Fark redesign is now live (2007)

Post by joenot443 » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:44 AM UTC

astrange wrote: post #265

aerio wrote: post #258

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It wasn't funny, and he didn't make any jokes. He edited "fuck spez" comments to remove spez and substitute other mods. Fuck r/the_donald - but that's just blatant admin power misuse to deflect criticism. Very topical with all the "fuck u/spez" comments going around these days. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

Admin abuse is inherently funny. It's like slapstick. It was funny on SA when the users paid to sign up in the first place, and it can only be more so when they're not even paying customers. Should've made it a wordfilter though. Those are more participatory. (You won't take this advice, which is why I've run a large popular internet forum before and you haven't.)

Post by dontupvoteme » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:50 AM UTC

russdpale wrote: post #188

dontupvoteme wrote: post #153

And before/In parallel to Fark was SomethingAwful, which to my knowledge never did any meaningful redesigns and quasi died out because.. well i'm not even sure why, just a lot of us ended up leaving. Though I guess there's still some skeleton userbase left. Apologies to any goons if i'm misrepresenting things.

something awful had a forum for crappy users, called Fuck Youself and Die, but eventually the trolls and shitty users grew and the site was suffering, the mod war with those users is what 4chan was born from.

Post by a2tech » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:54 AM UTC

marban wrote: post #77

I was the creator of the OG Popurls which at the time was the #1 traffic driver for Reddit and Digg; and also created Twidroid the very first Android Twitter client which became one of the reasons for shutting down 3rd party apps after its acquisition. Since I'm a sucker for anything old-school Web, I've been working on a Digg 1.0 rehash for a while now so if any of you wants to beta test let me know.

Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:57 AM UTC

lightedman wrote: post #394

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #257

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Which is a damn shame, because discord is an unsearchable walled garden. I really, really don't hope much of reddit moves to discord, it would be a disaster for the usability of search engines.

I'm curious as to what you mean by unsearchable. I have yet to not find what I look for when I go to the search bar. The amount of ways to filter things is generally-enough for me to find what I'm looking for in the first page or two of results.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:58 AM UTC

circo wrote: post #370

mrtksn wrote: post #236

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Is finding mods something hard to do?

Yes. Moderating a large sub is a ton of work with no compensation whatsoever. The biggest sub I mod recently grew to ~10k users, it's German speaking, and covers a pretty niche topic. That sub alone is already a surprising amount of work, and 10k is absolutely tiny. Automod alone removes 4-5 posts a day, and there's still quite a lot of bot generated, irrelevant, or spammy posts and comments that manage to bypass the…