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Reddit is not going to change. It seems quite a few people don't mind being abused a bit to get the convenience they want. Nothing's going to happen.

by HKH2 3y ago

uw_rob 3y ago
I am not so sure that I agree here. What's interesting about reddit is that it is one site with very different UIs. The official reddit app has a focus on video/images and looks to be in competition with TikTok. old.reddit.com and Apollo are very much text centric apps. From my understand, reddit has a traffic breakdown of 50/50 on the text centric vs. visual centric UIs. With the UIs like Apollo being killed, and old.reddit.com eventually going away as well[0], I think users will genuinely leave as they have killed the text based UIs. [0] Despite any promises, the writing is on the wall.
- skinnymuch 3y ago
  Is desktop new Reddit counting as text centric? From what others have said, 3rd party apps and old reddit have relatively low usage.
  - Rebelgecko 3y ago
    On the sub I mod, old and new reddit are basically neck and neck with ~10% of traffic. The bulk of traffic comes from apps, but I don't think there's a breakdown in the modtools of 1p vs 3p apps
- paradox460 3y ago
  They killed compact a few months ago, in light of recent events probably to drive people to the "official" apps
  - Somdubai 3y ago
    Compact was perfect for me and its death really has curtailed my usage of Reddit
    - paradox460 3y ago
      Glad you liked it. 13 years ago reddit had an absolutely atrocious mobile experience, and was unusable on my (then new) Motorola Droid (milestone). So it was mostly a labor of "what do I need to browse reddit". KeyserSosa, reddit's GM at the time and now their CTO, was rather supportive of my development efforts; let me make the crappy little thing I was building an official part of reddit after a conversation on IRC
andrewfelix 3y ago
Some of Twitter's best content creators have given up on it. That combined with blue tick prioritisation and lack of moderation has seen it turn into a cesspit. I don't see why that doesn't happen on Reddit. Sure the people who go to discuss player trades in international sport and doom scroll dank memes will stick around, but a lot of the quality content could evaporate.
- HKH2 3y ago
  How many people have stuck to Mastodon?

Reddit is not going to change. It seems quite a few people don't mind being abused a bit to get the convenience they want. Nothing's going to happen.

by HKH2 3y ago

Reddit is not going to change. It seems quite a few people don't mind being abused a bit to get the convenience they want. Nothing's going to happen.

uw_rob 3y ago

I am not so sure that I agree here. What's interesting about reddit is that it is one site with very different UIs. The official reddit app has a focus on video/images and looks to be in competition with TikTok. old.reddit.com and Apollo are very much text centric apps. From my understand, reddit has a traffic breakdown of 50/50 on the text centric vs. visual centric UIs. With the UIs like Apollo being killed, and old.reddit.com eventually going away as well[0], I think users will genuinely leave as they have killed the text based UIs. [0] Despite any promises, the writing is on the wall.

skinnymuch 3y ago
Is desktop new Reddit counting as text centric? From what others have said, 3rd party apps and old reddit have relatively low usage.
- Rebelgecko 3y ago
  On the sub I mod, old and new reddit are basically neck and neck with ~10% of traffic. The bulk of traffic comes from apps, but I don't think there's a breakdown in the modtools of 1p vs 3p apps
paradox460 3y ago
They killed compact a few months ago, in light of recent events probably to drive people to the "official" apps
- Somdubai 3y ago
  Compact was perfect for me and its death really has curtailed my usage of Reddit
  - paradox460 3y ago
    Glad you liked it. 13 years ago reddit had an absolutely atrocious mobile experience, and was unusable on my (then new) Motorola Droid (milestone). So it was mostly a labor of "what do I need to browse reddit". KeyserSosa, reddit's GM at the time and now their CTO, was rather supportive of my development efforts; let me make the crappy little thing I was building an official part of reddit after a conversation on IRC

andrewfelix 3y ago

Some of Twitter's best content creators have given up on it. That combined with blue tick prioritisation and lack of moderation has seen it turn into a cesspit. I don't see why that doesn't happen on Reddit. Sure the people who go to discuss player trades in international sport and doom scroll dank memes will stick around, but a lot of the quality content could evaporate.

HKH2 3y ago
How many people have stuck to Mastodon?