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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by muyuu on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:18AM (#35602060)
This is what lack of competition in a given niche makes even possible. They can afford many explicitly anti user patterns because for a bunch of usages, they have no real alternative.

When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there.

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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by tazjin on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:08PM (#35605084)
> When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there.

This is definitely just a matter of time, they're slowly moving there by killing off things like `i.`. They'll lose a bunch of "us", but overall it's probably not going to affect their bottom line. Some specific high-quality discussion subreddits dying out means nothing if there are dozens of multi-million user subreddits with generic memes or TikTok-reposts.

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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by muyuu on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:43PM (#35605555)
yep, I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet

they've been insufferable for a long time, and on mobile I've completely given up on them

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