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Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.

Reddit is proof of Internet Rule No.51 "the better the content, the worse the User Interface"

The old reddit user interface was/is remarkably good. Threaded, collapsible discussions with markdown for comments in a non-distracting (i.e. sparse) layout.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.

What are the alternatives exactly? Until we get interoperating platforms where people can easily migrate and reward the places that treat them the best we are stuck with the few platforms that managed to create network lock-in. The social media as a prison operating model.

I'm waiting for big rooms support to be implemented in keet (which is already amazing)

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Is Facebook not a network effect business? It’s not only wildly profitable but bigger than those two combined. Twitter and Reddit are just run by incompetents who can’t figure out how to advertise anything relevant.

Twitter and Reddit are messageboards. Like Hacker News. Every time they do something controversial, someone thinks Usenet needs to be reincarnated. Trying to monetize that at scale is hardddd. Facebook has got groups, yes. But they have instagram. Messenger. Whatsapp. They have my friends and family. They have my photos going back 10 years. Facebook is personal to many people. I don't see Twitter and Facebook being i…

What did Usenet cost to run?

What does Reddit's core functionality cost? They have annual revenue of half a billion dollars. Tell me that you can't use that money to run a text distribution infrastructure.

I doubt Slashdot in its day cost half a million dollars to run.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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I don't get it. If I log out and go to reddit.com I see it he "Popular" view with a pretty good looking UI, 4.5 "cards" per screen height, I don't think that's what someone could mean by > it's shocking how terrible the site's UI is On the other hand old.reddit.com is just this super dense early 2000s kinda looking UI that I'd never use. Am I just in the minority here on what is considered good UI? Am I looking at th…

On Apollo, I have the UI configured to omit previews of images and videos, it’s also high density. It basically looks like HN.

That’s how my old.reddit.com looks too.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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post #702

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Reimburse the yearly subscription their prorated amount and offer the new subscription amount, or even offer to apply the remainder as credit towards the new subscription. Seems pretty easy and obvious.

Easy and obvious if you're directly selling to users. Not so easy and obvious if the App Store is a middle-man.

I vaguely recall that Apple stepped in to help Twitter 3rd party clients sort out the refund situation when that platform pulled the same stunt.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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This is ridiculous. I couldn't speak for all subreddits. But for some of the subreddits I loved, it just shows how ignorant, arrogant and dictatorial they are. Those moderators didn't contribute to the value of the subreddits. They don't provide any valuable content at all. How can they move subreddits to private without approval from creators? This is fucking ridiculous.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

#779

This is ridiculous. I couldn't speak for all subreddits. But for some of the subreddits I loved, it just shows how ignorant, arrogant and dictatorial they are. Those moderators didn't contribute to the value of the subreddits. They don't provide any valuable content at all. How can they move subreddits to private without approval from creators? This is fucking ridiculous.

That's exactly the question that all of the rest of us have about the reddit admins demanding millions of dollars from the app developers with a month's worth of notice. Why on earth are you criticizing the moderators? Have you never heard of the concept of a strike?
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