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Scale. Basic stops being basic at their insane scale.
Basic was previously provided by an external service called pushshift, which was free to use and allowed searching individual comments.
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Scale. Basic stops being basic at their insane scale.
I understand your point, but scale also applies to reddits resources and number of developers / options, so I disagree with this reasoning/excuse.
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I feel horrible whenever I sense a need to block somebody. It's occasionally people I know who are too far gone into desperation and self-loathing/contempt to deal with anymore. The other much more rare case is people who 1) open with 2) insultingly irrational/inconsistent 3) vitriolic hostility. In that latter case, I can live with any two, but not all three. For a lot of people the criteria for 2) is pretty variabl…
I've been pulled into the frontline of a culture war, so I've become pretty liberal with who I block, including using chainblocking on people who encourage harassment of others. It occasionally hits the wrong people, but it's the only way to make twitter usable for me. It's not my failing. It's of course all against the twitter rules, but twitter moderation is horrible and these people have also learned to speak in c…
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It's also a lie because "everything" on reddit is still not in fact searchable; buried in the comments on the announcement post, they admit that pre-2020 comments are still not indexed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/u3oz2x/whats_up_wit...
LOL This is ridiculous. The majority of Reddit is Pre-2020 ! Or as I like to call it - The Before Covid times. BC. Surely there's no other acronym that uses those two letters. 2018 BC was a good year for me personally
Haven't used reddit in about 5 years and my life has improved almost as significantly as a few years prior to that when I deleted facebook. HN is the only place I have social interaction on the internet, even while interacting with people I may adamantly disagree with the tone of comments are generally more respectful, informative and less band-wagony than any social media platform out there. Good for them for fixing…
HN has unique demographics. Mostly science and business literature adults. Other platforms have wider demographics.