Facebook makes $32 per user per year. That is across all billion+ users worldwide. They make around $170 per user in the US And Canada. No non-advertising monetization strategy will come close to that number. Assuming 10% of users pay (which is a very generous assumption) you'd need to have each user in the US pay $1700 per year!!!!
Reddit’s disrespectful design
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#82Does anyone else want to rant about Reddit’s AMP pages that show up on Google? Oh I could go on about it…
The managers at Reddit, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the preferred experience of a Google user searching for content on reddit should redirected to their wonky app. And if they don’t have the app, they should be punished with modals upon modals. “Reddit looks better in the app!” Oh, you disagree? Well press this tiny button to indicate your unsaved preference and we will allow you to view a preview of the thread you came for. But…if you can find the illusive button which shows the whole thread, we will grant you full access — after asking you to install the app again!
It’s enough to make the designers of the Get Smart door scene collapse in embarrassment knowing that their parody has become the reality of every unsuspecting person who just wants to browse Reddit.
And while I have you here, please tell me what’s going on with the Reddit’s scroll positioning when navigating out of the site. Just by clicking a external link in a thread, you’ve not only lost your position, navigating back to Reddit will tease you with the last version of the page before everything refreshes back to the top.
And God forbid if you keep a tab open up for too long, encountering the most obnoxious error screen imaginable. “Ouch! Something went wrong. Refresh!” Yeah, something did go wrong. You broke your site. You killed the golden goose. You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy Digg, not join them. Bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that basically Medium?
> moderators I suggest to compensate creators not moderators.
If you think moderators won't take advantage of their position to get a cut of that money then you're living in fantasy land. Or just sell their accounts to others who will do that.
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#84Really, I wouldn't be using it without RIF and the old style
The new layout reminds me of a mix of 9Gag and Facebook (this is not a compliment)
At the same time the non-mainstream subreddits are insightful and informative (and of course there's a bit of dopamine rush as well).
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#85There was a time when Google search would punish sites like this… enable competition… reward smaller sites… I really wish Google would start de-ranking behavior like this.
Does anyone end up on reddit through google searches?
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#86We need a delete reddit meme just like delete facebook.
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#87Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#88I have to laugh at the use of the word "disrespectful." As if one could expect a corporate entity in a market economy to respect you, personally.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Third scenario: People keep using it in anger until something better shows up, and by that time there will be enough unhappy people to spark a growing community in the New Place.
If that were true, it would've happened long ago. Say what you will about reddit's questionably/shitty policies, but they do a pretty decent job of keeping the extremists/racists/crazies/etc contained. Nearly every attempt at a reddit alternative over the years has been flooded by those types of people. Even if you ignore the fact that advertisers will avoid that community like a plague, the average person will want…
> Nearly every attempt at a reddit alternative over the years has been flooded by those types of people
Yes, most of the time because they have advertised themselves as a "free-speech place". Of course the people these places attract are the "5G is a Jewish conspiracy to vaccinate everybody" kinda people
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#90Not a power Reddit user here. I only stumble upon random posts that search engines throw my way when I'm looking things up so I might very well be missing something.
The main questions: Considering all the bad practices, why people keep using Reddit and what makes it so great? Why people make custom clients instead of looking for a full-fledged alternative?
The questions are genuine, not a sarcasm. The following is just a rant and emotions, feel free to ignore.
My questions mostly come from these thoughts:
- As far as I'm concerned, it's people that bring value to online forums, not the other way around. Established communities must have no issues moving wherever.
- Creating a huge online forum (even from scratch) has it's challenges, but ultimately isn't the most complex engineering task.
As we live we learn to accept the fact that everything we love eventually dies. Not being an active user I might see it differently, but to me it looks like the forum (the technical part of it!) that people knew and loved is dead.
Why workarounds? Isn't it the time to move on to creating/finding something new instead of feeding the corpse-milkers and digesting whatever they spit back? It's a glorified database client, not a secret non-replicable alien technology.
Edit: reading the other comments I came to realization that Reddit must mostly serve community leaders (who most likely use alternative clients) as a discovery mechanism. And content-consumers would do whatever it takes to consume however inconvenient. I can see how that keeps people there, but don't clearly see why there is no popular alternatives. I guess it's really hard to gain the critical mass in the online-forum market.