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Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by bonestamp2 »

Andrex wrote: post #96
bonestamp2 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos. That's not entirely true... the redesign has some moderation and content submission improvements. But, if you don't mod or submit content then you might not notice those improvements. That said, like digg, the redesign is also missing a lot of features that old.reddit has. So, if they don't want to digg v4 themselves (which is w…

> That said, like digg, the redesign is also missing a lot of features that old.reddit has. So, if they don't want to digg v4 themselves (which is what made Reddit popular to begin with) then they have to at least keep old.reddit around until there is feature parity. It was less the features or lack there-of that drove Digg users away with v4, and more the change in culture around news websites being "official" and a…

I guess it probably varies by user then. Some of the features I used everyday were gone so I finally decided to have a serious look at reddit. I had never taken it seriously before because it looked awful by comparison. But, once you got past the poor design aesthetic, it was a much better community. So, as much as I like old.reddit, I don't blame them for improving the design, it is a turnoff for anyone who is design savvy.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by rchaud »

paulintrognon wrote: post #104

That might be a dumb question but why all companies are trying to grow outside their core product? From what I see from the comments, all previous attempts from Reddit to extends to new domains have more or less failed. Shouldn't they just invest and focus into making their core product better, slicker, faster, instead of absolutely trying to conquer new territory?

Because the core product doesn't make money.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by notyourwork »

politelemon wrote: post #45
notyourwork wrote: post #28

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> 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 think you're right. Part of the clue is in the name 'old' which in the IT world is often associated with something you'd want to remove, tech debt, baggage, staleness. What they'll be looking for is the right messaging to force a migration to new. In a similar vein, there is Adobe Lightroom Classic. There are still people who aren't giving in to Adobe's predatory subscription model, but at some point the "Classic"…

Exactly, when the cost outweighs the revenue benefits for the deprecated solution it is easy to justify killing it.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by kettro »

h_anna_h wrote: post #98
somehnguy wrote: post #55

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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.

Why not just use a 3rd party client?

If they’re going to deactivate old., I imagine they’ll kill the api too.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by CyberDildonics »

sushid wrote: post #122
CyberDildonics wrote: post #88

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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.

Wouldn't that either save them money in the short term or be a result of their money troubles and not the cause?

I don't see how that connects to a wildly popular site that should take up minimal resources having problems with money. Even with text ads and terrible payouts they should have a lot of money to play with.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by bonestamp2 »

somehnguy wrote: post #97
bonestamp2 wrote: post #78

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> The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos. That's not entirely true... the redesign has some moderation and content submission improvements. But, if you don't mod or submit content then you might not notice those improvements. That said, like digg, the redesign is also missing a lot of features that old.reddit has. So, if they don't want to digg v4 themselves (which is w…

>That's not entirely true... the redesign has some moderation and content submission improvements. But, if you don't mod or submit content then you might not notice those improvements. But the only reason that is true is because they consciously left those new features out of the old interface. The improvements for moderators could be added to the original layout just the same. For actually using the site the old des…

> they consciously left those new features out of the old interface

Sure. But to be fair, that is true with most new versions of any software... the developers could always commit resources to adding the new features to the old version too, but they're trying to migrate users to the new version so they don't have to commit resources to two versions.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by CincinnatiMan »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #125
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 ha…

Hmm, Reddit seems purpose-built for very recent and fresh discussions compared to a forum, where a thread could be active for years and years. I'm not sure I'm buying the 404 thing.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by mjklin »

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

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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.

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