Reddit's corporate masters have basically figured out a user's LTV is way higher on their native app / logged in. Therefore they've degraded public access as much as possible without being called out on it to push people to native.
Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages
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#62It's another form of information control. Or maybe call it propaganda. I mean, it's a public conversation. But when you selectively reveal and censor. That's a narrative sculpter. And of course "sensitive" means whatever reddit wants it to mean.
who's ever been censored on reddit?
what is actively being censored, there?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> newer Firefox android . still waiting for mozilla to release more than 5 extensions on android. they are too busy with other things apparently.
You paying anyone at Mozilla to do that work? If you are - then gripe away
Sorry but they the ones that took away the hundreds of extensions before. With great power comes great responsibility, not great laziness.
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#64On another note, I tried to make a throwaway on `old.reddit.com`. I couldn't find a way to make an account without using an email. I had to manually type in `old.reddit.com/register` to get to a form that would let me not type in an email and even then it wasn't obvious that the email wasn't required.
Just tried and made an account without email. Just click on next.
And there is also a signup button, didn't have to go for any special page
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I highly doubt that. Every single time Reddit comes up here, people complain and complain, but also share old.reddit.com as a work-around instead of actually leaving Reddit. It's a perfect way of keeping the hardcore users addicted while having a modern, instant-gratification interface for the majority. They know what happened to Digg, so far I don't see any indication that they're going to repeat this mistake.
Yeah I guess the issue is that the share of users on old.reddit.com is diminishing to the point of being irrelevant. The number of users still on the old site is less than 5%. It's also sad because even though the old reddit is available, it's not the same. Since all the users are using the new UI, you get a totally different type of user engagement than you used to get I feel. Nowadays it's rare to have any sense of…
> Yeah I guess the issue is that the share of users on old.reddit.com is diminishing to the point of being irrelevant. The number of users still on the old site is less than 5%.
They still run i.reddit.com, which probably only has a tiny fraction even old.reddit.coms users. Also, I'm pretty sure that quite a few power users still use the old site and they probably want to keep them in. Someone has to buy gold and repost all the content, after all ;-)
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#66Can they IPO already so we can short this dying corpse of a company and have new anonymous but social way of sharing news and content?
What I want: a federated, self-hosted/pay-to-play, anonymous, active community.
I've tried mastodon. I never liked twitter and I prefer long form, threaded discussions. Do you want to make the next social media company? Figure out a way to do reddit without needing adds. If you can, FOSS/ federated. Remember when reddit users covered the cost of reddit server time with donations? It can be done.
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#67It's best to just entirely avoid reddit and other low quality social media.
I can’t tell if Reddit was actually better when I started using it ~10 years ago, or if I was just more entertained by the novelty of it. It still does have the important distinction from true “social media” sites that are based around who you add/follow, but they have made some incredibly poor decisions with the platform trying to be less of what made it great and instead trying to blend in with the trendy influence…
It feels like it was better, but I think the redesign and to push towards the mobile apps have changed the content. 10 years ago you came for the comments and discussions. The doom scrolling they're currently focused on seems to detract from that interaction. It hard to even be allowed to view all comments, most seems to be hidden away.
Facebook went in much the same direction. Rather than focusing on interactions between people the focus shifted to just keep people scrolling and reducing interactions to easier "Like", "Hate", "Love", share, anything that could be conveyed using a screen tab, rather than a full keyboard.
My theory: Interaction and the quality of the content on a site goes down, way down, when the primary users switch from desktops to phones.
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#68Replace `reddit.com` with `teddit.net`. Pages load normally and without ads
I use Teddit a lot but found the original "teddit.net" performance to be quite poor, especially during peak US hours. It takes a lot of time to load more niche subs that aren't cached and video playback is stuttery.
I generally prefer teddit.adminforge.de, which uses the same Teddit code but runs on a much less loaded server and thus performs much better.
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#69Can they IPO already so we can short this dying corpse of a company and have new anonymous but social way of sharing news and content? What I want: a federated, self-hosted/pay-to-play, anonymous, active community. I've tried mastodon. I never liked twitter and I prefer long form, threaded discussions. Do you want to make the next social media company? Figure out a way to do reddit without needing adds. If you can, F…
How much are you willing to pay?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could also view the old version of reddit "old.reddit.com", however editing URLs like that is a pain to do on mobile. Very frustrating if I am looking for information on my phone and what I am looking for is on Reddit.
Apollo is a treat on iOS if that’s your mobile ecosystem. It is the best way to consume Reddit imho.
Can I swipe left/right through content on Apollo?
The reddit app used to but they are pushing everything into the new media player (including photos) and it takes you into algorithm content hell. Not even restricted to your subs.. just whatever they want to throw at you. It is enough that I cannot use the reddit app anymore (or hardly use it).