)
>I don’t think it’s costing them anything.

It's almost certainly costing them LESS, since there'd be less of a focus on development AND it'll use less bandwidth due to smaller preview thumbnails and no preview video... that's probably outsourced to a different cdn but whatever.

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