An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? • Hacker News Board

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by jandrese » Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 10:08 PM UTC

BlueTemplar wrote: post #356

jandrese wrote: post #167

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I'm not sure I agree about necroposting. I find it tends to increase the noise level more than simply creating a new thread about the topic in some cases, as people see a post with tons of comments and don't realize that many of those comments are out of date and no longer accurate/relevant. There's obviously a line to draw somewhere. You don't want 50 posts on the same topic clogging the top of the feed, but zombie…

And completely unreasonable to me. Even on reddit the cutoff is... 6 months ? People not realizing that it's a necropost is either a failure of the poster not declaring it as such, or of the forum software - see how Discourse auto-highlights necroposting !

How is a poster supposed to go back to the 5 year old thread starting comment and change it to note that the post is out of date?

Good forum software makes it less of a sin, but that's pretty rare on the Internet. This isn't the Usenet where people's clients could be fully featured on every topic.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by Kaiyou » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 10:19 AM UTC

ativzzz wrote: post #197

Kaiyou wrote: post #136

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Well, there is voat, but not many people can endure the culture over there.

Just went to voat, and it keeps redirecting me to the sign in page regardless of where I go, so looks like they've beaten reddit in terms of unfriendly accessibility.

Yeah, it's intentional, since the site periodically gets Ddos'd.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by account42 » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 12:11 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #306

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #254

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Another YT issue I personally find annoying as someone who has recorded a LOT of programming tutorials is all the garbage that pops up on the lower part of the screen whenever the viewer presses pause. A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal . In the past, YT allowed creators to prevent this behavior and recommended videos in general by appending a ?rel=0 to an e…

Yeah that's one of the reasons I download most content I intend to study from YouTube and watch it with a decent media player. Another major reason is ability to go frame-by-frame forward and back which is implemented in the YouTube player but doesn't work reliably.

mpv can stream directly from youtube (and tons of other websites) using youtube-dl. Combine that with a browser plugin to play a link or the curent page in mpv. Infinitely better experience than watching in the browser.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by account42 » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 12:42 PM UTC

thedaemon wrote: post #143

Loughla wrote: post #96

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And this was at the same time, or roughly the same time, that slashdot started making 'improvements'. I dumped both slashdot and digg to go to reddit. And now I'm starting to look for somewhere else to go.

You have succeeded, you are on HackerNews. Isn't this why we are all here? HackerNews is kind of like what Slashdot,Digg and Reddit were originally; that is "news for nerds".

Hacker News isn't really comaparable to the different niche subreddits that I am subscribed to. At the same time I am not interested at all in the business-related articles that are also part of this site. That's why I still use reddit: I can subscribe to the topics I like while filtering out others or only viewing them when I'm bored.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by BlueTemplar » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

jandrese wrote: post #371

BlueTemplar wrote: post #356

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And completely unreasonable to me. Even on reddit the cutoff is... 6 months ? People not realizing that it's a necropost is either a failure of the poster not declaring it as such, or of the forum software - see how Discourse auto-highlights necroposting !

How is a poster supposed to go back to the 5 year old thread starting comment and change it to note that the post is out of date? Good forum software makes it less of a sin, but that's pretty rare on the Internet. This isn't the Usenet where people's clients could be fully featured on every topic.

Usenet would have it worse, because there you can choose your software yourself (and pick one without that feature)?

BTW, I prefer decentralized protocols like Usenet, there are plenty of features that would be unthinkable to leave out of "modern" clients, this could be one of them !

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by Lammy » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

pritambaral wrote: post #40

johnnycab wrote: post #32

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>I'm not going to install a dedicated app in order to read a forum Apollo (iOS) provides a nice and clean design, as does Joey (Android) which copies the style of the former. Even on the desktop, the experience is smooth and manageable, by using uMatrix and RES, whether you are browsing old.reddit or not. I don't understand the hesitancy in using these enhancements to enrich your user experience.

> I don't understand your hesitancy in using these enhancements to enrich your user experience. Not your parent, but I know of no mobile app that allows me certain enhancements that are simply standard on my (mobile) web browser: tabs, ad-blocking, & accessibility. Tabs: because I multi-task, and I compartmentalise my reading. If all I have is an app, then the app either needs to re-invent tabs within it (none I've f…

Reddit barely has traditional ads to block. You don’t see them on any mobile client I’ve ever used. The native ads vastly vastly outnumber them anyway, and the only way to get away from those is to leave the entire site.