I came here from reddit because it got "too big" and full of simple people. Most communities became picture based, shallow, repetitive and uninspiring. Often t

I came here from reddit because it got "too big" and full of simple people. Most communities became picture based, shallow, repetitive and uninspiring. Often the text based articles end where they should start (this is a general problem that also touches the press), so you learn nothing. Then you see the same 10-20 repetitive factoid comments. (BTW. what a pity there is no more the "reddit frame") With the inflow of simps reddit is becoming incredibly anti intelectual: ask for sources? Get downvoted. Write long paragraph of gibberish? Get upvoted. Many people lament that /r/funny is not funny (I think it never was), /r/news is full of paid shills... but problem is that the site now caters to the lowest common denominator. Pictures everywhere. Compare /r/unitedkingdom (which banned pictures) with /r/Ireland (which didnt). And yes, I am aware that each community had own mods who generally are quite random people. But the New redesign is there to puść more pictures. Askreddit mods did not want to receive reports so they straight out banned opening comment boxes in their subreddit. This leads to uninspiritng questions and constant repetition. There are still some communities like /r/truereddit or /r/longreads (plus some niche heavily moderated subreďdits) but most mainstream is incredibly dull. Sometimes I look on digg - and even this corpse of a website seems to have more interesting stuff than reddit. Also new reddit just sucks. Once they disable i.reddit / old.reddit the site will become even worse: they don't want intelligent users who can have some sort of a discussion. They want as many users as possible. Because websites should grow like tumors... Tbh, I mostly wonder now where to go when hacker news dies. The process seems to start too.