An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

The main pages are garbage, but I'm in some truly great niche communities that are going to be hard to replace. And even if I do, they'll be spread over a dozen websites instead of organized in a single place.

I suppose cobbling together a replacement on discord is the future, which I've really tried to avoid.

I would love to see any semblance of evidence that this is true.

Reddit shoves a lot of things down your throat and forces users to do things without providing alternatives.

It's super aggressive in making you use their app (the mobile site is purposely broken), aggressive about making you create an account, and doesn't allow alternatives for sharing images in some instances.

And while we're at it (poor feature, not necessarily a preference), its search is awful.

I highly doubt these are things "Reddit's user base prefer."

The one saving grace reddit has right now are its niche communities where comments are still thoughtful and the content is still interesting. Reddit does everything it can to get in the way of that.

For the sender, especially on mobile, it takes less time to take and share a screenshot, then it takes to get the URL, copy it and paste it into a message.

For the receiver, it takes less time to receive and view a screenshot then it takes to recieve and open a link. Web page rendering times suck, so the people have found a solution to work around that.

I much prefer to receive a screenshot of what someone wants me to see, than a link. I can view picture messages much more quickly than I can view links, and I often wont click a link because I don't want to sit there waiting for a page to finish rendering.

It's either slow because it's full of adverts, or it's slow because it's stalling waiting for an advert/tracker to load that's blocked by the pihole.

I would have let this slide but I really don't like it when people put words in my mouth. Check your previous post, read carefully, you are the first person to use those words :).

> Isn't this basically a variation of https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_QAQumXIAAZ-re?format=jpg

No it is not. You're telling us to use car tires when we are on bikes. Car tires are nice but it's useless for me when I am riding a bike.

> That I'm either already logged in or that I can login in "2 taps" (very dubious, specially for old.reddit.com)

This is a reasonable assumption because, I quote myself:

> Of course I made the assumption that you are already logged in to Reddit, because that's the type of person the usage of this bot is for anyway. If you browse without an account, this is not the bot (or service) you are looking for.

I grant you I did overlook old.reddit.com does not have OAuth. But browsers do save your login credentials, which is even faster.

> That I can search whether there is an existing link with no effort or taps (easier with old.reddit.com, at the cost of swiping, unlikely with the new one), or that I don't otherwise care about telling everyone that I have downloaded the video.

I'll grant searching for an existing link isn't the easiest thing in the world but the upvote system kinda compensates for this.

You can delete comments if you don't mind announcing to everyone you DLed a video. Or use an alt. Or if you do it rarely enough, yeah why not a downloader site.

Again, this bot is for people invested in Reddit's ecosystem.

> * That the bot is going to reply immediately and not make me wait an indefinite amount of time, and that I will not need to manually tap refresh N times to see when it is finished (which is the case in old.reddit.com).

That's why you have notifs. I mean if you need to download this video right now then, maybe this bot isn't for you. But most people don't need right now.

> Does that really change the argument? Would that make it "useful" instead of "shameless self promotion"? > > Of course not.

Except it does. If you add the DL link to each of your comment that also happens to link your product, you become _that guy_ who's always provides a link to the video download without being asked to. It's useful precisely because you anticipated what the user would need your services for. I'm baffled I need to spell that out.

If I stuff every bulletin board with a flyer for my computer repair services, I'm just another voice in that messy pile. But if I repair people's computers and then give them my calling card/flyer, they are likely to not find that annoying because I had a good pretext for advertising my services.