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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by anoncow »

romwell wrote: post #98
paxys wrote: post #47

Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

https://i.reddit.com is where it is at. I hope they don’t disable this.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by romwell »

jolux wrote: post #110
romwell wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

> The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls that walk into it. This would be reasonable if there weren’t subreddits that are totally broken on old.reddit.com and proclaim loudly in their sidebar that they no longer support it.

Aside from disabling custom CSS being an option, I haven't ever stumbled into that problem.

Could you link to an example? In curious :)

Re: Reddit files to go public

#133

Post by senectus1 »

thrwy_918 wrote: post #25
beeskneecaps wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old.reddit.com with redditenhancementsuite.com extension is still the best way to browse. I'm impressed that they've kept the old UI for so many years. The usage must be significant to keep it around.

I honestly don't understand how people use reddit using the new UI, or even using the old UI with custom subreddit styles enabled.

completely agree with both of you.

old. and RES is my method as well

Re: Reddit files to go public

#134

Post by GekkePrutser »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #86
plasticsoprano wrote: post #78

Reddit has me on some sort of ban that causes accounts to be permanently suspended within 24 hours of account creation regardless of what I do with that account, even if it's just make it and leave it alone. Also, anyone that comes to my home and connects to my wifi and then their reddit account will find their account permanently suspended within 24 hours. I've reached out to them multiple times to see what is happe…

Have your ISP cycle/release->renew your IP address. Don’t attempt to sign in to any of the previous accounts from the new IP. Should avoid their anti evil team’s tooling as long as you’re not causing trouble.

Except it pushes the problem onto someone else :). Though yeah I'd probably do it too in the end. Not everyone uses Reddit anyway

Re: Reddit files to go public

#135

Post by tfehring »

romwell wrote: post #98
paxys wrote: post #47

Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

I've used the old site exclusively since the rewrite (and for a long time before it), and https://old.reddit.com specifically is still the most unreliable large commercial website I can think of by a wide margin. It's fast when it works, but I get orders of magnitude more 5XX errors on https://old.reddit.com than on any other site I can think of.

Re: Reddit files to go public

#136

Post by naravara »

romwell wrote: post #98
paxys wrote: post #47

Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

Unfortunately old.Reddit is not actually a great experience on mobile.

Re: Reddit files to go public

#137

Post by bryans »

zaptrem wrote: post #111
bryans wrote: post #92

Reddit is operating on the shakiest house of cards, and their investors are being swindled, along with their advertisers. For one of many examples, they're grossly inflating viewership numbers on Reddit Live by injecting the top broadcast into the front page of 25,000 users every ~30 seconds -- largely against their will[1] or without knowledge[2] -- and then selling those as "video views" to record labels, Adobe, Le…

People actually use PAN? As a heavy Reddit user (and mod in large community) this is news to me.

Despite the fake viewership numbers, RPAN is actually the best marketing tool on the internet for content creators. It's the only site that gives you a built-in audience without any effort, and musicians in particular have used it to build massive followings outside of Reddit, on the order of tens (and even hundreds) of thousands of followers. There's honestly no better way to find an initial fanbase -- even if you never get top broadcast.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by [deleted] »

foolfoolz wrote: post #18
beeskneecaps wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old.reddit.com with redditenhancementsuite.com extension is still the best way to browse. I'm impressed that they've kept the old UI for so many years. The usage must be significant to keep it around.

it’s 10-15%. if you moderate a sub you see where people come from

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Re: Reddit files to go public

#139

Post by wyldfire »

romwell wrote: post #98
paxys wrote: post #47

Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

> You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com

IMO this has dual meaning. Of course, the (new reddit) UI is not my preference for sure. But the content on (not logged in) reddit.com is just so unbelievably different from what I see when logged in (to old.reddit.com). Therein lies the dumpster fire. I've had thumbnails disabled since forever ago, and picked a handful of subreddits across a couple of multireddits. I never really understood why people would think Reddit was anything like Facebook or any such similar site. Until one day I saw what it looked like to everyone else.

Reddit for me looks a lot like it looked back in ~2004, but with comments :)

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by pingsl »

paxys wrote: post #47

Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…

I once ran some ads on Reddit to promote my website. What I found from the ad report was 99% of Reddit users were using the mobile app.

So I am afraid Reddit won't care about the web UI much now.

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