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Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit

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Re: Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit

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Post by A_D_E_P_T »

I don't use Reddit much. (I think it's structurally broken, easily the most astroturfed website on the internet, and weirdly uncivil in a passive-aggressive way.) The only good thing I'm inclined to say about it is that old.reddit.com is pretty well-designed for readability. Once they get rid of that, it's truly over, as the same definitely can't be said about "new Reddit." What I don't understand is why they'd go to such lengths to force that design when a huge fraction (perhaps an absolute majority) of users dislike it.

Re: Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit

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Post by Chu4eeno »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #3

I don't use Reddit much. (I think it's structurally broken, easily the most astroturfed website on the internet, and weirdly uncivil in a passive-aggressive way.) The only good thing I'm inclined to say about it is that old.reddit.com is pretty well-designed for readability. Once they get rid of that, it's truly over, as the same definitely can't be said about "new Reddit." What I don't understand is why they'd go to…

I'm pretty sure the majority of content on reddit now is from bots as well (I used to moderate a medium sized subreddit pre-LLM, and the amount of automated posting was concerning even then).

There's a ton of bots here as well (especially if you show dead in /newest), but at least people are able to spot it and call it out here, (human) redditors seem completely oblivious.

Re: Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit

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Post by A_D_E_P_T »

Chu4eeno wrote: post #4
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #3

I don't use Reddit much. (I think it's structurally broken, easily the most astroturfed website on the internet, and weirdly uncivil in a passive-aggressive way.) The only good thing I'm inclined to say about it is that old.reddit.com is pretty well-designed for readability. Once they get rid of that, it's truly over, as the same definitely can't be said about "new Reddit." What I don't understand is why they'd go to…

I'm pretty sure the majority of content on reddit now is from bots as well (I used to moderate a medium sized subreddit pre-LLM, and the amount of automated posting was concerning even then). There's a ton of bots here as well (especially if you show dead in /newest), but at least people are able to spot it and call it out here, (human) redditors seem completely oblivious.

Yeah, and even more concerning is that there's a thriving market in "high karma" reddit accounts. These are bought and sold for marketing/astroturfing, often run by bots. So a human today can be a bot tomorrow. And the way Reddit works, which is not really the case here, is that high-karma accounts are privileged in terms of post placement and de facto status.

Re: Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit

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Post by chistev »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #3

I don't use Reddit much. (I think it's structurally broken, easily the most astroturfed website on the internet, and weirdly uncivil in a passive-aggressive way.) The only good thing I'm inclined to say about it is that old.reddit.com is pretty well-designed for readability. Once they get rid of that, it's truly over, as the same definitely can't be said about "new Reddit." What I don't understand is why they'd go to…

Any data on percentage of users that use old reddit?
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