Mine's fine.
Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#162Tested, and ... no? I tried two different VPNs, currently on NordVPN ... no issue accessing Reddit. And I get that it's cool to bash Reddit on HN, but the sense that "I don't visit sites like that ... I exclusively visit HN" is really weird. For what it's worth I have an 18 Year Club account on Reddit and I'm still active.
This happened for me when I wasn’t logged it, this is a likely factor. Were you logged in when testing this?
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#163Yes, same here. Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior. And quite honestly, it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point.
>it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point. Very true. Over the last few months as more bots and reposters come online you have seen the subreddits bleed back into related subreddits. Most of the posts on /r/popular (landing point for navigating to old.…
Kind of a waste of your own effort going through your post history when everything is crawled already
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#164Since it started "paywalling" content read to be logged I stopped using it. Miss Swartz era. Wishing to find a good replacement.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been part of their free labor since late 2005. Now they want to farm out my content with no compensation to me. They would have nothing of value without the content that users like myself freely provided. I donated my content without which they would never have gained any traction online. >If you could do the same on HN would you? How is your action not petty and trolling? I also edit comments on HN if the edi…
So exactly what do you propose? Should they pay everyone who makes a post or comment on Reddit? Do you feel the same way about HN? You are posting here for free and providing value. > This has never been my problem. It is a problem that they should have had the foresight to solve before they launched. Do you feel the same way about all of the companies that YC funds? If so, why are you commenting here “adding value”?
It is not my part of their business to propose solutions to their self-inflicted problems of monetization.
I don't need to be paid for my content. I post on HN and reddit and several other forums as a way to help others solve problems when they own or use something that I am familiar with.
Like I said above, I understand that some of my content provides value when I post. I also understand that joining and posting to forums and sites is a personal choice that is totally optional. No one asked me to post. No one forced me to post. It is always my decision.
That is how it should be.
I also understand that the part of my content that has value is always content that I could choose to post to a personal blog or other personal website with all the tools to help me monetize traffic. I have made the choice in my own life to avoid that path since the chances of it gaining enough traction to be useful to others is less with a blog or youtube channel and I don't need that level of friction in my life.
EDIT: As for the part about why I comment and potentially "add value" - sites like HN and reddit and the other topic-specific forums that I post on add value to my life by providing information that I need so I post comments in an attempt to add some value on their end when I see the need. Value to you or any other user is always subjective.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#166Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
>it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point. Very true. Over the last few months as more bots and reposters come online you have seen the subreddits bleed back into related subreddits. Most of the posts on /r/popular (landing point for navigating to old.…
Kind of a waste of your own effort going through your post history when everything is crawled already
I totally agree. Seems dumb and probably is dumb. That's okay. Totally my choice.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#168We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…
Reminds me when someone declared that phpBB won.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunatelly it won't work/happen... even after huge protest and backlash reddit is still strong and go-to-place :-(
I hear a lot of people talk like this, and I understand that reddit has huge traffic numbers. However, for me Reddit peaked in interesting content around 2013, and I stopped daily browsing in 2015. Sometimes some subreddits have interesting posts, but interesting content is far from the norm. Now each subreddit feels like it is having the same discussion again and again, and the median post is a meme or some chat-gpt…
But thats not what the reddit owners care about. They are happy people like you leave, you are hard to monetize and block ads. The people who look at the front page today and say this is great? They don't block ads. They don't use old reddit. They don't realize when they are engaging with a shill post. Reddit wants proportionally more of them and less of you, and they are winning.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#170We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…
Anecdotally I am seeing communities I am part of gone from Reddit and other public social media in favor of private or semiprivate ones like Discord, or avoiding digital entirely in favor of physical spaces.
What I see on social media is more just the leftovers. There's little authentic interaction and engagement there.