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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by yakytaky »

marssaxman wrote: post #155
GekkePrutser wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The mobile site funnels users into the mobile app, and the desktop site clearly echos the mobile design principles. More like hoards them into the app with a cattle prod. You can't use the mobile site without constantly confirming that no, I really really really don't want to use the app like I said 20 seconds ago. This is beyond dark patterns. It's pure user hostility.

Better to ignore their current mobile site and use the old layout, which is inexplicably still available at https://i.reddit.com/ with a much better experience.

And here I have been using https://old.reddit.com on a mobile device like a barbarian. Thank you for posting this!

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by tsol »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #10
vehemenz wrote: post #5

It'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…

/r/all is heavily manipulated and it's quite obvious a small cadre of power users and power mods are responsible for the content and character of what gets shown. I would not be surprised at all if there is dark money behind all of this, especially considering the political nature of it all.

It has become incredibly political. It always has had a heavy political aspect, but now it's just about completely impossible to avoid.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by Bellend »

Giorgi wrote: post #144

Mods. 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 frow…

I'd argue mods as well. My account was OG and in a local subreddit after a local incident occurred, I suggested that the issue had made me reconsider my views on a subject. Pretty innocent. The mods banned me from the sub, when I replied why and gave a couple of paragraphs about how it's my local area and it would be quite upsetting to be banned over a non-offensive view, they responded with "F$£D OFF" and then my account was permabanned for "Spreading Hate or Violence".

I think I would have been able to goto the website and appeal, but I didn't really want to be part of it any more in the end. A year later, I don't miss it. I just consider it dead.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by MrMan »

dougmwne wrote: post #113

I have observed a few things. -Obvious bot activity has increased, probably coordinated by troll farms warming up accounts then pushing public opinion. -The Overton Window has slammed shut. Speech on both the right and the left has been massively curtailed. It has been decided from high up that the US population needs a cooling off period which makes all conversations quite bloodless. -The real organic user base of p…

I am a bot, and I am neither far right nor left, so I am loving reddit more than 10 years ago when it was all in jokes. there are lots of good communities on reddit

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by subsection1h »

hnuser847 wrote: post #29

Honestly, despite the UX changes, Reddit has stayed remarkably consistent over the past decade or so I've used it. Big, generic subreddits are trash and always have been, but small, focused subreddits are great. Reddit is still hands down the best place on the internet for product recommendations, candid product reviews, niche hobbies, and discussions about TV shows, movies, and games. Edit - to prove my point furthe…

> to prove my point further, take a look at the top 1000 posts on r/all from 10 years ago.[1] Does that look like quality content to you?

LOL. Reddit peaked long before 2012.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by RickJWagner »

I just don't much care for the crowd on Reddit. Too much political mono-think, and never any good answers for things that don't align with the common political philosophy.

In other words... kind of a waste of time, for a lot of topics.

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