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While the comments in some of the larger subreddits can be less than engaging, I think there's still a lot of value to be found in many of the more niche commun
by goplayoutside 5y ago
While the comments in some of the larger subreddits can be less than engaging, I think there's still a lot of value to be found in many of the more niche communities that are well moderated.
New reddit ('the redesign') is a disaster, and old.reddit.com + RES is what makes the site usable. It's going to be a tremendous loss if (when) they are no longer available.
lemmy.ml (no affiliation) looks interesting and it's one possibility for where to go next, but there is currently very little activity there for some of my interests.
- treesknees 5y agoI’ve never seen anyone talk about liking the New Reddit, but surely the team must have statistics or data to show it increases engagement and ultimately ad clicks. I want to say the real loss will be when Reddit removes their API and kills off 3rd party apps, but then again look at how successful Twitter is without 3rd party apps.
- jjeaff 5y agoI like the new reddit design. More whitespace, cleaner, and opening threads just opens them on top of the list of threads. But I also only have very performant machines with tons of memory and snappy processors on a fast internet connection. So I might be singing a different tune if that were not the case.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago> More whitespace, cleaner Yeah, only whitespace and only a minor of content sandwiched between the said white space. Even just two a bit longer than Reddit likes comments would be hidden at "click here". Maybe that would work on the mobile, but on mobile they nag for the app anyway and not on mobile I have a FullHD monitor which they treat as a iPhone 4 or somewhat similar. /rant
- arprocter 5y agoI don't think they promote 'old' - presumably the userbase is stagnant/slowly declining; whereas users of 'new' will always be growing, because they don't know old exists