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Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by andrewzah »

bigiain wrote: post #183
hnzix wrote: post #101

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> Nothing good comes out of reddit that is not put into reddit from the outside. The good that comes from inside Reddit is the curation, as much as everyone likes to complain about it. They have become more proactive about banning hate and grief subreddits and have a system for reporting and shadowbanning bad faith individuals. If anything one could argue they come down a little too hard on borderline controversial s…

"Curation"? By five totally unaccountable mods, all pushing brands for money? https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gitwbo/p... That curation is "The good that comes from inside Reddit"???

Dramatics aside, the best subreddits tend to be the ones that are strongly curated. /r/AskHistorians, /r/neutralpolitics, etc.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by TA0X6 »

nexuist wrote: post #196
qball wrote: post #193

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Payment processing and hosting aren't treated like phone companies; they're allowed to be discriminatory in who they do business with. Is there a valid reason for that? No. Is the end result of there being no law forcing financial and manufacturers of modern printing presses like those to do business with everyone a threat to the First Amendment? Absolutely, and I'd argue the state has a compelling interest here to f…

You don't have to use a hosting service; you can purchase servers by yourself and run your own datacenter without ever involving a third party. Payment processors are not required; you can accept physical checks or digital currency such as Bitcoin without involving a third party processor. A bank isn't allowed to close your account unless you do something illegal, so aren't you safe there? Modern day conveniences lik…

Not sure what part of "payment processors can discriminate" you don't understand. Even if you purchased your own hardware, your ISP, the payment processor you use to pay your ISP, your registrar, the payment processor you use to pay your registrar, etc. are not neutral entities. That makes "host your own" meaningless.

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Post by joegahona »

baddox wrote: post #178
Benjammer wrote: post #140

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Deep links are only hard because the base concept is semantic organization of your content, so you can deep link to one thing in an organized way. If your app isn't structured to present content like this, if it has many deep workflows or ordered stages of screens/states, then yeah it's gonna be hard to deep link into page 5 of the 11 page workflow you built, that also requires authentication and a bunch of data load…

I don’t think that’s the only difficulty. There’s something else going on in iOS. YouTube links don’t even open in the YouTube app on my iPhone (I have to load the safari page, add them to Watch Later, then switch to the YouTube app). It does, however, work on my iPad.

Do you have to be logged in to add them to Watch Later?

The same thing happens to me with Youtube, but only on iPad, not iPhone. The way I get the app open is, when I get to Safari, I try to open the page in desktop. Youtube app kicks open then.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by Lazare »

jstgord wrote: post #87

Dear Reddit, for the love of Mike .. PLEASE treat reddit as a web-first platform. You are killing the golden goose by trying to force people toward the app - by gradually removing features and usability from the mobile web site and constantly reminding people they "should" use the app. I don't want reddit as an 'app', I want reddit to be readable/scrollable on mobile and web without any form of coercion.

On desktop I either use the old.reddit.com link, or I use the Reddit Enhancement Suite browser addon that forces the same look. If that UI ever goes away, I'll honestly stop using Reddit; the new UI is aggressively horrible.

Similarly, on my phone I use Reddit is Fun which again, gives a good UI where their first party app and mobile web view are both aggressively horrible.

Reddit is a valuable resource and full of some great communities, but it's been in steady, gentle, decline for years as the company focused development on bizarre distractions.

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Post by Klonoar »

nzgrover wrote: post #139
toomim wrote: post #121

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> - They change you back to the new design every few days. This is so annoying that I have to use this chrome extension to force it back to old.reddit.com: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Likewise for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

Likewise, for Safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oldr-for-reddit/id1475048161?m...

Disclaimer that I'm also the author.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by Klonoar »

OGWhales wrote: post #174
rmason wrote: post #145

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Try https://old.reddit.com for a vastly superior experience.

FYI, one can toggle this in settings with an account. So no need for the URL

Unfortunately the settings override doesn't quite work in every circumstance, so most people use extensions to force this instead.

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Post by jdoliner »

dang wrote: post #66
jdoliner wrote: post #56

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HN is an asset to YC because the partners are degenerate HN junkies like the rest of us on here, many are worse. More seriously it helps a lot with YC recruitment and is actually how they run a lot of YC. It also allows for YC company job listings as others have mentioned. I don't think it's been written in Arc for a while.

Arc in the past, Arc in the present, Arc forever.

Nice, I thought I heard someone say at one point that it had been rewritten in rails. I'm much happier knowing this comment is going through Arc.
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