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Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by Traster »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #135
sushid wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If all the people you hire are rubbish because no one good would accept your salary it’s very easy to see how you could fail to monetise.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by dlvktrsh »

aparsons wrote: post #30
isoprophlex wrote: post #8

Reddit has always been shit since the redesign: broken scroll, broken video hosting, dark patterns up the wazoo. I wonder if/how soon we'll see a degradation to similar poor usability in dubsmash, or if the people working there can manage to hang on to their product as it is...

Also their pathetic attempts to get you to use the app are half-baked. The deep links are broken most of the time and just send you to the app store even if the iOS client is installed, where you press open and it takes you to /r/all regardless of where you came from.

it's so hard for me to contemplate how they can not fix this. You restrict everyone from viewing your website unless they install your app then a basic redirection to the said app doesn't happen.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by KMnO4 »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #80
pletsch wrote: post #33

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I expect features to just stop working on old.reddit as we get further away from the redesign, whether it be updates internally or full new features. This will continue until it gets unusable and then they'll kill it because 'nobody uses it!'

On mobile they already limit how many comments you can view and force you to sign in otherwise.

Signing in doesn’t remove the limit. They want you to download their app.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by dlvktrsh »

Rainymood wrote: post #119

venture capital at work ... I hate that I have to click to old.reddit.com, it's like they try to force me with everything they have to use the new reddit which I hate.

there are extensions that force old.reddit.com that u could use on most of the browsers

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by shard972 »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #136
somehnguy wrote: post #97

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>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.

Thats not a good reason why the new one is an improvement, that the old one could have had it but we had to make a whole new one instead.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by chanmad29 »

saurik wrote: post #26
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 mean, a sizable enough number of us continue to use old.reddit.com that it seems like they realize they can't force us onto the new design and are relegated to maintaining the old one for essentially forever... which to me says something incredible about just how badly their design failed.

Am I missing something here? old reddit on iphone is just unusable- need to pinch zoom for everything. I so much prefer the new one at least on mobile.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by fastball »

john-state-moz wrote: post #92
fastball wrote: post #85

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Reddit's entire experience was always gonna be shit, it just takes a lot of users for that to become obvious. Echo chambers, flame wars, brigading, etc. – all were inevitable results of the way the entire platform is structured, and are far worse than the UI having more whitespace.

Have any better sites you recommend? I initially joined Reddit because ideas appeared to be valued over individual users (no follow at that time).

Not really, unfortunately.

If I knew how to make a Reddit with all the positives but none of the negatives I'd probably do it myself haha.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by CyberDildonics »

Traster wrote: post #141
CyberDildonics wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If all the people you hire are rubbish because no one good would accept your salary it’s very easy to see how you could fail to monetise.

That seems like a stretch, reddit is estimated to have around 4 to 8 billion page views per month. Even the slightest advertising should bring in 10s of millions of dollars per year.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by monkpit »

Supermancho wrote: post #115
monkpit wrote: post #58

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On the opposite side of that, why should Reddit make their search better if everyone already knows not to use it? Google works just fine. Spending the money to improve and code a new search function doesn’t gain them anything. They’d just lose money on the implementation.

> Google works just fine. How do you search by most recent on Google? What does that even mean in the context of searching for web-page content? Google's search is severely lacking because it's targeting a platform that has no uniform index. This is part of what keeps the public misinformed.

I fairly regularly use the “search tools” option in google to filter results to within the past day, or month, or whatever.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by Supermancho »

monkpit wrote: post #149
Supermancho wrote: post #115

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> Google works just fine. How do you search by most recent on Google? What does that even mean in the context of searching for web-page content? Google's search is severely lacking because it's targeting a platform that has no uniform index. This is part of what keeps the public misinformed.

I fairly regularly use the “search tools” option in google to filter results to within the past day, or month, or whatever.

Thats not the same as ordering by content posting/creation. Thats by indexing pass.
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