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Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#142It's hard to generalize about Reddit because each subreddit is kind of its own world. If you want good discussion, go to where the good discussion is. What is terrible about the UX? Are you not using old.reddit.com? If you're judging by /r/all, sure, it's not much better than YouTube comments. As much as I hate this word, it's mostly "normies" with "normie" views. The cream rarely rises to the top, except on humor th…
> What is terrible about the UX? It's been a few years now, and they still haven't fixed so you can copy and paste text in their text inputs.
Are you using old or new reddit? I can't reproduce your issue on old reddit + RES. Copy-pasting stuff works fine.
I'm using Firefox 100 on Monterey, but I'm sure it worked on previous Firefox versions on Windows 10.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go to any popular subreddit and click the "gilded" tab at the top. At the top of this page it tells you how many months of server time "gold"s purchased in the subreddit paid for, you will be shocked. I've seen subreddits with less than 50000 subscribers who had enough purchases to cover 3 years of server cost. /r/aww alone paid for 772 years of server time according to their calculations. Reddit could go on indefini…
> Reddit could go on indefinitely as is with no advertising. I don't think the goal of tech companies is to just "go on indefinitely." Their investors need them to make billions of dollars.
Well of course, I was only responding to the point about whether the website made any money without advertising.
Given that the technology is solved, and the financing is solved, I wish there were a way to build such a website with such a community without the cycle always ending in its destruction for the sake of profit.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#144Mods. Whenever you see community/forums take the wrong turn - it's always mods. Reddit is now extremely leftwing, to the point of pushing communism and banning everyone with even slightest conservative view-points, and that's where mods come in - mods can ban account for life sitewide. This was the first mistake
Second mistake was banning and removing subs that were controversial and might or might not have been frowned upon by advertiser.
Old Reddit used to break news first, now reddit is just 9gag
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#145I can think of a couple major points that have caused massive culture shifts on reddit (some might say for the worse). There have been other temporary shifts/events, but I think these ones were longer lasting * The "Digg invasion", when Digg 4.0 came out in 2013. This is when reddit turned into mostly memes. Before that, the frontpage was closer to slashdot, but much more open conversation around it. (of course there…
> Reddiquette is no longer a thing -- if you don't agree with something you downvote.
That's always been a thing.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#146> Terrible UX If you're browsing on a desktop, configure your account to always use the old reddit experience. If you lurk without an account, use old.reddit.com. If you can, install RES, it's a game-changer. If you're browsing on mobile, don't use the official reddit app. It's garbage. Use one of the many 3rd party apps. Personally, I use Bacon Reader. Don't bother ever browsing /r/all. Tailor your subscriptions to…
> If you're browsing on a desktop, configure your account to always use the old reddit experience.
I've had the option turned on since the day they offered it and it's never worked for me.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#147You call it degradation, Reddit calls it "explosive growth". The UX redesign was hugely successful in attracting new users, users who could then be monetized. The "useless answers" are wildly popular responses because people generally prefer to meme, not solve problems. Your complaint essentially boils down to, "Why do people not behave how I want them to?" and that, my friend, is a question as old as time itself. Fr…
I think they legitimately thought it was an improvement. The guy responsible for it actually started a thread here to show off. The comments were pretty rough.
Link?
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What is terrible about the UX? It's been a few years now, and they still haven't fixed so you can copy and paste text in their text inputs.
Are you using old or new reddit? I can't reproduce your issue on old reddit + RES. Copy-pasting stuff works fine. I'm using Firefox 100 on Monterey, but I'm sure it worked on previous Firefox versions on Windows 10.
I'm specifically talking about new reddit. Old reddit is fine. Old reddit basically just has a .
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#149I find searching reddit for niche things to be at least useful enough to point me in the right direction on some topics. But wow, discussion, even the small subs can be pretty toxic. It's sad as I'd love to have better discussion around various topics but every post feels like I'm walking on egg shells. My theory is just that if anyone can join, and everything is anonymous and there is no barrier to entry [1], qualit…
HN is easy to join, but is heavily moderated and doesn't put up with much crap. And manages to avoid most the toxicity. Probably because most political discussion is avoided.
That's a good point, need to remember all of the work the mods do.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
#150I can think of a couple major points that have caused massive culture shifts on reddit (some might say for the worse). There have been other temporary shifts/events, but I think these ones were longer lasting * The "Digg invasion", when Digg 4.0 came out in 2013. This is when reddit turned into mostly memes. Before that, the frontpage was closer to slashdot, but much more open conversation around it. (of course there…
The pandemic was a big one. I was already getting tired of the 0 effort posts on Reddit. Once the pandemic hit, it seems like that kind of behavior exploded. I left and haven't looked back.