Don’t know if it is expensive for reddit but the link works at the time of this posting.

  • RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    In theory you could wait for evidence that this costs them time and effort, or you could do it proactively. In the situation where it doesn’t cost that much, it doesn’t cost you much because it’s literally two buttons. In the situation where it costs them time and effort, well that’s the goal so awesome.

    As someone who works as a software developer, I know that not all “automation” is created equal, or set up correctly, or “fully” automated. Considering they give themselves 7 days to do it, they are likely responding in a ticket queue of some sort, so even if it’s not super time consuming, there likely is manual intervention somewhere.

    It’s two buttons on our side. It’s worth it to me. Also, this way I can copy down my history somewhere off Reddit, so that I can search it myself without going back there.

    my 2c

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it costs them money out right but i think they’re backend is hosted at aws. All these requests need processing power. That’s where the increase in cost to them comes from.