Hey siri, directions to Lunds.

Siri: here are directions to caribou coffee.

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The Siri team Needs to be fired.

It’s true…. It’s an answer…

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Siri thinks:

"Do they mean the Arianna who they call multiple times every single day, text every single day, navigate to their property every week etc. OR OR OR do they mean call "AA" who they have never ever called before…… yeah, let's go for "AA"………"

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Siri thinks:

"OK I wonder if they mean the Home they return to every single day for the past 2 years and which is stored in their Contact card, or this random street I found several hundred miles away which happens to have the same street name?… Yeah, they probably mean the one hundreds of miles away that they've never visited ever."

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Siri problem on a yacht

I’ve been away at college so I haven’t seen my dad in 6 months, we got together for all of last week though for vacation. I finally convinced him to get an iPhone one of the last times I was home and everything worked great. Now when we are together, we can set each others Siri off and we thought it was really funny. I was devious and used it to mess with him a few times throughout the week XD

Airplay speaker (Sonos), I invoke with hey Siri

Embarrassing

When you tell Siri to turn off the garden lights, it will ask to turn off the iPhone. Again and again.

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users. On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader. Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface . This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love. The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do?

1. Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

2. Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join us at our sister sub at /r/ModCoord- but please don't pester mods you don't know by simply spamming their modmail.

3. Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

4. Don't be a jerk. As upsetting this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.