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Yeah, Slashdot's UI refresh definitely killed the site for me. Reddit was a breath of fresh air by comparison. I still remember when a coworker told me about it
by nunez 3y ago
Yeah, Slashdot's UI refresh definitely killed the site for me. Reddit was a breath of fresh air by comparison. I still remember when a coworker told me about it back in 2012. I literally stopped browsing Slashdot ever since that day.
Reddit had a lot of the same energy that /. did, but in areas other than tech, which I found fascinating. I've learned so much about so many things thanks to Reddit.
It's a real shame that their management seems to be interested in making it yet another "social media, but different" kind of experience.
- joe_the_user 3y agoThe sad thing is that having a high quality site seems to be actually worth little to the owners of the site. If your income is advertising, engagement and users with little impulse control seem to be the thing that brings value. And there seem to be few other ways to monetize a site.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoExactly. The only thing that really makes HN "work" is that YC has a very different incentive structure for what they get out of this site, versus all the other news aggregator/social media sites out there who need to maximize revenue.
- fsckboy 3y ago>Yeah, Slashdot's UI refresh definitely killed the site for me. Reddit was a breath of fresh air by comparison. the major exodus from slashdot to digg after a redesign was in 2007 Then the digg exodus to reddit after a resdesign was 2010
- xp84 3y agoHeh. Clearly, Reddit only survived their redesign because they kept the old one around too. All the cranky nerds have still never accepted the new one what, 8 years later? Tbh I find new Reddit far more usable than old, but perhaps if I had a slow computer or didn’t run JS or something, I could disagree?