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Reddit puts its plans for paid subreddits on hold

Reddit is reversing course on its plans to put some subreddits behind a paywall, at least for now.

During the company's recent earnings call, Huffman said that Reddit was "deprioritizing" its work on "user economy" initiatives in order to put more resources into turning the site into a "go-to search engine." "The folks previously working on user economy will join our efforts to improve the core app, including onboarding and personalization," the CEO explained in another AMA response. While Huffman has spent the last year hinting at paid features, it's not hard to understand why Reddit would now be shifting away from that model.

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