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Reddit used to put their source code on GitHub and people would go in and help fixing bugs or use it to understand the quirk of the system so they can better integrate their 3rd party apps and bots. I still can't believe they threw away all of those community goodwill.
We saw it as community, they saw it as free labor.
I still can't believe they threw away all that free labor.