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>>>It’s because the most active parts of Reddit’s user base prefer it this way. I would love to see any semblance of evidence that this is true. Reddit shoves
by gxs 5y ago
>>>It’s because the most active parts of Reddit’s user base prefer it this way.
I would love to see any semblance of evidence that this is true.
Reddit shoves a lot of things down your throat and forces users to do things without providing alternatives.
It's super aggressive in making you use their app (the mobile site is purposely broken), aggressive about making you create an account, and doesn't allow alternatives for sharing images in some instances.
And while we're at it (poor feature, not necessarily a preference), its search is awful.
I highly doubt these are things "Reddit's user base prefer."
The one saving grace reddit has right now are its niche communities where comments are still thoughtful and the content is still interesting. Reddit does everything it can to get in the way of that.
- Arrath 5y agoReddit search is useless. And let's not even start on their inline video player. It frustrates me that they look to shut down and stop bots and services like this, because their video play is such complete crap.
- vultour 5y agoThere's another reply to GP that illustrates this. "I prefer first-party content so I can effortlessly scroll"; It's a real shame, people like that turned Reddit into a politically manipulated 9gag where they waste hours scrolling through mind-numbing content. Self-posts? No. Links? No. Just funny images, or videos with obnoxious music stolen from TikTok, with a side of ads please. I dread the moment when they remove old.reddit.com, but I guess it'll finally make me leave because there's absolutely 0 chance I will be using the new interface. Also, this whole SaveVideo issue is laughable, most of the content on Reddit is already stolen from other sources.