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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by KallDrexx »

noir_lord wrote: post #73
KallDrexx wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To offer an opposite argument, I hated reddit before the redesign and always take "old." out of links. Every reddit looked like a geocities offering to me, they were inconsistent in coloring and contrast and all the bullshit I don't care about. Non-old reddit gave me a more consistent and less distracting way for me to quickly browse subreddits and posts I'm interested in and getting out.

with old.reddit.com when logged in you can opt out for subreddits been able to override the CSS then you get the vanilla and clean defaults everywhere. I use it as my "whoops, forgot to login" reminder.

I didn't know you could do that, I'll give that a try.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by warrenm »

Am I the only one on HN who likes the new desktop look'n'feel?

From the smattering of comments I read here today... it seems like it

I also find that the subs I'm in are of decent-to-high quality - though none are especially large/high-traffic (ie they're all pretty niche)

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by warrenm »

Sunspark wrote: post #154
NonNefarious wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The mods on subreddits are a problem" An absolutely site-killing problem. If you actually try to pursue specific topics on subreddits, you find they're administered by a bunch of babies wallowing in their little sandboxes and throwing tantrums for no apparent reason.

No election campaigns either, they are all dictators-for-life unless reddit head office decides they need to be involved. This is the same issue IRC has. In the old days, if you were lucky, sometimes you could unseat a tyrant, but modern IRC channel ownership is enforced by the server itself. This is part of why I like Twitter, even though I haven't been active on it in some time. People have to opt-in to you on Twit…

> People have to opt-in to you on Twitter. It's impossible to be a tyrant on Twitter, you cannot compel people to pay attention to you there.

You can't "compel people to pay attention to you" on Reddit (or HN, Facebook, etc) either

Mute/block/ban exists on pretty much every social media platform (with the possible exception of HN (at least - I've never seen it hereon))

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by warrenm »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #26
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…

> 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.

I copy-paste all the time into Reddit ... what makes you think you can't?

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by warrenm »

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #52

>Terrible UX VC chickens coming home to roost, the inevitable ultimate fate of every single VC-funded startup >mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point) 1) reddit format is vastly inferior to classic forums for serious discussion. everything except for a couple stickied threads is ephemeral 2) the culture is dominated by repetitive low-quality humor…

> everything except for a couple stickied threads is ephemeral

I find ephemera one of the most enjoyable aspects of most social media - most of what's talked about is inherently time-based

Sure, it's helpful to be able to find some forum post or Reddit thread on replacing a freezer control board for your 2011 upright Frigidaire (not that that happened to me in the last week, or anything ;)) - but most topics are inherently short-lived

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by warrenm »

themadturk wrote: post #91

I don't use Reddit's mobile app, which is awful; I use Narwhal on iOS, don't see any ads, and am reasonably happy with it. I'm one of about two semi-technical Reddit users in the world who doesn't mind the new desktop browser interface. I guess I carefully curate my Reddit feeds, but I don't find it hard to find quality posts. I may just be good at ignoring the bad ones.

I use the Reddit mobile app - find it pretty nice, honestly :)

I also like the desktop interface, and curate what groups I'm in

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by dmix »

parineum wrote: post #60
rckclmbr wrote: post #23

I 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…

> Alternative views aren't supported, people don't want their views challenged. I think this has been the biggest culture shift and probably what you're getting at I don't disagree with this but I'm not sure what I'd consider a reasonable solution. One thing I will say though is that the moderators on default subs promote this behavior. If I were to try to change the situation, I think that's where I'd start. For exa…

It's fascinating to use https://www.reveddit.com/ for any of the big subs when a 'controversial' topic is posted. I've seen threads where 30-50% of comments were removed (in the thousands) and even the mildest critiques and disagreements of the topic would be deleted by mods, often faster than they can be archived.

Some of the bigger subs have 100+ moderators so people don't realize the massive scale of moderation going on.

The idea that comments get deleted because they are 'bad faith', racist, or whatever is wildly incorrect. Moderators act like editors of their own pet newspapers where the comments are the content.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by loceng »

Funded by the advertising industrial complex, captured, gamed, and manipulated by all industrial complexes including political and tyrannical, and take a peek at the last investment rounds and % of those rounds they took hold of.

My favourite subreddit?

https://www.reddit.com/WatchRedditDie

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by dmix »

tsol wrote: post #163
BitwiseFool wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/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.

Even a subreddit like /r/nba has become super political. Literally impossible.
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