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Reddit seems so preposterously stupid. They keep inventing ways to make the site worse. For example, I just went to reddit to see if I could see a green dot b

Reddit seems so preposterously stupid. They keep inventing ways to make the site worse. For example, I just went to reddit to see if I could see a green dot by my username. First thing I got was a popup at the bottom asking me to register my email account (it's a 12 year account, I've refused to do this who knows how many times by now, keep me asking me though - maybe one day). I saw the green dot. I expanded my profile and saw a little toggle by "Online" and clicked it. Nothing happened. I clicked it repeatedly. After a few seconds I got five "Status saved" updates appearing at once. Now I didn't know the state of my setting. I refreshed the page. It loaded the page in the unauthenticated state, dark mode is gone, my reddit page is replaced with the unauthenticated version, etc. I refreshed again, now I'm back in authenticated and see my status indicator is off. I don't even care about the status indicator, it just bothers me that reddit is striving to become more and more this clumsy, over-engineered, mess. It's slow. Things don't work right. It's obnoxious. Why not clean and simple, like hackernews? They say the status indicator is to promote talking with your friends - but is that what people are using reddit for? Why not just try to be a good link aggregator and forum rather than mash in messenger and what not. Reddit would be much better had they focused on nothing but site reliability and performance for the past 10 years.

kylebenzle 6y ago
Reddit was great. It started as a response to sites like Digg where people would vote for an article and talk about it without having Read It. That was a great idea. Then, slowly but surly it was taken over by children. They first and worst thing they did was add images to the home page. That alone was enough to kill the idea of the site and turn into a meme popularity contest, not for discussing articles you read. Now children and teenagers rule the roost. I wish there was a good alternative but enough good people are still stuck on Reddit that its hard for any competitors to get traction.
- canadianfella 6y ago
  Reddit is older than Digg. Are you always this confident?
- tolbish 6y ago
  By children do you mean the general masses, conde nast, or actually children?
  - Dma54rhs 6y ago
    r/teenagers alone is 2.4 mil subscribers. I can see that being their main demographic now, the redesigns and new features (and forcing the app format) are fair signs that their are banking that growing demographic.

kylebenzle 6y ago

Reddit was great. It started as a response to sites like Digg where people would vote for an article and talk about it without having Read It. That was a great idea. Then, slowly but surly it was taken over by children. They first and worst thing they did was add images to the home page. That alone was enough to kill the idea of the site and turn into a meme popularity contest, not for discussing articles you read. Now children and teenagers rule the roost. I wish there was a good alternative but enough good people are still stuck on Reddit that its hard for any competitors to get traction.

canadianfella 6y ago
Reddit is older than Digg. Are you always this confident?
tolbish 6y ago
By children do you mean the general masses, conde nast, or actually children?
- Dma54rhs 6y ago
  r/teenagers alone is 2.4 mil subscribers. I can see that being their main demographic now, the redesigns and new features (and forcing the app format) are fair signs that their are banking that growing demographic.