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Counter-counter point: for years Reddit has been pushing for fewer article links and more locally hosted content. They started hosting their own images, then t
by piaste 3y ago
Counter-counter point: for years Reddit has been pushing for fewer article links and more locally hosted content.
They started hosting their own images, then their own videos. This is expensive to do, but perhaps they felt that it was worth it to keep users on their site instead of risking them wandering off to Imgur.
And the new design discourages actually reading the article. When you click on a "link", it sends you to the comment page which has a small embedded thumbnail and blurb. (The old design took you to the article directly).
- joelfried 3y agoCounter-counter-counter point: Reddit reached its heyday under the leadership that allowed people to leave and come back to discuss. Its current leadership has intentionally driven away a decent percentage of users within the last year. I do not think their decisions come from sound thinking but greed. They don't truly understand why they got big and now they're trying to squeeze all the money out of it they can before their luck runs out. I think they did much better trying to give their users a good experience and they are in the process of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. It just takes a long time for a zombie social network to die.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> Counter-counter-counter point (tangent) Does this remind anyone else of Melissa Peterson from Seattle, WA? [0] https://www.wnyc.org/story/1421-my-dog-hates-you-too/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/1421-my-dog-hates-you-too/
- geerlingguy 3y agoYeah, there are a larger number of communities that outright ban link posts now, and others which have a pretty strict guideline against any articles (labeling them as 'blogspam' or 'self-promotion' even when something is not... it's a tough job though because spam is incredibly frequent now).