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Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by plonk »

pluc wrote: post #74
plonk wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny, I've never seen it work correctly, even in the simplest case, on any of my devices. Usually, clicking on the video does nothing. If I wait for enough seconds, it might start, maybe without sound. Or it might start the sound without the image. If I try to skip to some moment that hasn't been loaded yet, it usually just blocks and stops doing anything. Maybe you have the exact browser/device/screen size/OS…

What's insulting is that you don't need to go far to get your type of feedback. Yet development efforts are spent on developing gamification mechanism that are utterly pointless, April Fool's or, wait, live streaming? They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen. They just started giving tools to the moderation community that has been keeping th…

> They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen.

Maybe the new design is so obviously slower and broken that they see killing old.reddit.com as too risky (cf. the video player, the loss of position in a page when using back/forward, the un-followable comment threads that make you click on "more comments" 10 times a minute, and all the boxes begging for your email address and for you to please use the app).

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by xkbarkar »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #42

I don't get it. I think I'm batting .005 with getting a good result from Reddit's "hive mind." And Reddit spams my search results so much that it frequently takes up several of the top slots. The net-net is that I often include "-site:reddit.com" in my searches.

I sometimes get poor quality reddit score higher than good quality stackoverflow results. I need another internet. The current one is broken.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by itslennysfault »

virtual_void wrote: post #12

I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn. I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic. https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Yeeeeaaah, reddit search is garbage, but.......

!g site:reddit.com something I want to find

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by rnd0 »

ck2 wrote: post #38
throw10920 wrote: post #22

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It's already happening - marketers are creating sockpuppet accounts on Reddit to promote their products. This approach isn't sustainable.

Oh it's not something new, many larger subreddits require year+ old accounts, so farms have people create accounts for years now, get a little karma, let it sit for awhile then resell it. Next presidential campaign is going to be brutal to reddit spam/noise filters, I hope they are ready somehow.

>I hope they are ready somehow.

It seems unlikely. It's more likely they'll find a way to use the noise as a revenue source of some sort.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by renewiltord »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #76
owlninja wrote: post #25

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Do you have any examples of what this looks like?

This person drives in a small car in other drivers' blind spots, waits for them to try to merge in front of them, then uses a novelty car horn. Then they upload the video, which Reddit loves because it is watching someone else possibly make an error thereby making the viewer feel better about themselves, and then they get an opportunity to share a link for the horn in the comments when people (or maybe the original p…

That sort of incident happens every day in the Bay Area, but people just yield or pre-emptively make room when they see the other guy is going to do this. This guy has decided not to and so he's got a lot of videos. That's literally it. If you decided to hardball every driver interaction you'd have enough of this content too.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by adamomada »

plonk wrote: post #73
CameronNemo wrote: post #68

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I've heard a lot of hate about their video player, but it always works for me. What exactly is the issue with it?

It's funny, I've never seen it work correctly, even in the simplest case, on any of my devices. Usually, clicking on the video does nothing. If I wait for enough seconds, it might start, maybe without sound. Or it might start the sound without the image. If I try to skip to some moment that hasn't been loaded yet, it usually just blocks and stops doing anything. Maybe you have the exact browser/device/screen size/OS…

> Note I don't use the mobile Reddit app, only the website.

I’m almost certain this is by design. Make the web shitty enough and you’ll get more app users!

“Reddit is better on the app, and we pulled every last trick in the dirty playbook to make it that way” is what the web banner really means

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by adamomada »

boringg wrote: post #45

I think companies/people who are deep in google SEO have also infiltrated reddit. Still better than Google in some regards but only a matter of time before it is degraded beyond useful value.

I’ve been on the site since 2012 and it’s all I can see. There is a subreddit from around the same time I joined called HailCorporate documenting a lot of the obvious instances but I’ve noticed lately that most people have been trained to mimic the ads just by being on the site for a short time

Lately the most obvious example of what I mean is on the TV subreddit: shows aren’t just shows any more — they are almost always referred to as X on Y where Y is the network or streaming service the show is currently on. Sometimes it results in hilarity as in the case of a show called “You” with the show’s sub called YouOnLifetime - a network it is no longer available on.

A less cynical person would say that people are just trying to help people find the show they’re speaking of, but it ends up being a constant string of Corporate keywords in upvoted posts and wow, just happens to be great for SEO.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by adamomada »

Tutanota1 wrote: post #56

Thought I was the only one who googles with Reddit as a keyword. Reddit has become a defacto source for reliable information.

As a long-time (10y) user on the site, this is pretty scary to see. Reddit had been an ad incubator that trains people to do their job for a while now, the first signs of it I saw when I signed up in 2012 - probably to call it out back then even (HailCorporate was one of the first subs I joined)

My advice is to be extremely careful considering anything on the site reliable information and not just the output of an extremely effective PR machine

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