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>[Reddit says] that usage of third party apps is increasing over time, and this is a threat to them. [Reddit] raised the question of what would happen if such a
by jjulius 4y ago
>[Reddit says] that usage of third party apps is increasing over time, and this is a threat to them. [Reddit] raised the question of what would happen if such apps became the majority, in which case it would be unreasonable to expect the minority of official app users to bear the costs for everyone else.
I mean, let's not look internally and figure out what we (read: Reddit) could do to improve our app. Let's just continue to ignore the negative feedback we've been getting regarding the changes we've made for the last few years, and the fact that people use third-party apps because what we provide is garbage. There's nothing we need to fix, it's the users who need to get used to it.
Reddit's attitude towards users can essentially be summed up as, "The beatings will continue until morale improves".
- fphhotchips 4y agoReddit continues to forget what made them successful: the collapse of Digg when they pulled the same shit that Reddit keeps trying on now. I don't think they quite understand the ground they're losing to Discord.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago> I don't think they quite understand the ground they're losing to Discord. And this is frustrating to me as a user, because Discord is much more of a pain to try to search and navigate.
- spondylosaurus 4y agoYeah, I was gonna say—Reddit's UX has been getting steadily worse for years now, but Discord is a poor replacement. No hate to Discord's own UX, it's just a totally different kind of experience for what Reddit is (supposed to be).
- rhaksw 4y agoThere is so much they don't understand about their own product. Their motto "dive into anything" means go deep. Yet logged out viewers are only shown a depth of one or two levels of comments, and they recently toyed with dropping the maximum depth of comments from 10 to 5 on both the redesign and old reddit. Basically, they are copying other social media comment sections because they forgot their niche and they think the other model is more successful. I expect what will happen is existing users will leave, and nobody will come from other platforms to fill the gap. One of their most popular draws has been AMAs from public figures, and they haven't done much else in this vein. They could be hosting written debates from well known figures. Constrain their responses in length and number, say one comment per day, max 500 words, on controversial subjects like DEI [1]. Instead they want to lock it all down (to sanitize for advertisers? Or perceived popular viewpoints?). Meanwhile the only metric they consistently report, number of upvotes, is down 48% YoY! It was 46 billion in 2021 [2] and 24 billion in 2022 [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/live/elG_zyZya5g https://www.youtube.com/live/elG_zyZya5g [2] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-recap-2021 https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-recap-2021 [3] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-recap-2022-global https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-recap-2022-global
- 0xy 4y agoReddit is incapable of being neutral on political topics. Anything even remotely to the right is attacked with numerous transparent tactics such as: - Reducing their reach, they admit to this - Stealth editing comments by the CEO - Upvote manipulation - Admin bans on mods who don't follow opaque, shifting and clearly biased rules - Outright handing over subreddits to mods who agree with reddit Reddit is not anything even close to a place for debate, because there is no free speech. After all, the CEO just jumps into the database and edits comments on a whim from a petty political debate. Less than two years ago Reddit hired a transgender admin who was known for defending pedophiles (they vehemently defended a rapist of a 10 year old girl), and censoring any criticism of this person until forced to back down by mass protest. These positions are extreme left, not even liberals could support them.
- rhaksw 4y agoYou'll get no argument from me that Reddit could achieve more by doing less content moderation.
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- djbusby 4y agoIs it our assumptions? No! Its the users preferences that are wrong!
- dehrmann 4y agoThis has gone both ways. Apple was right to remove optical drives from Macbooks over user objections, but wrong to insist the touch bar and butterfly keyboard was a good thing.
- LocalH 4y agoThis is the status quo at the moment. The days of strong, robust third-party clients for a service that don't get squashed by said service are on the long tail at the moment. They figured out that they can monetize users, and thus third-party clients eat into that revenue. Thus the idea of "approving" third-party clients exists. I miss the heyday of programs like Trillian.
- Root_Denied 4y agoMan, seeing Trillian mentioned in the wild unlocked a core memory. These days I've been trying out Franz and (more recently) RamBox as ways to connect multiple chat services under a single program. The family Slack, Facebook Messenger, and a couple other programs go in there and I never run the native apps or log on to their websites in my browser.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI can’t stand the blending of ads with the content and the whole way irrelevant crap is spammed in there which makes it hard to follow any thread.