Barry Schwartz regularly posts Google updates on his site[1], for over a decade no less. Since August 2023, those updates have been reaching the 500 mean comment range with many updates reaching 700-900 comment range. And this has been happening for 8 straight months!
People have been robbed of their livelihoods and many have caught strays, with the culprit being that Reddit, Quora, and LinkedIn have tripled/doubled their traffic.
I just don’t understand why Google can’t create a Discussions panel and let people decide what they want to view as opposed to flat out cutting creators off at the knees.
No content creator thinks to themselves, “let me go write my next article on Reddit”.
Now they are throwing AI in the mix also which is probably the dumbest thing they could have done, but I get why they are doing it.
I hope it clicks for Google soon that they are “fucked” and will never recover users they lost to OpenAI, etc.