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Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by numpad0 »

nothercastle wrote: post #281
avadodin wrote: post #206

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Old–school forums never left, still inhabited by the few boomers and genXers who could figure out the Internets back in the day and aren't dead yet. The gamification of Reddit and the ephemeral nature of the main page along with subreddits with varying amounts of overlap contributed to more active interactions, though. Some of the volume was lower quality but not all. The boomer posts about his petunia breeding progr…

Forms are sadly dead. They cost a lot to operate and maintain security updates for so without a critical mass of users they are dead

How did vBulletin/phpBB came to dominate the forum space in the English internet? To me, that seem like the source of a lot of problems for the forum culture and centralization into Reddit.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by inigyou »

keyringlight wrote: post #499
inigyou wrote: post #433

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Why bother with all that? Just quit Reddit and your sanity will improve, unless you replace Reddit with HN.

The challenge lies with whether the things you go to reddit (or any other service/product) for are concentrated or exclusively there, such as discussion or information on a particular topic. There's a lot of communities where they've concentrated their resources on a free site and are at the mercy of the whims of the owner, discord is another. Very often there's no simple switch to an alternative without losing a lot…

What's an example of this?

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by 6031769 »

giardini wrote: post #163
seanhunter wrote: post #111

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“Tat” means miscellaneous junk. That said, the anecdote is made up or important details have been elided to make it sound more interesting than it is. Amazon doesn’t depend on whatsapp for 2fa. You can configure amazon 2fa to send an SMS and it’s possible that the poster’s mother has misconfigured her phone to claim that it needs whatsapp to read the sms 2fa message but I highly doubt even that. When I look on amazon…

How does "tat" differ from "grot"?

Grot is usually intentionally and always utterly unfit for purpose.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by GaryBluto »

I've noticed a large uptick in websites being more comfortable blatantly lying to visitors recently, where beforehand they'd say something like "for the best experience" or not state a reason at all to try and get you to do what they want.

A recent example: if you use a VPN and are signed out, YouTube will occasionally claim you need to sign in to "Protect our community", despite signed out users being unable to affect anything in the first place.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by subscribed »

benj111 wrote: post #452
subscribed wrote: post #142

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I choose to not call a GP a liar or too thick for being unable to differentiate between apps :) I also chose their presumed first hand statement than your unrelated experience with unrelated third parties. Your point re: having to subscribe to WhatsApp notifications, if we're staying in the realm of "what ifs" and looking for the awkward but possible ways to discredit the claims, I can believe that she was enrolled w…

> I choose to not call a GP a liar or too thick GP of the post or actual GP..... It's not about being thick. I had a old person ranting at me once because all these Ukrainian girls were emailing him wanting dates, and didn't they realise he was too old for them.

> GP

The one recalling an event with their mother.

Your experience with a old person is not their experience with their mother.

Can you not project your own experiences on someone's else's?

You claim someone's else's reasoning is wrong based on *your* opinion and past, without anything that would support the relevance in *their* case.

Your experience is valid but irrelevant in that case. Don't project.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by cheschire »

numpad0 wrote: post #501
nothercastle wrote: post #281

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Forms are sadly dead. They cost a lot to operate and maintain security updates for so without a critical mass of users they are dead

How did vBulletin/phpBB came to dominate the forum space in the English internet? To me, that seem like the source of a lot of problems for the forum culture and centralization into Reddit.

I used to run a few forums. Did some work for SMF 1.x back in the day too.

The thing that got vBulletin to succeed over UBB was themes and customizations/hooks.

The thing that made phpBB popular was it didn’t require a license like vBulletin.

Honorable mention is SMF. It replaced YaBB SE, was also free, but had an amazing mod system that didn’t require any manual file editing. And [Unknown] and his team did a great job on the database keeping it way more performant than phpBB was in the free space.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by inigyou »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #498
inigyou wrote: post #459

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Plain HTML is unsafe for Reddit, which is a company, and needs a safe revenue stream.

Note, Reddit is a publically traded company with a P/E higher than NVidia. Nothing makes any sense and I hope Reddit crashes as soon as possible with their terrible decisions.

At this point in history, money is a farce, but it's a farce we are forced to participate in at gunpoint.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by inigyou »

Melatonic wrote: post #394
inigyou wrote: post #65

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They require email and phone verification to sign up now. And if you want to view NSFW you have to verify with Persona.

Do old accounts still work?

They're mostly banned or shadowbanned so it doesn't matter much.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

monksy wrote: post #325
20k wrote: post #293

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They're just trying to manufacture a reason to kill off old reddit. Someone internally clearly hates the fact that its still quite popular, despite all the efforts to make it unusable so far

> Someone internally clearly hates its spez. It's always spez.

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