I've been using Pandora for 13 years. I have thousands of songs and can't just switch to another app very easily, especially since the main thing I like Pandora for is constantly pushing new music based on my likes. I love the RNG aspect of it, I don't want to sit and listen to the same playlists all day long like most other apps do. The fact you took away the statistics is frankly confusing. Playback was a cool feature, and it's not like it's hard to keep track of these stats. As others have mentioned it's also free marketing. The only thing that could even logically make sense is if you got in legal trouble for "copying" Spotify wrapped. Otherwise it's a win-win for both users and the platform. A few years ago, you reset our stats, for no known reason. I had multiple stations with 3000-4000 hours listened accumulated over a decade, then all of a sudden my stats were reset around 2020 and now my most played is 700 hours. Why? Were you hacked? A reason was never given, just a boring PR response "our engineers are aware of the problem and are looking into it". Yeah well it's 3 years later and our stats are still wrong. You're trying very hard to push away your longest and most loyal members, and I just can't fathom why. Is this done on purpose, do you want your platform to end? If so just be honest with us so we can move on.
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