Reddit Doubles Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by makeitdouble » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:12 AM UTC

graeme wrote: post #25

candiddevmike wrote: post #4

I wonder how long until Google delists them in search results.

Google should buy Reddit instead. Not that different from owning Youtube. And they'd ensure their search results remain full of good, text based content. Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google. Meanwhile Google's text and video ad network could probably moneti…

Youtube hasn't been great at dealing with controversial topics or sexual content. We'd basically see a Yahoo/Tumblr situation all over again.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by ian0 » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:12 AM UTC

notRobot wrote: post #48

danielvaughn wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As if on cue, I couldn't read past the first paragraph because of two different popups trying to get me to subscribe.

Get uBlock Origin and turn on the annoyance filter to make your life infinitely better.

Thanks for this! Long time ublock user but never new about these filters

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by ChildOfChaos » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:12 AM UTC

I am a bit confused about this, do a lot of people access Reddit through a service that uses the API?

To me Reddit is a website, people keep referring to it as an app, but I have never used an app for it. It works best in the browser.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by Aeolun » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:12 AM UTC

hsjqllzlfkf wrote: post #50

over_bridge wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This point has been discussed to death already. Reddit is extremely reliant on a small percentage of users who moderate and post content. Those are the ones being impacted and complaining the loudest. The majority of users just passively absorb the work of the few.

> Reddit is extremely reliant on a small percentage of users who moderate and post content. Those are the ones being impacted and complaining the loudest. Sooooo why would I care that a small number of Reddit users are complaining?

Because Reddit as you use it every day wouldn’t exist without them.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by thr_low_latency » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #49

It will be interesting to see the eventual outcome of this saga. I have already seen backlash against the backlash in many subs. /r/NBA, which was mentioned in the article, had a poll one day before the blackout and made the decision based on 8000 votes (out of a total 8+ million members). Casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season, and the mo…

Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by emikulic » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

candiddevmike wrote: post #7

fallat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would they?

A lot of the Google search results for reddit lead to a error page or subreddit is now private, not the content Google originally indexed.

Wow, Reddit is going to lose a lot of pagerank.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by technion » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

teruakohatu wrote: post #8

fallat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would they?

Because when you visit a search result you get a page saying the page is private instead of content.

Which has always been the case for anything tagged NSFW, or anything at all in a mobile browser. Every piece of SEO advice says this will get downranked from Google, but Reddit demonstrates this isn't true.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by unstatusthequo » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

pcurve wrote: post #35

Of course, the two day blackout will not have huge revenue impact, but two week one will. And if it goes on beyond that, those who will have the most to lose will blink (i.e. Spez and investors) If Spez doesn't blink, the investors will make him. I don't think he's' going to win this one without making concession.

I do hope the mods have the balls to continue the blackout as long as it takes. This couple days is a joke. A longer strike will be noticed, especially by would be IPO investors. As it is, if this IPOs, I’ll be selling short via put options on this. Management is incompetent. Will not succeed with this anti visionary leadership.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by preommr » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

givemeethekeys wrote: post #19

tananaev wrote: post #3

Usual bait and switch from Reddit. Pretty much all investor funded companies follow this path sooner or later. Lock the platform, squeeze the profit. Sad, but not much can be done about it.

Anyone else remember the giant exodus from Digg.com to Reddit? No one I know talks about Digg.com any more. But hey, maybe it is profitable.

Reddit makes like half a billion, it's plenty profitable for what it is. The problem is that management is trying to make it into something that it's not in an effort to make even more money when the site just isn't geared for it.

It's like if McDonalds instead of just opening more stores decided that it can make even more money if it turned into a bar and grill because steaks have higher margins.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by ent101 » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

ent101 wrote: post #68

I highly suspect anything critical of Reddit is being flagged to death on HN. This post was #1 with more than 100 upvotes in 39 minutes. Now it keeps going lower and lower.

Now it's #6. How's this even possible?!