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Just like with VR, you can keep on claiming forums are "dead" all you like. Me and all my friends will keep on using them daily. therearedozensofus.gif
"Good thing you're the majority of people, then." - samplatt [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002685
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You can do it without logging in too if you use an extension that autoredirects. That's what I do. I use a FF extension called Old Reddit Redirect.
Doesn't work for me. Seems like this login gate for old.reddit is being progressively rolled out.
The day I can no longer use Old Reddit is the day I stop using Reddit.
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Enshittification is the answer. Old Reddit doesn’t make any money. Users block what few ads there are and it’s free so there’s no subscription revenue otherwise. New Reddit is full of ads plus social media engagement-bait garbage. New Reddit makes money. Reddit the company wants people to use New Reddit. So why does Old Reddit still exist? Because that’s where the content creators live! Old Reddit is a cost centre bu…
Why couldn't old reddit make money? Just going by my napkin math, serving 125M DAU compute and storage shouldn't cost more much than $2M/mo in cloud hosting. If I serve a single adsense banner at the top of each page at a low ($2) RPM, I should pull between $15-30M/mo off those 125M daily users depending on engagement. Realistically this type of lazy ad integration could be much higher. Given the maturity of the plat…
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You can hide distracting items in safari to remove the popup.
True. But for me, I hide the “fuck you asshole, use our app!” bottom overlay, and it does go away, but then scroll stops working!
But holy moly yes how user hostile.
Another fun New Reddit quirk: on iOS, the un-dismissable “better in the app” popover makes scroll stop working, meaning you can’t scroll up to get the iOS-native “Open in App” toolbar that actually opens the app, so your only option is to click their hand-rolled button that just opens the App Store listing, or reload the page and tap the native “Open in App” button before the popover reappears.
As an opinionated 'power user' type, I've become used to experiencing friction on web 2.0. So for example I sometimes have to make accommodations because my adblocker or user scripts aren't working with a change on a site. I also find myself doing a lot of captchas, because I use a VPN. That's not unexpected: I'm treading an unhappy path, I shouldn't expect my usage to be considered when these changes are made. But w…
Often, this friction is on purpose. A good example is how websites show the cookie banner:
The least friction will be to disable tracking cookies, and showing an unobtrusive banner asking the user to opt-in. Very few sites do this.
Showing a screen-blocking pop-up where users get to "accept all" or "deny all" adds friction.
The worst is when a site shows that pop-up but removes "deny all", instead forcing the user to reject all cookies one by one.
I think it's the most commonly used dark pattern out there.
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How does "tat" differ from "grot"?
Tat is general rubbish, but generally implies something a bit old fashioned as well. Those decorative plates and figures that old people love? Tat Grot I've never heard of in terms of buying stuff. Grot to me just implies something dirty
My first encounter with "grot" was a BBC comedy, apparently " The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin", wherein a gentleman suffering a mid-life crisis tries to fail at business. However no matter what he does, everything he touches turns to money! At the end he sets up a series of shops named "GROT" which, of course, sell grot and also become enormously successful.
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Why couldn't old reddit make money? Just going by my napkin math, serving 125M DAU compute and storage shouldn't cost more much than $2M/mo in cloud hosting. If I serve a single adsense banner at the top of each page at a low ($2) RPM, I should pull between $15-30M/mo off those 125M daily users depending on engagement. Realistically this type of lazy ad integration could be much higher. Given the maturity of the plat…
Infinite scrolling + algorithmic ads. That's how Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok all make their money. You get way more ad impressions per hour than from people who click on links and read / participate in discussions (which is what Old Reddit is all about). Young social media addicts can scroll hundreds of ads per hour because they scroll so fast.
"Addictive business model" is one thing. It's annoying, we should highly discourage it, but - some are worse than others
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No, my Microsoft Azure 2FA sends codes to WhatsApp, not SMS. UK, where WhatsApp is absolutely mandatory.
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-- develop the ability to formulate and type accordingly
-- be informed that we have information that the uk administration forbade YT to the minors (while the minors are _mandated_ cultivation, and YT is unavoidable - it is importantly there). This within a non noted resistance of the people and a non noted qualification of the satanic perpetrators. It is one of the most critical events of the century. Hence, the british is an ex-civilization.
I always wondered how Reddit justified the old.reddit effect. If your new design is so awful that a large percentage of users refuse to use it, and prefer the (more performant!) version from more than a decade ago, shouldn't that be a strong signal that you've made some mistakes? Why not try making the new version more appealing by investigating and fixing the issues that cause people to use the old one. I guess cred…
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They're lying. Culturally practically everyone uses whatsapp, but that doesn't stop people just sending SMS