Reddit files to go public

Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 10:13 AM UTC

ggreer wrote: post #405

dredmorbius wrote: post #54

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One of the most important lessons about mass-use computer tools is that overwhelmingly people use defaults . I first realised this back in the 1990s when shitty default monitor resolution and refresh rate would literally inflict pain (headaches and eyestrain). MS Windows 95 / 98 shipped with a default of 800x600@60Hz. This was on CRTs, many viewed under office flourescent lighting, which gave rise to a bloody awful f…

I agree with your general point, but the specific example isn't as egregious as you make it out to be. In the mid-90s, protocols for determining supported monitor resolutions were just coming out. The first widely-adopted protocol was DDC2, which wasn't standardized until mid-1996. Had Windows 95 or 98 defaulted to 1024x768@72Hz, a significant fraction of users would upgrade and find their display didn't work. To get…

Post by TameAntelope » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 10:14 AM UTC

profmonocle wrote: post #153

riffic wrote: post #8

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they were spun off a while ago https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/reddit-just-raised-a-new-r...

> The capital will be used to redesign Reddit’s famously cluttered homepage, co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman tells Recode. The company also plans to pour more resources into user-uploaded video. Wow, time has not been kind to this paragraph. The redesign is still hated by a large portion of the userbase and the Reddit video player is infamously unreliable. I'm curious what happened behind the scenes here.

Post by unionpivo » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

Gareth321 wrote: post #457

INTPenis wrote: post #435

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Those tutorials can still rocket to the top of YOUR homepage. That's the power of reddit. That everyone can craft their own experience by subscribing to subreddits. So subscribe to the lisp subreddit and you'll see the content you want.

This concept is not long for this world. I've been a daily user for for than a decade. * [Your default sort and filter list no longer only contains content you are subscribed to.]( https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/m1pb9u/comment/gqgh82... ) * They continually "improve" the default (and Hot, New, Top, and Rising) sort and filter algorithm(s). Every day it contains less relevant content for you, and more content…

Post by majani » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 10:26 AM UTC

anyfactor wrote: post #258

henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

My personal last strands of hope for Reddit are - their API which is still available to public without hoops to jump through. The downvote button. And the usabillity of old.reddit. Some communities that are still well moderated and strikes a good balance between open to questions and not open to stupid questions. Beyond that I stopped using mainstream reddit as a value source.

Post by aahortwwy » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 10:32 AM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #495

shawabawa3 wrote: post #429

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There will not be "a metaverse" or "the metaverse" They may be some competing metaverses, I doubt one will win out (I kind of doubt any will do well)

my thought exactly. We've had virtual worlds and communities as long as we've had the internet, and the idea of carrying "stuff" from one to the other never worked out. So my bet is that there will never be The Metaverse just like there never was The Forum, The MMORPG, The MUD. We may still have useful/fun stuff in specific VR worlds, of course.