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Of that 52M how many are bots, and how many are their toxic subs?
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Yeah, the new Reddit design is such a step back in terms of both performance and user experience. It was probably optimized in some way to increase engagement, but it's just really bad. On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.
Probably unpopular opinion on HN: but I really prefer the new design. finally something that doesn't scream "we have a sub-culture" but rather welcomes new users.
On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).
I've been an everyday compulsive reddit user for 12 years. The day they kill old.reddit.com is the day I stop using reddit forever.
Of that 52M how many are bots, and how many are their toxic subs?
The cycle of social media I guess.
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Probably unpopular opinion on HN: but I really prefer the new design. finally something that doesn't scream "we have a sub-culture" but rather welcomes new users.
What is it about the old design that screams "we have a sub-culture" to you? For me, it's just a clean, simple, fast interface.
Reddit is following the steps of Facebook: copying other's features. They have a live streaming platform, they added something similar to discord for chats. what's next?
Reddit has really been emphasizing its social aspect lately, so I wouldn't be surprised if it introduced a Friends/Followers section and shifted towards a more personalized front page.
On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).
I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage. Normally I don’t express such strong sentiment on HN but I’ve been a Reddit user for 10 years and I genuinely like the communities, but not enough to suffer through the new website.
Sometimes links take me the comments and not the content for some reason, particularly with images and videos.
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honestly, i don't know anyone that really uses reddit's chat feature. most communities have their own discord server by now.
They just discontinued subreddit chat rooms too, which was a massive embarrassing back-tracking on a highly controversial feature. https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/jwme40/deprecating... Reddit's whole philosophy with chat was just to shove it down everyone's throats, and see if it sticks. The spammers loved it right from the get-go, but nobody else is using it.
Of that 52M how many are bots, and how many are their toxic subs?
One good solution to this problem is as following:
* In order to post content, accounts must be purchased based on a spot fee. For example, if suddenly 10 fold more people want to open accounts then spot price will rise to 60 dollars from a base price of 6 dollars.
* This can be done through BTC payments instead of dollars to protect identity of account owners a bit.
* Users should be able to hand-select moderators and if wanted, review their actions transparently. This will eliminate all unfair moderation and provide huge value to users. An user still can get banned by a moderator but only people who subscribe to that moderator will assume user is banned.
* As accounts are bought to post content, there won’t be any advertisement. There might be some subscription fee though.
* All this can be done in a decentralised framework to increase resilience.