Damn they really hate their users
You mean customers
The users aren’t customers. They’re the product they offer to their customers.
Their customers are investors and ad agencies.
… well to be fair nobody should have used those as long term storage solutions. But they still could have been nicer and more clearly announce their intention so people who care would have gotton a chance to save their stuff. - Just posting it in some changelog doesn’t sound very noticable.
This is Reddit we’re talking about they don’t do reasonable requests such as “advanced notice”
I wonder what their reason would be to do this? Are they just trying to get their users to dislike them more?
Data storage/hosting isn’t free…
They’re definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it.