Wish you could take reddit functionality along everywhere you went? While our up/down arrow stickers are still in production, there's already a digital - free! - way to have the alien along for a ride in your Firefox.We've relaunched the Socialite page here on reddit with a new twist. We jazzed up the design a bit, but also added a bacon-colored button that we understand chromakode - the redditor who built this Firefox addon - is rather pleased with.
It's a way for you, if you've enjoyed your Socialite experience, to donate some cash to show him you appreciate his work (it's like a digital dap). Naturally, you can still download (or continue to use) the application for free, but this has been a request we've heard around the community.
We looked at the AppStore model Apple has developed with notable success. As a developer for Apple, you receive 70% of each sale. That wasn't good enough for us, so 75% of your payment is going right to chromakode.
The remaining 25% goes right to keeping reddit's servers running. In the interest of full disclosure, there's also a small portion of that going toward our office bacon & coffee fund. This keeps our humans running.
After benefiting from open-source for years, we open-sourced reddit in June 2008. Since then, we've enjoyed a number of benefits, not limited to security improvments, nifty spinoffs, and holiday cards from Richard Stallman.
If you're a developer with a great idea and would like to one day see your own reddit.com/awesomeappname -- dig into code.reddit.com and let us know when you've got something full of win.
