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Reddit is taking over Google

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Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by bun_terminator »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #80
bun_terminator wrote: post #59

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I don't understand how they still have mods. Reddits boss hates them. Everyone else, too. They have 100% a negative impact. The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.

> The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism. Tell me you've never moderated anything popular without telling me you've never moderated anything popular. Even 4chan has some moderation these days.

4chan mostly does legal moderation and offtopic. I think the latter is already too much. But still, 4chan is by far the best online community out of the big ones - exactly because there is so little censorship ("moderation")

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by rldjbpin »

i might be one of a dozen reading this when i say that i am actually using less of reddit nowadays.

i more or less stopped actively using the site directly after their third-party app crackdown.

you may see reddit as an alternative to the ai-written or paid-for opinion on the internet, but the opinion itself has not been very balanced in most subreddits i've seen for many years now. the quality of discourse there for polarizing topics is what i fear the most for this site.

although with discord servers now you got an even worse environment because of its more exclusive nature and the relative power the moderators/admins yield. so i can see why it might be the happy medium until reddit entirely switches to the twitter/quora model.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk »

ldjkfkdsjnv wrote: post #220
bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #199

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Can someone explain to me why the reddit leaders want the new interface? Is it because the old one can't track users as well or what? Why don't they just add trackers to the old interface? Or what's the reason?

they need to get you to use the mobile app for better ad targeting

Care to be more specific?

You use Google on any browser, a specific app isnt necessary.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by the_real_cher »

jedberg wrote: post #278
the_real_cher wrote: post #162

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Do you use the new design or stick with old.reddit.com?

I mostly use old.reddit but sometimes use sh.reddit

interesting

I don't know if it's because I grew up with it but I love simple web designs like hacker News and old Reddit.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by mfjordvald »

Havoc wrote: post #231
gloryjulio wrote: post #174

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You can still view the the full sized image by click and open it in a different tab. It's a bit of hassle but at least it works

They broke that too. Links to image just redirect to the Reddit UI for me Saving it still gets full res though..for now anyway

You can bypass that by customising your accept header. There's a Chrome extension that does it for you https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reddit-load-images-...

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by antifa »

xsmasher wrote: post #201
gary_0 wrote: post #50

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> That was done specifically for SEO purposes. As a human I also like it when I can see what topic a URL points to (eg. when it's being shared on HN, or pasted into source code, etc). URLs that just have an opaque ID or terse filename are not very user-friendly.

I agree; I wish JIRA did this. I actually asked for this feature in their support forum yers ago and got a chorus of "that's stupid, why would anyone want that?" in reply.

JIRA is what comes to mind when I think of software that does really stupid things nobody would ever want.

Want to middle click this one specific link to open it in a background tab? Instead of respecting default browser behavior the user is expecting, JIRA happily hijacks the mouse down event to open your background link in the foreground instead, which prevents you from opening multiple links in a convenient timely manor.

A deployment happened on December 29th. It's January 2th. Suddenly, you need to know if the deployment happened 1 week ago or 1 month ago. You remember the deployments page usually says useful information such as X days ago or X weeks ago. Based on the facts, a rational normal person is expecting something like 4 days ago. JIRA says "last year".

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by antifa »

rawbot wrote: post #306
mleo wrote: post #296

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This is similar to when people create branches with just the Jira ID instead of using the ID and title slug as branch name. I’m often working on 3+ items at a time and need a quick way to know which branch is which; how do people that just use the ID as branch name know what the code changes are?

And then there's the other side, where some use very verbose branch names rapidly approaching 80 columns.

I do this and probably never break over 3 words or 32 chars, usually the literal ticket titles are overly verbose and poorly chosen anyways.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by antifa »

saurik wrote: post #248
gary_0 wrote: post #50

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> That was done specifically for SEO purposes. As a human I also like it when I can see what topic a URL points to (eg. when it's being shared on HN, or pasted into source code, etc). URLs that just have an opaque ID or terse filename are not very user-friendly.

The problem is you can't trust it: people can modify that part of the URL arbitrarily and so you think the URL has meaning, but it doesn't.

I'd still rather be saved from a bad click 99% of the time, rather than the 0% of the time an unlabeled ID link will give you.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by yieldcrv »

Havoc wrote: post #305
yieldcrv wrote: post #253

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Throwaway accounts are the greatest I have an account all about some particular vice and honestly its been well received There are VERY FEW ad hominem attacks. Its like people treat you better when they know they cant hurt you in comparison to people that try to have a post history tip toeing around topics and subs. I think it’s symptomatic of what you see with other extreme personalities, they wind up getting so man…

That makes sense. Though at that stage - needing throw always to participate - I do wonder whether it’s worth interacting at all.

Its definitely worth interacting, the throwaway is more authentic and I do post in local subreddits, I’ve garnered sycophants and unsolicited interest from attractive women that are in to “bad boys” whom I’ve subsequently met in person

Its been far better than whatever else I was doing, I kind of feel bad for everyone else

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