Reddit is garbage now. Every remotely interesting discussion gets locked by moderators. Every interesting subreddit gets deleted. So you’re left with content that is diluted to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It’s sad, it used to be a great place to read intelligent discussions from a variety of perspectives, a lot like HN is today but with a broader scope. But today that’s gone.
Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#142On 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.
I have pledged this to myself, to the extent that I've been laying out plans to leave the subreddits I moderate.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?
One has to actively try to use Old. So, usage is being reduced by attrition (but attributed to design success). So, apathy looks like successful KPIs.
New UI sucks. Forgets settings, frequent load errors (which blank out an already loaded content) and hit-boxes for clickable items are small/overlap which increases page hits (cause you nav to the wrong page). It smacks of a hasty rewrite in $HOTFRAMEWORK.
I use reddit less because of it. And a result of that is I've also reduced spending to reddit.
Edit: reduced advertising spend, not award spend (which was already zero)
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#144On 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).
Absolutely. I greatly enjoy Reddit but am unable to use the new interface.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?
From the article:
>Reddit Inc. said it averaged 52 million daily active users in October, up 44% from the same month a year earlier
The redesign launched in 2018, so I'd say yes, the general public greatly prefers the redesign if they had almost 50% growth last year. Could there be other factors? Sure. But Occam's razor is a solid argument in this context imo.
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#146Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…
I think the biggest existential risk to reddit is their mod structure. There is no effective mechanism for getting rid of bad mods, users just have to spin off into a new subreddit.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business Why is an inferior UI good for any business? Unless it's about some dark patterns?
To the majority of users it is a superior interface.
Source? If you made old.reddit.com the default layout, how many users do you think would go through the same trouble to use the new.reddit.com layout?
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#148Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…
Correct. Reddit is ~75% (whatever) fake comments/astroturfing by hired companies and foreign operations to move policy and commercial goals. Its only going to get worse now that AI speech tools are so powerful. Entire articles with amazing context are written by computers now, they can obviously do the same with comments and probably are already in use.
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#149Of that 52M how many are bots, and how many are their toxic subs?
The great thing about toxic subs is you don't have to subscribe to them! I don't see anything "toxic" on reddit. Just people having fun discussing the latest episode of "Below Deck" or sharing cat pictures, etc.
If you ever view all the toxic stuff flows to the top.
I found myself getting really angry needlessly and had to delete my account. I'll browse subs like Unity though.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using reddit since the big Digg 2.0 migration. It is disappointing to see the popular/frontpage subreddits become such a bubble. In r/pics, for example, most of the top pics have a clear political slant. I'm not sure how much of that is intentional propaganda versus just what happens when content is based on how a majority of its users vote. I miss the days when it was mostly harmless advice animal memes.
Oh it's most certainly propaganda combined with karma farming. Ever notice how there is a steady steam of anti-trump content, contrasted with pleasant photos of Obama with a title harkening back to the good old days of his administration? You'll also notice that these posts get savaged in the comment section and yet still have 80% positive upvote ratings? If you see something you suspect is propaganda on r/pics, just…
The most noticeable switch happened in 2015 before the election; it was like night and day. Propaganda companies were hired and went to town and all the default subs were taken over. Elections are every 4 years so they are on permanent hire now.