Hah. Yes, we felt the same. We would make every effort to make change painless, and people would complain violently. It didn't help that our website was the perfect platform for complaining about change to your favorite website.
But at the end of the day we knew it was usually just a vocal minority, and when that wasn't the case, we would roll the changes back or make further changes to address feedback.
Over time we learned it was better to release new stuff as beta and let people self select if they want to use it (hence the continued existence of old.reddit.com).
But at the end of the day we knew it was usually just a vocal minority, and when that wasn't the case, we would roll the changes back or make further changes to address feedback.
Over time we learned it was better to release new stuff as beta and let people self select if they want to use it (hence the continued existence of old.reddit.com).