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reddit may have been a good site a decade or so ago, but in its current state it's mostly a propaganda machine to manipulate clueless rubes. One look at the front page makes this glaringly obvious. The only remotely productive way to use reddit is by being selective with what subs you check out. Avoid the larger subreddits at all cost.
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jedberg is the former chief architect and operations manager of reddit, fyi.
I'm guilty of not clicking through to the profile page of everyone I reply to
If you want to be guilty of something, I'd say it was approaching the conversation adversarially rather than charitably. "You were asked for a source" treats the other commenter as an inattentive schoolboy, and coming from a place of curiosity with a question like "But how do you know that's actually what happens?" might have done the job just as well.
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Its actually incredible how bad it is on mobile. Its like, unusable... I'm amazed that the video player still only seems to work half the time.
Which platform?
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Niche subreddits are informative and useful. You just have to unsubscribe from all the default reddits and find the niche stuff that interests you. Then your reddit front page becomes one of the most useful media pages on the internet.
r/covid19 is a great source of information, but the mods police it very heavily to keep it that way.
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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.
The new design literally doesn't work! Trying to follow a link is now all but impossible - clicking a link takes me to the comments page. Not what I want. But on that page, the link that I expect to see at the top of the page doesn't load! So I shrug and go back to the index page, and now the link or image or whatever is attached to the post is gone from _that_ page too. Reloading the page doesn't fix it. So for that…
As someone who still visits on desktop, "new" reddit is painfully slow. I'm on a gigabit connection. My internet is fast. "New" reddit pages take up to 5 seconds to load content, and just flipping over to old.reddit.com will improve load times. It's not instant like a lot of other websites, but it's still a fraction of "new" reddit's 5 seconds.
What are they using to measure performance? Do they not understand how much faster the old UI is?
Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.
Niche subreddits are informative and useful. You just have to unsubscribe from all the default reddits and find the niche stuff that interests you. Then your reddit front page becomes one of the most useful media pages on the internet.
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Can you point out some subreddits they've shut down that are "money and engagement walking out the door"? The only subreddits I've heard of being shut down are as objectively racist and derogatory as you can get (or NSFL gore). Advertisers and mainstream users generally don't want to be associated with sites promoting those types of content.
You can't tell me if you placed advertising on Pornhub, your brand is not going to get recognized by men all over. I realize it's not what a lot of prudish corporations care for, but is it really going to affect Pepsi or mcdonalds if they just have an ad for one of their products next to that? Not a single person would think of less of them and only the media would criticize them.
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Anything conservative. The Donald was a hotbed of whackjobs, but it was also the biggest Trump forum online. They should be allowed to talk freely so the rest of us can laugh, rather than persuing the censorship route so advertisers don't leave.
T_D was destroyed by their own mods. They knew exactly what the site policies were were and intentionally ignored them. I mean, those people won't follow a policy of wearing masks to save their own grandparents. Any site policy infringes on "mUh FReEdOmS". They chose to be banned so that they could cry censorship.
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T_D was destroyed by their own mods. They knew exactly what the site policies were were and intentionally ignored them. I mean, those people won't follow a policy of wearing masks to save their own grandparents. Any site policy infringes on "mUh FReEdOmS". They chose to be banned so that they could cry censorship.
No, The Donald moved off of reddit and there were 0 posts for months. Reddit banned them anyway, clearly politically motivated.
It doesn't matter where "they" moved. What matters is what was published in that subreddit. They could just as easily have deleted the abhorrent racist posts and comments before they left. They didn't do that, so the subreddit continued to violate site policies.
Try this: create a subreddit, post child porn, and then never post again. What you'll find is that as soon as your post is reported/noticed, it will be deleted along with your account and your subreddit. It won't matter that you've moved on and now post your child porn elsewhere.
Racism and death threats have no place on Reddit as per the site policies that the mods agreed to so when the mods refused to comply, their sub was deleted. Nothing to do with politics.