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Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by BitwiseFool »

Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets.

The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up to the title and purpose of the subreddit. At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

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Post by jamil7 »

obilgic wrote: post #14
Trasmatta wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the new Reddit design is such a step back in terms of both performance and user experience. It was probably optimized in some way to increase engagement, but it's just really bad. On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.

Probably unpopular opinion on HN: but I really prefer the new design. finally something that doesn't scream "we have a sub-culture" but rather welcomes new users.

I think the main issues people take with the new design is not so much the aesthetics but more the atrocious performance and weird SPA bugs.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by vffhfhf »

obilgic wrote: post #14
Trasmatta wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the new Reddit design is such a step back in terms of both performance and user experience. It was probably optimized in some way to increase engagement, but it's just really bad. On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.

Probably unpopular opinion on HN: but I really prefer the new design. finally something that doesn't scream "we have a sub-culture" but rather welcomes new users.

donno dude.

I want to absorb all the comments in least ammount of time.

The new design looks like it focus more on content than people commenting. I mean reddit is about all the juicy comments, no?

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Post by Someone1234 »

fernandotakai wrote: post #10
obilgic wrote: post #4

Reddit is following the steps of Facebook: copying other's features. They have a live streaming platform, they added something similar to discord for chats. what's next?

honestly, i don't know anyone that really uses reddit's chat feature. most communities have their own discord server by now.

They just discontinued subreddit chat rooms too, which was a massive embarrassing back-tracking on a highly controversial feature.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/jwme40/deprecating...

Reddit's whole philosophy with chat was just to shove it down everyone's throats, and see if it sticks. The spammers loved it right from the get-go, but nobody else is using it.

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Post by isatty »

abhiminator wrote: post #3

On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).

I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage.

Normally I don’t express such strong sentiment on HN but I’ve been a Reddit user for 10 years and I genuinely like the communities, but not enough to suffer through the new website.

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Post by samtimalsina »

EarthIsHome wrote: post #8
abhiminator wrote: post #3

On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).

I use Slide for Reddit [0]. Some things don't work in the app like Reddit videos, but I get around that by opening those links in a separate browser. Other than that, I've enjoyed how I've set it up [1]; it's got the link's domain name displayed before clicking the link, and if you're signed in, you can save and vote on posts with one click. What have you used and enjoyed? [0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta…

I use BaconReader Premium [0] and it does almost everything I want out of Reddit, including Reddit videos.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onelouder....

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Post by NortySpock »

cgearhart wrote: post #17

It’s been one less since their app started spamming my phone with notifications a few months ago. I suspect those kinds of engagement hooks are part of the reason they have been pushing the app so hard, but I got so tired of it that I uninstalled it from my phone. Fortunately they’ve also made the mobile/web experience so horrible that I’m not even tempted to wade back in. I had been a daily user for more than 10 yea…

If i.reddit.com (which actually has a usable mobile web interface) ever gets pulled down, my mobile usage will go away with it. The modern mobile web experience of reddit.com is garbage.
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