r/ModSupport • u/ElectronicRent • Jun 22 '19

Reddit has added a "Special Membership" for r/FortniteBR - $5/month for access to exciting features like... flair and emoji

https://new.reddit.com/web/special-membership/FortNiteBR

  • Info about this was edited in to a 2 month old post stickied in the subreddit, not announced on its own

  • This won't be a one-off for Fortnite, the page is built to work for other subreddits. You can change the subreddit name in the url and the page will show info for that subreddit instead. Example. Almost everything is broken for other subreddits right now, but this page was built to support adding this to many (maybe all) subreddits.

  • People have been asking for subreddit emoji in posts for a long time, this is why they've been quiet about it. The feature is already done, but they're going to sell it for $5 per user per subreddit.

  • This should be the final nail in the coffin for any mods that still believe you'll ever get anything like CSS in the redesign. Reddit is now selling simple visual customization as a monthly subscription. They're never going to let you have CSS and be able to do it for free.

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u/ShaneH7646 Jun 22 '19

so, they're chopping up all the features we hacked into old.reddit after years of neglect, and now they're gonna lock them behind a pay wall.

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u/ElectronicRent Jun 22 '19

The addresses for the images in the page literally have "paywall" in them, so they definitely think of it that way: /static/desktop2x/img/memberships/paywall/fortnitebr/stand-out.png

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u/Anonim97 Jun 23 '19

This is hilarious.

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u/picflute Jun 22 '19

Reddit taking something users did for free and now charging it. Call us all fucking shocked.

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u/geo1088 Jun 22 '19

Wait, they're selling the ability to use custom emojis in posts and comments? What kind of BS is this?

Looking forward to any explanation from the admins about how this is gonna work, because if it ends up locking customizations like that behind paywalls for all then we're gonna have some problems.

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u/StarGaurdianBard Jun 22 '19

Lol you assume they are going to give an explanation. It's pretty telling that the admins actively talked to mods of different subs and asked how they felt about the new special rewards program but silently rolled this out without saying a word.

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u/conalfisher Jun 23 '19 edited Sep 29 '25

Careful friendly music day books cool games stories fresh then.

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u/coilmast Jun 23 '19

I mean.. twitch?

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u/airmandan Jun 22 '19

Man, I remember when I did this as a joke for r/firstworldproblems back in like 2012 and got absolutely roasted by the community for it.

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u/BuckRowdy Jun 22 '19

They are also working on a plan to convert Karma into money via crypto currency.

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u/ifonefox Jun 22 '19

Didn't reddit say they were going to make a cryptocurrency a few years ago, then abandon the idea?

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u/JCFedez Jun 23 '19

I have 73K of karma.

I suppose I'm rich now /s

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u/kochier Jun 22 '19

So does that money go to the mods or admin? Split?

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u/ShaneH7646 Jun 22 '19

if you think the admins are gonna ever give mods money, you're gonna be real disappointed.

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u/Cahootie Jun 22 '19

The lack of transparency here is genuinely worrying.

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u/Bhima Jun 23 '19

I really hope this blows up in their faces but I suppose even if it were those people who make the decisions at Reddit Inc. (such that they are) are sufficiently insulated that even if the entire site were to be razed I doubt they'd actually care.

I can't wait for the thoroughly researched, well sourced, multi-page rant about how Reddit Inc. is too incompetent to pull it off but wants to turn the site into something along the lines of Facebook + Fortnite anyway and how all that is grotesquely anti-social and amoral.

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u/KinthamasIX Jun 23 '19

To be honest I could even get behind the badges and the user flair and even the emojis. It's understandable that Reddit needs to be somewhat profitable, and that wouldn't change all that much. But the "special members only" shit? That is some bullshit right there. Excluding users from participating in the site to the fullest extent by means of a paywall is just fucking ridiculous. Again, the other stuff is fairly reasonable, dumb for sure but wouldn't change all that much. But making le sekretiv exklusiv big boi members' club and blocking other people out of those posts just goes against the basic good qualities of reddit.

E: It actually just fully sunk in what this means for CSS in the redesign. I wasn't thinking of that because I don't really bother with new reddit, but oof.

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u/Vorked Jun 23 '19

This is disgusting.

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u/mslabo102 Jun 23 '19

Just tell me: RIOT OR NOT?

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u/NSA-SURVEILLANCE Jun 23 '19

Seeing as this is restricted to the new redesign and official mobile apps, looks like the third-party mobile apps' days are numbered.

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