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My personal last strands of hope for Reddit are - their API which is still available to public without hoops to jump through. The downvote button. And the usabi
by anyfactor 5y ago
My personal last strands of hope for Reddit are - their API which is still available to public without hoops to jump through. The downvote button. And the usabillity of old.reddit. Some communities that are still well moderated and strikes a good balance between open to questions and not open to stupid questions.
Beyond that I stopped using mainstream reddit as a value source.
- molticrystal 5y agoThe new largest share holders will likely coerce the removal of all three along with any other vestigial remnant that is enjoyable and is still maintained in the name of eventually maximizing their profits. For me the biggest loss will probably be when the board of directors demand that the RSS feeds stop working.
- tooltower 5y agoDo we know who the larger shareholders are? Where do we look this up?
- hericium 5y agoTencent was/is big on funding Reddit. Around the time they soaked $150m, privacy policy has changed, some functionalities were added that do not work on old.reddit w/o JS, www.reddit started resembling other social media sites and the site became more profit-oriented and - for me - user-hostile.
- sauntheninja 5y agoJust don't remove old reddit and I will be fine
- djrockstar1 5y agoYeah while all the big subreddits are nigh unusable, there's a lot of small/mid-sized communities that are an absolute delight to be a part of.
- Freskis 5y agoThis is a moral conundrum. Yes, some of the smaller sub-reddits are good, but by participating, you legitimize the conflict/fakenews/horrorshow that is the main website. It's like saying you enjoy the trains running on time in Nazi Germany whilst ignoring the rest of what the regime is.
- starik36 5y agoIt was Italy that got trains running on time. Get your fascist regimes straight.
- a_bonobo 5y agoInterestingly, Mussolini getting the trains to run on time is a myth as well. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/ It's similar to how the Nazis claimed the Autobahn as their success, even though they were started under the Weimar Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn
- nerdponx 5y agoIs Snopes having a hard time with money? The article (on mobile) had two huge full-width ads that you had to scroll past, and a persistent banner ad at the bottom, and they're still asking for donations: https://files.catbox.moe/szanpo.jpeg https://files.catbox.moe/szanpo.jpeg https://files.catbox.moe/j9qerx.jpeg https://files.catbox.moe/j9qerx.jpeg I don't mind them trying to fund themselves, but those aren't exactly vetted "ethical ads", are they?
- nebula8804 5y agoYou say that yet even catbox.moe is asking for money. Go check their front page.
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- nunez 5y agoif facebook can maintain mbasic, then reddit can maintain old. the onboarding funnel is towards new reddit anyway, old is mature and _appears_ stable, and most folks new to the platform will use their official app. i can see the API becoming more restrictive in the coming years, like Facebook and Twitter’s before it.
- Semaphor 5y agoThe fabricated issues with old are starting to appear, though. Slow reddit now supports markdown code blocks with 3 `’s instead of 4 spaces, which gets rendered as normal inline-text on old. Using the editor to insert links with _ in them on slow, will escape the underscores (…/this_is/ => …/this\_is/), breaking the links for users of the fast version. The worst part (for me) is, that I actually like the new reddit. In compact mode it’s cleaner than old while not wasting any space compared to old. But sadly their performance targets were something like "Uh, I guess pages should probably load in under 500ms" which is in no way acceptable for me.
- jstx1 5y ago> Slow reddit now supports markdown code blocks with 3 `’s instead of 4 spaces, which gets rendered as normal inline-text on old. Reading through advent of code solutions has been a mess because of this. Some people just won't 4-space it.
- nunez 5y agotons of scrolling gifs blow through that performance high-watermark, especially on mobile (even on the M1 iPad)
- Semaphor 5y agoI don’t care much about mobile, and even if I didn’t have a gif-animation-blocker extension installed, it wouldn’t be that much of an issue as they barely get used in the subreddits I read in ;)
- pithon 5y agoI only last as long there as old.reddit.com does.
- GSimon 5y agoI don't know how anyone enjoys the new design, old.reddit.com I can browse so much more effectively.
- jdgoesmarching 5y agoI last as long as the APIs allow Apollo to be amazing.
- petepete 5y agoI've been saying this for years. Reddit's official app is very poor and they've broken the mobile web experience by choice. The day Sync stops working will be my final day on the platform.
- jpe-210 5y agoAnyone on an iOS device using Reddit that doesn't have this application is missing out. I've said it before, but old.reddit.com and Apollo are the only methods I use to browse the site. If either dies or the API becomes private/non-existent then I'm out.
- mdp2021 5y ago> API I just checked: the API does not (seem to) allow to retrieve items by date. Which means that a major fault of the site cannot be fixed through the API: reading the post history through random access, e.g. the posts of a specific date in a section. (Although, one could probably harvest through the API an index of "fullnames" (IDs) and associate them to their dates or use them directly for random access in the queries - "list starting with the newest, fill DB of IDs and give me the last; list from that last, fill DB of IDs and give me the new last; loop until end". Not really the most practical way to use a repository.) > downvote The worst attack against civilization after - (I can't think of anything) - is an encouragement to vote according to "how does that make you feel".
- majani 5y agoold.reddit is destined to be nuked after the company goes public.
- rhines 5y agoI honestly don't know how people use new Reddit. On my 2017 laptop with a quadcore i7, SSD, and 16GB RAM, using Ubuntu 16.04 and either Chrome or Firefox, and with a 100Mb/s fiber connection, it just loads glacially slow and causes my fans to come on at full speed. And that's just with a single tab - with Reddit I usually end up scrolling through and opening quite a few tabs. If they kill off old Reddit, there's no way I'll be able to tolerate using the site. Surely I'm not alone in this, or perhaps 99% of the traffic is mobile users on recent phones?
- micromacrofoot 5y agothat's like hoping for a time machine
- quitit 5y agoAre you sure you don't want to veer into /r/popular. /r/Askwomen: What are 100% effective ways at turning you on? /r/Teenagers: Every1 who wears their PJs to bed, I'll tell you your favourite band. /r/ <<literally every subreddit>>: I HAVE A CAT, NAME IT FOR ME. /r/NoStupidQuestions: If a woman shakes my hand is that code for sex? /r/Askmen: What's your one perfect way to get a girlfriend? /r/Pics: Here's 10,000 photos of people being gross on airplanes, what's something passive aggressive that I can do instead of just asking them to stop? /r/Antiwork: I donated my heart to my boss and he fired me /r/TooAfraidtoask: How to get girlfriend???? /r/explainlikeimfive: Do girls get horny too? how?
- jorts 5y agoI use reddit all the time and look at none of these things. Despite some obnoxious or downright terrible subs, it's still a useful or entertaining site for folks of many interests.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago/r/pics: Blatant political grandstanding mixed in with images meant to be evocative and establish mental association. Here's a smiling photo of Obama. Remember Obama? Picture of rednecks in pickup trucks with Trump flags, next to a photo of Taliban in trucks with flags. /r/politics: wanton hyperbole, plain and simple. "Screenshots of Tweets" Subreddits /r/Antiwork: Literally every problem, shortcoming, or thing you don't like is ultimately because of capitalism. /r/LateStageCapitalism: Same as above, but we need at least two subreddits about this to really hammer the point home. /r/WhitePeopleTwitter: Leftist hot-takes du jour, as well as well-trodden reposts. /r/BlackPeopleTwitter: Leftist hot-takes but posted by 'verified' reddit users. /r/MurderedByWords: Tomi Lahren and Strawmen being mocked via tweet /r/MurderedByAOC: Pretty much any AOC tweet posted by u/IrlOurPresident /r/AOC: Just in case you haven't seen u/IrlOurPresident's post on the front page yet.
- imgabe 5y agoThere’s a lot of kids and teens on Reddit. I’m glad I was a teen on the Internet in the walled garden of AOL, so all the dumb and hormone-driven things I said there are probably lost on a hard drive in a landfill somewhere.