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Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by subpixel »

sorenjan wrote: post #22

Reddit is searching for something, but I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits. They've added and removed community chat rooms [0], they still have some other kind of chat that I don't know if anyone uses, when I happen to visit new Reddit there's some kind of streaming broadcasts that I don't see anyone liking. And of course the redesign, but I suspect that…

Reddit is an example of a product I'd pay for less of. Give me basic functionality, simple UI, and no growth hacks. I'll give you an annual subscription.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by sushid »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #88
eznzt wrote: post #19

Wasn't Reddit in severe money troubles, to the point where they were struggling to find good engineers?

I don't understand how a site with massive amounts of traffic for mostly text pages can end up having money troubles. There are so many ways both clean and dirty to monetize a site like that.

They underpay like crazy and don’t allow for any negotiations when it comes to comp.

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

awakeasleep wrote: post #74
mrits wrote: post #66

It's easy to make fun of UI changes but... reddit on mobile without using their app is near unusable. You can't see all the comments and both the top and bottom of the screen is telling you to use their app.

I use it on the desktop too, but mobile is where old.reddit.com is actually a _requirement_ for me

For desktop I agree.

For mobile:

reddit.com/.compact

Realistically old.reddit.com on mobile is usable but you end up having to pan and zoom all the time.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by birdsbirdsbirds »

flancian wrote: post #100
somehnguy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

I wonder if there's an opportunity here for someone to snag a domain such as oldreadit.com (it's available right now) and set up shop, ready to offer disgruntled old.reddit.com users a new home when it's inevitably turned down/broken further -- or earlier. Perhaps use Lemmy, which is trying to evolve into a distributed (federated) architecture: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy The gimmicky name would not be needed,…

The absence of a reddit competitor on the open internet despite reddit's flaws suggests that the technically advanced users have already reassembled somewhere on an .onion domain. If the old.reddit.com users had the means to start something new, they would have done it a long time ago.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by hombre_fatal »

harryf wrote: post #6

Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1ag/why_ar... ... what I wonder if whether that's a lack of engineering effort by reddit or more missing peering agreements or both?

Reddit introduced image/video hosting to fix the problem of all Reddit submissions eventually linking to content that 404ed.

That it’s not the best experience doesn’t completely damn it. A slowly loading video is better than a 404ing video in Reddit’s trove of aging but still relevant topics.

Also, users complaining that it’s not as fast as Youtube (your evidence) doesn’t mean it’s “not working out for Reddit.” It has perf/UX issues but it’s a huge boon for the users that click in to a topic with a video that would have otherwise 404ed.

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Post by deepspace »

realbarack wrote: post #112
sorenjan wrote: post #22

Reddit is searching for something, but I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits. They've added and removed community chat rooms [0], they still have some other kind of chat that I don't know if anyone uses, when I happen to visit new Reddit there's some kind of streaming broadcasts that I don't see anyone liking. And of course the redesign, but I suspect that…

I've been a Reddit user for about a decade and I really love RPAN, the streaming broadcast you refer to. I often find really interesting music made by talented artists, and I appreciate that the performances are done in a kind of off-the-cuff, low-key way.

Yes, I have never been much into the whole streaming thing, but for some reason, for now at least, RPAN seems to be hitting just the right amateurish tone to keep me engaged.

Though I dread the day when the people who made the new front page UI turn their attention to RPAN...

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by rchaud »

madeofpalk wrote: post #106
mskslal wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The redesign was a massive success. The goal was to turn reddit into a typical social media property, and it worked. Real conversation was pushed aside into niche subreddits, and was replaced by typical social media filler crap, like r/funny and pics and wholesomememes, etc. It was bad before, but I just feel like the redesign made it 100x worse. Try opening the reddit homepage, new design, no account, and tell me wi…

> Try opening the reddit homepage, new design, no account, and tell me with a straight face that that is a place where serious, well-thought discussion happens. This has nothing to do with the new design. If Reddit was ever a place for “serious, well thought discussion”, it hasn’t been that way for the past 10 years.

Perhaps for you. I joined in 2013, and wouldn't know half of what I do if it weren't for conversations on r/webdev and r/web_design. Such topics would have been shut down on StackOverflow because it broke some cardinal rule that nobody except people that spend all day on SO would know about.

That's just for work related things. In terms of having conversations about relationships, or sports, or new phones and tablets, I wouldn't even think of having these anywhere but Reddit.

Granted, I don't spend time on r/pics, or r/teenagers or whatever is on the front page. But I don't click the "Trending" tab on Youtube either.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by notyourwork »

saurik wrote: post #102
notyourwork wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> forever I suspect a Reddit PM is watching a usage of old.reddit.com metric and waiting for it to hit a certain threshold before canning it. Perhaps the migration has taken longer than they planned but I have no doubt in time old.reddit.com will be retired.

I 100% understood that, which was in fact the background of my thesis: it looks like they are going to be forced ("relegated", even) to maintain old.reddit.com forever because, explicitly, so many people aren't upgrading and the new design isn't succeeding in motivating these people to upgrade (even years later!). I mean, someone else on this thread noted that the new design seems to only have twice as many page view…

They aren't forced to do anything, if a small enough minority of users goto old.reddit.com they will willingly deprecate it due to the cost reduction. Sometimes a small hit is beneficial even if it harms your customers because of the reduced operational cost. Simplifiers allow you to do a lot of things faster.

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Post by somehnguy »

birdsbirdsbirds wrote: post #124
flancian wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if there's an opportunity here for someone to snag a domain such as oldreadit.com (it's available right now) and set up shop, ready to offer disgruntled old.reddit.com users a new home when it's inevitably turned down/broken further -- or earlier. Perhaps use Lemmy, which is trying to evolve into a distributed (federated) architecture: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy The gimmicky name would not be needed,…

The absence of a reddit competitor on the open internet despite reddit's flaws suggests that the technically advanced users have already reassembled somewhere on an .onion domain. If the old.reddit.com users had the means to start something new, they would have done it a long time ago.

I very much doubt the conclusion that a lack of clearnet alternative means people have assembled on TOR. That's ludicrous honestly.

There have been a number of reddit alternatives over the years, typically the result of some act of over-moderation that drives angry people to alternatives. These always become cesspools of hate & racism because they advertise as 'free speech' alternatives (due to swinging too far in the opposite direction that drove people there in the first place).

I think most people who want to use the old interface are simply just using the old interface. Until they completely drop it I don't think that will change. Because anyone can start a reddit clone but it's useless until you can convince a mass amount of users to switch & stay there, which is extremely difficult.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by cube00 »

gruez wrote: post #43
cube00 wrote: post #3

Please don't make us install that app to view videos on Reddit, we deserve the best.

Ironically that's one of their CTAs when they're nagging you to install the app. "Install the reddit app because you deserve the best"

Glad someone got it, I always found it ironic that their nag popups say we "deserve the best" when I would have thought "the best" was an optimized mobile site like i.reddit.com
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