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The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by noasaservice »

tux2bsd wrote: post #25
ivraatiems wrote: post #12

I have a different take: The main problem with reddit is in how badly it's bungled its several different redesigns over the last few years, and how it's slowly ruined its users' experience in misguided attempts to drive mobile traffic to its app. Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Navigate to subreddit. Find out which of two (non-NSFW)…

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So you're against treating people with respect and dignity?

That's what your little "woke" slur means.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by endtime »

ivraatiems wrote: post #12

I have a different take: The main problem with reddit is in how badly it's bungled its several different redesigns over the last few years, and how it's slowly ruined its users' experience in misguided attempts to drive mobile traffic to its app. Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Navigate to subreddit. Find out which of two (non-NSFW)…

I use the app Joey on Android, works great. I still use old.reddit.com on desktop, and probably always will.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by ohCh6zos »

thomassmith65 wrote: post #21

In a decade this essay will still be available on some web archive, but the author will be fully grown, and the zeitgeist that shaped his adolescence, which is already dying, will be as transparently foolish as is, to contemporary sensibilities, a 1970's punk rocker shouting 'The Beatles suck!' It is true Reddit is a pile of garbage, but it was a worse pile of garbage when its community was posting kiddie porn and cr…

While those were both issues. There was a lot more quality text discussion on the site during that era.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by dvh »

Reddit works fine for me. In R/W mode I use only /r/diypedals and /r/guitarpedals and for daily dose of doom and gloom in R/O mode I use /r/news and /r/worldnews. I access it only via RSS reader and it navigates me directly to compact version which loads instantly and works well on mobile.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by exreddit »

bojan wrote: post #10
LewisVerstappen wrote: post #3

It's honestly astonishing to see how poorly the leadership team at Reddit has been executing. People shit on Twitter (Zuck called Twitter "a clown car that fell into a gold mine") but Reddit is so much worse. The fact that Reddit didn't have a decent mobile app until a few years ago is unbelievable. Indie-developers were shipping a better reddit mobile apps than the company.

Why would they need their own app when they have good APIs and enough people to create perfectly good third-party apps for them? The only reason I can see is monetization, with your own app you can control the user engagement better. I specifically don't use their app because I explicitly don't want all the fluff features they've added over the years. That's also why I still use old.reddit.com.

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Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by kfrzcode »

noasaservice wrote: post #31
tux2bsd wrote: post #25

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So you're against treating people with respect and dignity? That's what your little "woke" slur means.

No, xer right it's a cesspit of self-proclaimed wokensheep
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