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I've given up most social media but have become obsessed with Reddit. No matter how much I use it, I'm constantly amazed that I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subject I care about. I'm not a fan of the redesign or their push to look at other social media platforms, but I understand the direction they have to go to build revenue.
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It's easy to get such connections with half a billion active users.
I'm actually quite amazed at this. I thought Reddit had gone the way of Digg some time ago. Isn't it mostly manufactured content these days? I certainly remember it had that feel about it at certain times in the past when they were trying to paper over a mass exodus.
It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years. (Edit - as pointed out in replies to this post, this is an unfair characterization fueled by my recent frustrations with the direction the site is going. I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that reddit is failing the expectations of their users, but I don't doubt for a minute that the individuals working…
They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well. I used to occasionally visit /r/watchpeopledie as a reminder of my own mortality and some of the horrors of the world, but apparently NSFW wasn't enough for people visiting "watchpeopledie" to realize they might see something bad. So they "quarantined" it, which actually means totally breaking it, in my browser at least. RIP. Discussion by others here [0] "I'm…
What really grinds my gears with this is the fact that you cannot see quarantined activity via the API. If you browse a user's overview on the website, you'll see comments/posts in quarantined subs with a "quarantined" label. But if you fetch the exact same data via API, the quarantined activity is simply not returned at all, even if the account is opted in to the quarantined subreddits. There is no way to retrieve this data, and as a result, my bot can't block users that hail from these cesspools...
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You had me believing that reddit was a bad place to work. When you complain that the CEO gave drugs to an employee in a cabin I started to question if your opinion matches my value system. When you were shocked they hosted other points of view then I completely changed my mind because reddit is a place for all viewpoints and thought reddit is starting to sound like a great place to work. Sounds like teams are impleme…
To your point about viewpoints: Reddit is pretty demonstrably not a place for all viewpoints. Note that I'm not making a normative comment here, I'm just stating a fact: in most of the mainstream and default subreddits, there are a variety of opinions you really can't express without being downvoted. As for the thing with the CEO giving drugs to someone in a cabin...I think you should interpret this a little more hol…
IMO you should be able to express any opinion, and of course you'll be downvoted if you are a bigot or a religious nutcase
Right now Reddit is going full censorship, which I hate
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Seriously? I just assume most people on there are in high school, it seems like a place where the lowest common denominator ideas get upvoted and everything else gets nailed.
I've also yet to find a subreddit I like. I admit I haven't tried recently, but the "high school" vibe is very much the one I get. I don't even mean in a bad way, I just mean in a very naïve way. I came of age on the internet, as a teen in the mid-90s, and I just feel like, 20+ years later, I've moved beyond the "everything is new" phase, and reddit still feels like everyone discovering things for the first time. Whe…
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They could have funded 150 startups for 10 years and created 1500 highly motivating startup jobs with that money but instead it will just maintain the status quo, pay Reddit engineers to be corporate cattle and allow reddit to be as innefficient as ever.
>They could have funded 150 startups for 10 years This round is 150-300mln. How do you fund 150 startups for 10 years with 2mln per startup?
It seems that investors in the US have gotten so used to paying high economic rents and financial middlemen that they have lost track of the real value of money. 2 million is an enormous amount of money.
I could build an entire reddit from scratch for 100k. Scaling to millions of users is not difficult these days. I could even build an entire cloud platform from scratch for less than 200k on top of Kubernetes.
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A comments section on a news site doesn't need high performance UI controls or native notifications.
The fact that Apollo exists and is popular (though, I personally don't think its controls are native enough) means that this isn't really true.
Until then, not being much of a phone user at all, I'd been convinced that mobile experiences were always worse than desktop ones.
I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem. The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push…
Don't forget their still live email signup approach. Clicking 'Signup" brings you to a single email form field screen that in no way indicates you do NOT need to provide an email. Clicking 'Next' without entering one lets you create your username and PW without an email address. As a marketer, I understand (but don't condone or agree with) the thinking behind some of what they've done, but as a user of over a decade,…
Hell, I'm more ready to call it an easter egg than deception.
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> I'm saying that I don't want to pay for it and I'd rather they suffer than I do. Glad to hear you admit it. Money > humanity. You can advocate for whatever you want, just like I'm free to tell you that it's a horrible idea that's only justification is to "punish" people you think deserve it.
No. My humanity is more important to me than others. I have to take care of myself because I know others would resent me if they had to take care of me. I'm sure you wouldn't be thrilled to provide for me if I came to your house with my hat in hand. And you feel the same way - we're just arguing over where to draw the line. If you save any money that could be donated to those in need, you've also put money above huma…
And as a society-level thing it makes sense to fund with the general tax fund. Charging the countries of origin does sound like it should be attempted though!
Trying to fix every problem in the world is more fraught. We probably should be trying harder, but there are severe issues where throwing resources at a poor country invites corruption and can be worse than doing nothing at all.
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2 things about Reddit's "use our app instead!" buttons: 1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around 2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren't sure which button will just take you to the damn website I don't mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me
I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.