Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.
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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
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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 Why? Why is this accepted in our society? Why do we have to overdo everything we do? To keep expanding in every way until we're met with opposition (of whatever form)? It is our nature as a dynamical system I guess. But why can't we just relax and chill for a change? Why do we work our lives away for things that do not matter?
Because they are a for profit business. As opposed to HN, which has a much more user friendly interface because this is not a for profit site.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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As a counterpoint, almost every single news story about China, Taiwan or Hong Kong is flooded by users from r/sino and accounts with suspicious histories all using whataboutisms, ad-hominem attacks or just plain old disinformation to change the narrative into a China friendly one. As others have said, the astroturfing is not even subtle.
As a counter-counterpoint, anti-China voices seems to have calmed dramatically right after the US election ended. Suggesting there was much more anti-China astroturfing around election season. Which is expected considering Trump's entire platform was anti-China, and there's much more anti-China shills than pro-China shills. I too have noticed more pro-China voices on worldnews, but I've monitored and tagged via reddi…
>But they do have better rhetoric and are more invested in the debate
For anyone unfamiliar with r/sino:
They believe the Tienanmen Square massacre was justified
They believe the Uighur concentration camps are justified
They believe an invasion of Taiwan is righteous, and there is generally a lot of extreme vitriol directed at Taiwan and the Taiwanese
They believe in and spread a lot of misinformation concerning the HK protests, and there is generally a lot of vitriol aimed at Hong Kongers
You are banned if you question the CCP at all, with a most ridiculous ban message.
They are just as bad as r/t_d was.
Being anti-ccp is also not being an ignorant hater. Looking at their actions, it is a pretty reasonable stance.
Also, should be of note to other HN users, there is a reddit account with the name "dirtyid" which has a pro-CCP bias and a very strong anti HK democracy stance.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#254Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.
Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it. Not to mention YouTube channels that get millions of views where they just read AskReddit threads with the same jokes those people make literally every single thread.
> Politics is fine.
Politics is fine if it's discussed like it is on HN†: level-headed arguments are debated, discussed, and, if a consensus isn't reached, we can agree to disagree. Reddit is polluted by absolute political drivel, except for a very small subset of subs. Low-effort "Trump is bad" posts that get massively upvoted just gets old after a while, especially when you see it every single day.
† HN has been historically center-libertarian (which is a bit of self-selection by entrepreneurial folks), but recently started leaning much more left, no doubt due to an influx of non-startup-founding users.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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The only useful thing to me is to append "Reddit" to some Google searches for certain niches. occasionally it brings up a post describing exactly what I'm looking for. It's always an old post though unless I'm searching for the latest in the US Democratic party's talking points, then I can just go to Reddit.
I used to do that, but lately it seems to ignore my "don,t use new layout" setting, which makes the pages largely useless to me...
Welp, this extention is a must have for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307961
And Relay on Android.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#256Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.
Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it. Not to mention YouTube channels that get millions of views where they just read AskReddit threads with the same jokes those people make literally every single thread.
> Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it.
I don't go to Reddit for content, I go for the community. That doesn't seem right because the perception is that Reddit is highly toxic, but it sustains a lot of life when you look closer.
There is a particular health-related sub-reddit that I discovered after a diagnosis and while it is highly imperfect it was a lifeline and something I spent a lot of time contributing back on. In about 20% of threads it spun off to PM threads and discussions continued over days. I see this pattern across the site, even though my bookmark goes to r/programming.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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> 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?
I hate the new UI but I have to use it daily to get the WYSIWYG interface. Otherwise I have to convert my google doc to markdown before pasting it in. But I only use it for posting and then go back to 'old'. Most of my browsing happens from Apollo (iOS indie dev reddit client). That said I'd put effort into writing my own google->markdown->reddit-poster-script in a heartbeat if it meant killing off "new" and going ba…
The "reddit enhancement suite" add-on gives you a WYSIWYG editing UI on the old site.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#258Why is Reddit’s UI still getting worse? I have to click a link like 4 times on mobile for it to register, and I get errors for about 20% of links. Sometimes links take me the comments and not the content for some reason, particularly with images and videos.
So.....why are you still using Reddit? Genuine question.
It’s probably....out of habit?
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#259I wonder if Reddit is hitting the same issue as Twitter did with regards to third-party apps. Like Twitter, Reddit has a robust API that allows for really full-featured apps to fetch/post content, which is great as a user, but horrible for monetization.
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point third party Reddit clients end up getting neutered much like Twitter apps have become. Given that the mobile site is turning more inaccessible without registering for an account, it certainly seems that way.
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Redditisfun is the only thing that has kept me on there (and I'm still pissed somebody stole my username). I haven't accessed the desktop site in years, because it defaults to the new reddit. It smacks of when /. changed their layout; there was a huge to-do and users lost their mind. I haven't been back there in, what, 9 years? I guess, the moral of this story is, what is the reddit replacement? Because so far I have…
There is no replacement, the tight-knit community is just gone. When slashdot made beta permanent some users tried to spin off the old design (soylentnews is the only one I remember now) but it never caught on. It's like when a favorite local family owned burger joint shuts down and is replaced by a McDonalds. It serves many more people but the core community and values are gone.
> (soylentnews is the only one I remember now)
Pipedot was another. I think there was a third attempt, but I can't remember its name (or even be sure it existed).