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> "we do not want to keep supporting old.reddit" the second old.reddit goes is the second I stop using that site it's already very obviously chock full of slo
by red-iron-pine 3mo ago
> "we do not want to keep supporting old.reddit"
the second old.reddit goes is the second I stop using that site
it's already very obviously chock full of slop and AI bullshit, with some subs having long unavoidable lists of "your post was removed because you did not verify" trails that imply that automated posters found a thread and went hard
but add in privacy crushing bs -- no reason to be there anymore. Back to old school forums
- avadodin 3mo agoOld–school forums never left, still inhabited by the few boomers and genXers who could figure out the Internets back in the day and aren't dead yet. The gamification of Reddit and the ephemeral nature of the main page along with subreddits with varying amounts of overlap contributed to more active interactions, though. Some of the volume was lower quality but not all. The boomer posts about his petunia breeding program on a BBS and he gets feedback half a year later after the other active user gathers the energy to travel to the computer room again. On Reddit, maybe a zoomer would have asked if you can smoke petunias in Brazilian Portuguese, but that may still count as welcome human interaction to the old man. None of that applies to new deaddit, though.
- calvinmorrison 3mo agothe big click of reddit like yahoo forums and other earlier things is that each 'sub' reddit can have its own rules culture, etc. its like facebook groups in a way. Unfortunately with how bad reddit is, I see mostly my interest niche hobbies moving to facebook.
- nothercastle 3mo agoForms are sadly dead. They cost a lot to operate and maintain security updates for so without a critical mass of users they are dead
- samplatt 3mo agoJust like with VR, you can keep on claiming forums are "dead" all you like. Me and all my friends will keep on using them daily. therearedozensofus.gif
- soperj 3mo ago"Good thing you're the majority of people, then." - samplatt [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002685
- nothercastle 3mo agoThey are dead the same way newsgroups are dead. Some local communities survive some might even thrive but in aggregate more are lost than created
- b112 3mo agoCost a lot to operate? apt-get install forum-software. All security updates with apt-get updates. Use something like Debian, and you keep the same forum software for years with zero config changes, but with security updates. I know endless local groups. Bike clubs. Hobby groups. They still all run on forums and mailing lists. No ads. No tracking. No doom-scrolling or this and that. Cost? For many of them, a $5/month VM.
- inigyou 3mo ago
- chuckadams 3mo agoI never used to be an old.reddit die-hard, but new got so bad it chased me there to where I now use a browser extension to redirect all reddit links to old. I was convinced that the website continued to get worse so they could steer you into the app which hoovers up all your personal information. But then the app is so godawful unusable that I think we're just looking at straight-up incompetence. So yeah, I'm in the same boat: if they drop old, they drop me.
- pbhjpbhj 3mo agoSo, is it back to Digg, circle around to Slashdot, or is there a new kid on the block?
- wwweston 3mo agoIf the “protocols not platforms” philosophy is the right track, usenet/nntp.
- sanskritical 3mo agonntp was built on horribly naive assumptions that do not carry to the present day internet. nostr is a better option.
- drc500free 3mo agoFark hasn’t gone anywhere.
- gosub100 3mo agoThat solo dev who developed RES could have forked it and "stolen" the whole site if he wanted to. That would have been so epic.
- bakies 3mo agoI'm mostly just here now... More forums for other stuff would be nice though.
- robotnikman 3mo ago
- figmert 3mo agoI used to use infinity for reddit, after the api saga, I was able to patch it with my own api key since personal ones were still free. I lost the key since, and had to re-install Infinity, so when I go to the reddit api page, turns out they don't give you keys any more, and instead you need to sign up to their developer platform, which I requires a lot of hoops to get a key for free, and from what I understand, that's a big if. Anyway, needless to say I've stopped using it for the past 3 months or so. I still open old.reddit on my computer every now and then, but I use reddit so much less because of this.
- Gander5739 3mo agoThey started revoking the old personal api keys anyway.
- bakies 3mo agoI've almost stopped using it because 3rd party apps finally died a couple months ago. Old.reddit isnt too ergonomic on mobile and new is just awful. Seems like a lot of that sentiment here, they might just kill a big part of their userbase before IPO!
- jrochkind1 3mo agoIt's also like the only place left on the internet to reliably find real people reviewing things with real opinions.
- rnd0 3mo agoWith AI posts and karma farming -not to mention good old-fashioned astroturfing ...how reliable is that, really?
- jrochkind1 3mo agoand yet, it remains, in many subreddits.
- rnd0 3mo ago>Back to old school forums It's the year of Our Lord 2026. Good luck discovering forums that you don't already know about!