Two months ago, they enabled comment saving for Gold users. Both features have been available for a long time via the free Reddit Enhancement Suite plugin.
At this rate, I'm thinking that by 2017 reddit will port over all Reddit Enhancement Suite features as paid content.
Edit: As one user pointed out, reddit has also opened up a gold feature (karma by subreddit) for general use after this announcement.
So, this is fine. If you mean this as a "how interesting that they would do this" post or a "well, why is this happening" post, that's fine. But one of the reasons I got away from Reddit in the first place was because of people on it hating on other sites. It's another website, and they make their own decisions. If you like it, use it. If you don't like it, don't use it. It is that simple! Don't make Hubski the "Reddit" to Reddit's "9gag." Don't make Hubski the "Reddit" to anything! If you're upset about a Reddit feature because you think Reddit's going to shit, maybe post about it on Reddit. If you think a Reddit feature will start an interesting conversation, post it on Hubski! And if you think Reddit's going to shit then I cannot emphasize enough how much you don't have to use any of it, or even just the parts that you find most offensive. It's not a requirement!
I'd say: I think you may actually be reading to much into StephenBuckleys comment :) . He's not really laying any blame at your feet, he's just heading off a conversation that will likely start in this environment. So I wouldn't worry about it.
At the same time, they made it so non-gold members can also view their karma breakdown by subreddit, a feature that was previously gold-only.
Slightly bizarre that I would read about this first here, rather than on reddit. I don't understand how this useful though. Aside from having your settings stored server-side, does it offer anything that RES doesn't?
Yeah, that's what it does, but RES already does it for free.
I'm pretty glad that I bought gold on reddit. It seems to really help the development of new features that I get to use and has helped the site improve. If hubski started doing something similar I wouldn't mind if it helped improve the site and all users got the features eventually.
Don't read this as a personal attack, OP; you can post what you want because that's the nature of hubski. But I wish people would stop sharing any and all posts about reddit. "reddit added a new feature" is what this post boils down to. Almost everyone who uses reddit follows the blog and announcements, I think, and anyone who doesn't obviously won't care about a new feature. I think there's a certain groupthink about reddit that's spilled over because so many of our users are reddit ex-pats. Let's just skip all that, yeah? /2cents