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I personally don't find the ads at all objectionable on the old.reddit.com site. They blend in with the other content reasonably well (so you see a Jetbrains ad
by MattGaiser 3y ago
I personally don't find the ads at all objectionable on the old.reddit.com site. They blend in with the other content reasonably well (so you see a Jetbrains ad when on /r/programmerhumor), don't slow down the site, either fit the flow well or hang out on the side, etc.
I find the targeting to be good enough that I look forward to the ads to a certain extent as I have found all sorts of fun products that way.
- mr_mitm 3y agoPlus, they have the Reddit gold program. Not sure if that is enough, but does Reddit really need 2000 employees and hundreds of millions of CV money? I have a hard time estimating what it costs to run a site like Reddit.
- dgb23 3y agoMy guess is that many marketing based sites bloat their staff and expenses to a self perpetuating and useless degree.
- Nux 3y agoWow.. Didn't know this. It sounds like something has gone wrong there. Good old greed maybe?
- primax 3y agoI'm a very attached reddit user and I have no idea what they could be doing with 2000 employees. I'm honestly shocked. The development they've done in the past 5 years could have been done with like 50-100 people, including keeping all the SRE going. Insane.
- vxNsr 3y agoReddit has been overwhelmed by a certain type of employee that spends more time worrying about the political opinions of their colleagues and less about excellence and productivity. Similar to twitter which turned out to be a finely tuned Rube-Goldberg machine that required hourly maintenance to keep online. Im not saying I’m smart enough to make things work well but that such people exist and they don’t/didn’t work at either twitter or Reddit.
- dgb23 3y agoI don’t mind context targeted ads, they are even useful sometimes. User targeted ads are invasive and I avoid them.