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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by DangitBobby »

kingcharles wrote: post #95
greenknight wrote: post #82

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This is the thing, i hate their new ui... and if ever they get rid of their 'old' ui I would leave reddit. Their "New UI" was brought in in 2018, and to me was like a digg moment. To me, Hackernews is what Reddit was 10 years ago, just without subreddits. Clean top quality content.

It's weird. I was a huge user of Reddit from its launch to 2013 when I fell off the Internet. I didn't use it again until 2021, so I had a big jump in UI. As a UX designer I really don't get all the hate about the current interface. It works great for me.

Try navigating the comments from a post you found in a google search while not logged in.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by naravara »

edoceo wrote: post #105
thundergolfer wrote: post #64

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I use Reddit daily, and for the last ~week their UI has added multiple things to click and be taken to my 'Reddit recap', which I think is supposed to be like Spotify's 'your year in review' feature. Reddit's product managers very much want me to check out my 'Reddit Recap'. Well I've navigated to my recap about 30 times now in the last week, from multiple links, in app and desktop, and it's still totally broken. On…

This is all their attention grabbing tricks -- by MBA style middle managers to juke the stats for their OKRs and KPIs. Reddit is to that part of their life-cycle where the soul gets crushed out for the capital (it's a re-run, you've seen it before). I'd wager $1 that over the next few years Reddit becomes even more of an Attention-Vampire (or tries to) It's almost feeling Reddit, Facebook, Twitter -- these "social" e…

I don’t know if there will be a “next” one. I think these vampires will be with us for the foreseeable future. There will be a separate “enthusiast web” (maybe out of the fediverse but I’m not gonna hold my breath) but it’ll never get big enough to go fully mainstream.

Already the real action is happening on chat apps these days. These are your discords and slacks and clubhouses. In them I see the vitality of the old IRC and forum culture eras.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Flankk »

Trasmatta wrote: post #48
post_break wrote: post #34

Will they be banning porn like tumblr? I know they removed it from "All" and then I believe they hid it in other ways. Just wondering when the Digg 4.0 / Tumblr will happen to Reddit. So far it's been a slow burn but I'm waiting for the great purge to bring down the house. It always seems to happen around an IPO.

The day they shut down old.reddit.com will be the day the site dies for me. I feel like it's inevitable that it will happen at some point.

I deleted my 14-year account when an admin suspended me for speaking my mind. Never had an issue up to that point. The content quality has declined dramatically over the years and the astroturfing is out of control. I just got sick of it.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by kgwxd »

0x0nyandesu wrote: post #127
toomuchtodo wrote: post #86

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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.

This but also don't use any email previously associated with any account cause they will go and blacklist your new IP too.

Better yet, don't give them an email address at all. The UI would make most people think it's required, but it can be left blank. It will nag you for a while to add one too, but that banner can be removed with uBO.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by romwell »

wyldfire wrote: post #139
romwell wrote: post #98

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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 co…

Note: you don't have to be logged in to use https://old.reddit.com

All you have to do is learn to type "old" instead of "red" in the address bar, and your browser will do the rest.

Kind of like typing "n " probably brings you here, and typing "p " brings up, erm, Pinterest.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by imgabe »

Man, what a ride Reddit must have been. I wonder if any of the original team are still there, or if they still have any equity.

One of the first useful things I ever programmed was a Greasemonkey script to collapse comment threads on Reddit before they had the ability to do that. They implemented the collapse feature a few weeks or months later and made it useless. I still like the way my script worked better though, it left the top comment visible.

I wish I hadn't deleted my original Reddit account. It would probably be one of the older ones around by now.

I saw yesterday that gilding in /r/AskReddit have paid for 868 years of server time. It seems like they might be able to make a vanity payment model instead of just advertising. That would be nice. If they made the old.reddit.com interface available by subscribing to Reddit Gold only, they might make a fortune off of just that...

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by wussboy »

yalogin wrote: post #79

This is not good. The only reason I am still using Reddit is because of the old.reddit.com interface. Feels like an IPO will make them retire it at some point.

I’d actually welcome that. I spend exactly 15 minutes a day on it, and getting rid of the old site would be just enough to cut the cord forever.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

naravara wrote: post #136
romwell wrote: post #98

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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.

For that, there's i.reddit.com

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by tzm »

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…

At this point, I've learned to expect this type of criticism on HN.
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