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Way better than what reddit founders got to sell out to Conde naste. Which is hilarious considering when it came out we were all stoked about reddit and imgur b

by ngold 8y ago

Way better than what reddit founders got to sell out to Conde naste. Which is hilarious considering when it came out we were all stoked about reddit and imgur being open source and ad free.

wyldfire 8y ago
Reddit's ads are really unintrusive even today. I don't think we should expect them to operate without something like ads for monetization.
- gothroach 8y ago
  I'm guessing you haven't had the new site rolled out to you yet? Maybe it's just me but on the mobile version of the new site, of the top four posts one to three(!) are ads on every page. Oh, and only two posts are visible by default. I much preferred the unobtrusiveness of their ads previously.
  - bnjms 8y ago
    I find myself wishing the new ads were more intrusive! What we have taught them is that we are "okay" with ads as long as they're unintrusive. But what Reddit has understood is that if they can blend in the ads seamlessly that the ads are acceptable. But the ads are actually worse. -- And thank goodness for that. I waste far too much time there and nothing breaks me from the spell like loading the new theme.
  - y4mi 8y ago
    i can no longer login with the new page, because they've introduced a client-side password check that fails for my legacy account. right now, i'm still able to authenticate at old.reddit.com... but once they've deprecated that as well, i'll no longer be able to authenticate unless i change my password in this grace period. not doing that though
    - TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
      I don't understand why wouldn't you change your password? Is there some technical or security related reason?
      - y4mi 8y ago
        no, i'm just not interested enough to keep my reddit account active. I'll use that as an excuse to stop going there altogether
    - zamber 8y ago
      I stopped using it when they effectively prevented browsing from phones. I'm to lazy to switch to desktop view. I don't want to install their crap app on my primary device.
Fnoord 8y ago
Momentum of early adopters akin to TAZ principles. PG wrote here what he learned about HN [1] but IIRC there's an essay where he's even more specific. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
pavs 8y ago
imgur was never open source unless I am missing something. A very early version of Reddit was open source, in the sense, the source code was periodically released minus some secret sauce, they kept to themselves. Last time I checked they stopped releasing source, it was such a long time ago that the current version doesn't even remote resemble their open source version, which is, AFAIK, as good as dead.
- zamber 8y ago
  Geez, I hope it doesn't happen to Telegram! /s

by ngold 8y ago

Way better than what reddit founders got to sell out to Conde naste. Which is hilarious considering when it came out we were all stoked about reddit and imgur being open source and ad free.

wyldfire 8y ago

Reddit's ads are really unintrusive even today. I don't think we should expect them to operate without something like ads for monetization.

gothroach 8y ago
I'm guessing you haven't had the new site rolled out to you yet? Maybe it's just me but on the mobile version of the new site, of the top four posts one to three(!) are ads on every page. Oh, and only two posts are visible by default. I much preferred the unobtrusiveness of their ads previously.
- bnjms 8y ago
  I find myself wishing the new ads were more intrusive! What we have taught them is that we are "okay" with ads as long as they're unintrusive. But what Reddit has understood is that if they can blend in the ads seamlessly that the ads are acceptable. But the ads are actually worse. -- And thank goodness for that. I waste far too much time there and nothing breaks me from the spell like loading the new theme.
- y4mi 8y ago
  i can no longer login with the new page, because they've introduced a client-side password check that fails for my legacy account. right now, i'm still able to authenticate at old.reddit.com... but once they've deprecated that as well, i'll no longer be able to authenticate unless i change my password in this grace period. not doing that though
  - TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
    I don't understand why wouldn't you change your password? Is there some technical or security related reason?
    - y4mi 8y ago
      no, i'm just not interested enough to keep my reddit account active. I'll use that as an excuse to stop going there altogether
  - zamber 8y ago
    I stopped using it when they effectively prevented browsing from phones. I'm to lazy to switch to desktop view. I don't want to install their crap app on my primary device.

Fnoord 8y ago

Momentum of early adopters akin to TAZ principles. PG wrote here what he learned about HN [1] but IIRC there's an essay where he's even more specific. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

pavs 8y ago

imgur was never open source unless I am missing something. A very early version of Reddit was open source, in the sense, the source code was periodically released minus some secret sauce, they kept to themselves. Last time I checked they stopped releasing source, it was such a long time ago that the current version doesn't even remote resemble their open source version, which is, AFAIK, as good as dead.

zamber 8y ago
Geez, I hope it doesn't happen to Telegram! /s