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I use Reddit long term and /r/all was always bad and you should find your subreddits to care for.
And hope it does not get quarantined then disappeared? No thanks.
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> we reserve the right to keep data in our private archive so long as we never allow any data that you requested be removed get exposed through any public API endpoints. This is why I'm really happy to have GDPR. If this were a European company someone would eventually tear them a new one. "Reserve the right" is a cheeky choice of words for keeping data that isn't theirs against people's consent.
> "Reserve the right" is a cheeky choice of words for keeping data that isn't theirs against people's consent. How is it "your data" if you use their property (reddit.com) to post content on their website? IP and other PII I can understand, as reddit gets that no matter what interaction you do with the website, it makes sense to protect that. But as soon as I make this comment on HN, I don't really expect to "own" th…
Just because data about me exists doesn't give unlicensed third parties unlimited rights to it.
Off topic: If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit you can navigate it two ways without getting engaged(also enraged) with the the scum and filth and rage-baits that is r/all or r/popular. 1). Use old.reddit.com, create an account ( it will bait you to enter your email, but its not necessary to proceed. ). Go to subreddits that you want to follow, there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly qui…
Reddit of course has its issues but by working through and around them it's still an amazing site - not because of its features or politics but because of the discussions and communities i.e. users of the site. The default subreddits are generally awful though.
I use the RES extension on my PC and the Reddit Sync app on my phone and would recommend both.
I use RIF for android and it now has a GDPR consent thing that I refuse everytime. It's amazing that reddit survived its redesign, I wish they would rollback. I'm also curious about how many users still use the old design. If they remove the old design, I would obviously not use reddit anymore, and I don't know if there are viable frontends that would allow me to login.
It’s probably one of the best examples of a company ignoring the vocal minority in order to succeed.
I use RIF for android and it now has a GDPR consent thing that I refuse everytime. It's amazing that reddit survived its redesign, I wish they would rollback. I'm also curious about how many users still use the old design. If they remove the old design, I would obviously not use reddit anymore, and I don't know if there are viable frontends that would allow me to login.
Last time I looked at the graphs, it was something like a single-digit percentage of users that are still using old.reddit.com, and shrinking.
This is awesome. While, comments are generally lacking in info (but still entertaining) there are always gems in there. It’s a bit like needle-in-haystack. I think there’s even a subreddit dedicated for this. I’d love to see ML/DL deployed to make it easier to find such comments.
Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.
The largest shift in the site was something 12-14 years ago when they redesigned the site to have thumbnails.
This brought people to the site for images instead of content. That was absolutely the original torpedo.
It made the site much more popular, but the quality tanked fast, and has continued since due to having to cater to the lowest common denominator of millions of people.
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IIRC they have a pretty standard PostGres setup. I'd bet they just setup another PostGres shard replicated just for search, using an extension for the index. Doesn't require the index or working set to be in RAM.
Why do some people write Postgres as PostGres?