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holy shit 2000!? Now I understand where all that recommendation spam is coming from
Is this really that much? Reddit is a massively popular global service, after all.
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Ads. You now see more ads. They added value for the shareholders, not for us.
The value for users is that Reddit exists. I hate ads as much as the next person, but you can’t expect a great website that’s unprofitable to be around forever. Eventually it’s going to shut down or change. Reddit has one of the best awards and paid tier plans in the world for a discussion board, yet they still couldn’t break even with it. You might love things that are free, but don’t expect them to last forever the…
Reddit as we knew it is on life support. We see them phasing out third party apps, they already removed np.reddit.com, and undoubtedly old.reddit.com will be next. Once they go public there is no turning back, and their decisions will be solely powered by investor greed.
There is no value in a Reddit that doesn’t cater to the users.
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I don't know how many people have this practice, but Reddit also has become a good "answers" and "research" site to help find people what they want through Google Search. For example: If I search with "Alexa vs Google Home reddit", I am likely to find a lot of useful information from mostly real humans and their feedback openly available on the very site called Reddit. Omitting that "reddit" part in the query will le…
I have the opposite experience. If I'm looking for some technical information (is this MTB suspension part compatible with this fork, or what's the charging profile for this particular battery chemistry, or how do I do x in new programming language y), and I end up on Reddit, I am 99% certain I'll find some vague but useless answer.
I made a website for the protest. Could you folks critique it for me? https://save3rdpartyapps.com
I am a mod on two subs (both > 500K subscribers and they are going dark) and they're not listed.