Whatever they acquire, I just hope they make their search better
Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
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Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
~4% of Redditors use old reddit. As usual, we on HN are incredibly out of touch. Granted, 60% of mod actions are from there, but that makes sense given the lack of feature parity. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo...
the post says 4% of users use old reddit every day. WOuldn't be surprised if they were trying to sneak in an artificially low number.
I wonder if "redditors as a whole" includes visits from external links. I never go to new reddit deliberately, but often end up there via other sources. I also use third party mobile apps more, so there will be plenty of days when I don't use old _or_ new reddit, meaning I'm not counted in that 4%.
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#83Having been a long-time user of Wikia (now Fandom) as well as Reddit, it's been interesting to see Reddit go down the same path Wikia did. In my opinion, both websites started out similarly: somewhat simply designed, focused on content, and with room for communities to form themselves. Over time, both websites started pushing harder for monetization and in the process, made changes to prioritize advertising over cont…
Reddit needs a new way to monetize. I’d even put up with crypto bullshit if they just stopped the ads.
The ads are very easy to block
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
The redesign and the complete stonewalling of it by most of the community is telling.
~4% of Redditors use old reddit. As usual, we on HN are incredibly out of touch. Granted, 60% of mod actions are from there, but that makes sense given the lack of feature parity. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo...
How many pageloads though? How many of the submissions and comments are coming from old reddit? How many of the votes? If you consider the usage/engagement curve is practically guaranteed to be a power curve, you might be surprised or actually not what that 4% translates to.
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
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Yep. "This page looks better in the app" No reddit. It sure as shit doesn't.
Yes, that’s awful. It’s corporate gaslighting — the new page is user-hostile in nearly every way imaginable, but it helps product managers manipulate user attention to meet our quarterly KPIs, so we’ll happily lie to your face to get you to switch.
Do people at Reddit still use old.reddit.com ?
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit has an odd strategy. I have Apollo on my phone, which is a great Reddit app that doesn’t have ads. Sometimes, I go to Reddit in Safari out of habit. The experience is so terrible, that it forces me to go from the website, which has ads, to Apollo, which doesn’t. The performance of the mobile website is absolutely terrible as well. It’s like they’re trying to make a garbage website.
The thing that almost has me quitting reddit is that the mobile browser basically blocks you from viewing anything nsfw, which would be fine, if the definition of nsfw wasn't so broad as to cover like 1/4 of the front page. Also, even when I had the app, the links wouldn't work half the time, they'd take me to the app store instead, and then I don't think you can configure nsfw-friendly mode in the app. And I've been…
It seems like it's getting worse, now apparently it's blocking anything that is unreviewed