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Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by lmm »

slg wrote: post #117
lmm wrote: post #104

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> It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them. I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.

That's interesting. What has Twitter done recently to improve the experience of Japanese users?

Trending topics have shifted. Allegedly they removed some manually-curated trending system that was previously in place, which may have been a system that worked well for some demographics but wasn't working great for Japan.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by Eisenstein »

gonzo41 wrote: post #88
jlmorton wrote: post #67

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One of the most interesting things about Reddit is how they’ve managed to grow Reddit, Inc to a few thousand employees, but everyone still refers to the company as “the admins,” as if it’s a rag tag community group, not a Twitter-sized company.

Well every subreddit is run by a small group of despots. So I would expect that's who they are talking about in a sense.

No, the 'admins' are people who work for reddit. 'Mods' are people who volunteer to work for reddit (the 'despots'). By the way, you should try modding a moderately large sub and see what you have to deal with. It is always easy to criticize until you are one having to do the work.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by swader999 »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #114
swader999 wrote: post #107

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I've found discord replaces some Reddit subs on my list now.

How do you consume it? I find it's like trying to read a chat log - very hard to seperate high quality signal from noise.

That's true, I'm a fast reader and I am probably on lower volume boards than you might be thinking of.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

swader999 wrote: post #125
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #114

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How do you consume it? I find it's like trying to read a chat log - very hard to seperate high quality signal from noise.

That's true, I'm a fast reader and I am probably on lower volume boards than you might be thinking of.

When you come back after a day or two away do you start reading where you left off like a chat log?

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by serf »

CoolGuySteve wrote: post #22

I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site. Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.

if you're the only one filling a void, people forgive a lot.

reddit is the place at the moment for a lot of people, that affords them a lot of forgiveness.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by RosanaAnaDana »

kredd wrote: post #98
bnralt wrote: post #92

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It's interesting comparing the relatively calm discussion here to Reddit being down for hours (and still down as I type this) to the hyperbolic comments people were making about the death of Twitter when Twitter briefly had some issues the other day[1] (the site wasn't down but had some issues, and they were resolved in less than an hour). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043433

Reddit isn't really used as "defacto source of breaking news". I mean, local subreddits and other things stiff get prompt information, but it doesn't get as much wide coverage as Twitter.

Well it was for a while. Then they got someone killed during the whole Boston thing. So you know, theres that..

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by billfor »

dobs_bob wrote: post #89
myspy wrote: post #31

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Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter not the reliability.

Not to mention Musk just being a ghoul in general. Mocking the disabled is something I can't let go.

Did he know the person was disabled when he made the comment?

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by slg »

lmm wrote: post #121
slg wrote: post #117

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That's interesting. What has Twitter done recently to improve the experience of Japanese users?

Trending topics have shifted. Allegedly they removed some manually-curated trending system that was previously in place, which may have been a system that worked well for some demographics but wasn't working great for Japan.

That is mildly surprising. I would have assumed a manual process would have done a better job of adapting to different languages and cultures than an automated process unless that manual work was done by people outside that cultural context.
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