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They're just trying to manufacture a reason to kill off old reddit. Someone internally clearly hates the fact that its still quite popular, despite all the effo
by 20k 3mo ago
They're just trying to manufacture a reason to kill off old reddit. Someone internally clearly hates the fact that its still quite popular, despite all the efforts to make it unusable so far
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo agoNew Reddit for my phone has decided to put a bottom popup forcing me to the app. The second old goes away I’ll never go that site again except for search results. I ADORE that a publicly traded tech giant is so fucking stupid.
- garciasn 3mo agoTheir users and those users data are the product; you are insignificant in the eyes of their shareholders.
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo agoYou don’t seem to understand. It isn’t about me. Or even people like me. Slowly they kill themselves. It might not even be obvious to people, but they’ll slowly turn away at this or the next thing or the next one after that. I’ll be here long after Reddit at this rate. MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. Does anyone think Reddit is the shit in 2026? And that is without anything put next to it.
- rmunn 3mo agoThe word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe: > MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to it. This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. > MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. What you actually wrote claimed that MySpace seemed great, but then Facebook was even better. Which makes it easy to explain why people jumped ship. I don't have an actual point to make about MySpace or Facebook. (I never used MySpace, and only used Facebook once, two decades ago, because the social group I was in at the time was using Facebook as their only means of announcing events — once I moved to a different town I dropped Facebook and closed my account). I just wanted to comment about the grammatical structure of that sentence, because I thought it was fascinating. The word "the" is so often mere filler, which could be omitted and the sentence would still be perfectly understandable. (Hence why many languages, such as Russian, don't have the word "the" at all). But here's a counterexample to that general rule, a sentence where omitting one since instance of the word "the" inverted the meaning.
- chrisweekly 3mo agoYes! You're gonna love Ismo (the Finnish standup who pokes fun at quirks of the English language). This bit^1 on the word "shit" was the first I saw of him online. I've since seen him live and, I guess if you know, you know. Genius. 1. https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO
- prmoustache 3mo ago> This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. I think original[1] Facebook UX was probably fine and clear enough for anyone but I would say that most people didn't jump ship: their first social media use started with facebook. And that was because FB grew bigger and faster, not because people were migrating from Myspace. Myspace has only been mostly limited to teenagers and a small fraction of music artists. Growth just slowed earlier because it never attracted many adults. It grew when people didn't have a smartphone and were not terminally online yet. It was a niche. The main difference was the paradigm/mental imagery. Myspace was about opening the door to your teenager bedroom with all the posters on the wall and stickers on the workbooks. Facebook was about publishing and reading personal diaries. [1]no idea how is the current one as I have been without account for 5 years now
- alex1138 3mo agoOriginal Facebook was still stolen from ConnectU/houseSYSTEM and Myspace was reasonable about granular privacy controls (idk about Friendster. I imagine it was) whereas FB continually subverted it because MZ doesn't believe in privacy as a concept
- inigyou 3mo agoNow Facebook is worse than MySpace ever was. A tech company dying has little to do with the quality of the product. Remember, enshittification brings in more money, not less.
- numpad0 3mo agoManagement wanting a thing to be the core value and what the core value is are different. Tumblr didn't hold its shape long enough to hit the ground physically when its new owner did what seemed perfectly reasonable to them.
- victor9000 3mo agoUBlock Origin can clear those on FF mobile with one of the Annoyances lists
- jonathanlb 3mo agoIf you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.
- Twistyfiasco 3mo agoYou can hide distracting items in safari to remove the popup.
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo agoTrue. But for me, I hide the “fuck you asshole, use our app!” bottom overlay, and it does go away, but then scroll stops working!
- foco_tubi 3mo agoFor a while the overlay blocked touch events AND spanned the entire viewport so you couldn’t swipe to go back, trigger the address bar and toolbar to display, etc. I would have to swipe to minimize the app and then go back to trigger the toolbar to hit the back button.
- Twistyfiasco 3mo agoYeah I had that too but then it stopped blocking my scroll. I think if you keep your finger on the page after hiding the item you keep control. But holy moly yes how user hostile.
- layer8 3mo agoTake a look at https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635 https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635.
- jaredhallen 3mo agoRequesting the desktop version of the site has solved that for me. For now.
- rimworld 3mo agothis
- BoxwoodSeed 3mo agoI won't even go there for search results, as new reddit is unusable to me. Too many clicks to get anywhere. It's quite surprising that so many people seem to have no issue with it.
- MSFT_Edging 3mo agoFor years, reddit admins would lie to the faces of users saying those app redirects weren't supposed to prevent browsing the site in a mobile browser. They'd say "weird! looking into it, that shouldn't happen!". The owners of the site are hostile to the userbase. The new reddit where it doesn't let you read more than 3 comments before redirecting you to other posts is a cancer. Not to mention the ads that are somehow even more finely woven into posts than the old reddit.
- mrandish 3mo agoThe day they kill off old.reddit.com is the last time I'll visit Reddit (after >15 years, >7,000 comments & >70,000 karma). Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom userstyle CSS and uBlock make Reddit tolerable. Admittedly, Reddit might be fine with losing me because I only ever see the small niche subs I'm subscribed to, most have less than 100K subs and none have more than a million. I haven't seen the Reddit default home page or any content from the big reddit subs in over a decade.
- duxup 3mo agoSame, old makes Reddit useable.
- chrismarlow9 3mo agoDitto
- dieselgate 3mo agoLiterally yesterday I started getting a login wall for old.reddit. Not sure the targeting rules on this (it’s been sporadic across sessions/devices) but definitely on a mobile browser while on cellular data.
- scruple 3mo agoI've seen some weird behavior with it, as well. But I'm fine with it. I visit a single subreddit now and if they destroy the UX I'll only be happier for leaving.
- monksy 3mo ago> Someone internally clearly hates its spez. It's always spez.
- marysol5 3mo agoHe's sat in his bunker, wanking himself to death thinking about the end of the world.
- mrguyorama 3mo agoI bet he's super jealous that Epstein talked moot into bringing back /pol
- MagicMoonlight 3mo ago[dead]
- alex1138 3mo agoI don't know his entire life history so this is maybe unfair but internet companies are full of people like this. They fail upward and extract value from content the users make spez/anyone else could very directly not do what they're doing. Step back and say 'this is wrong'. But they're going to alienate everyone because they can These people should be preemptively fired/never hired from any job ever. If you can't show basic respect gtfo
- cindyllm 3mo ago[dead]
- boredpudding 3mo agoI'm not sure how statistics track it, but when you're moderator on a subreddit you can see how many visitors use old reddit. Last month for mine it was 1%. Now. This could be more due to their tracking not working for most old reddit users (I assume most have adblock), but it's unlikely to be a lot more. The large majority of Reddit users are on the app. I'm honestly surprised they haven't killed old reddit off yet, and yes, I've used it myself for the longest time until I started missing some features.
- PUSH_AX 3mo agoI see similar stats too, it really seems like old reddit has died off, I remember when the redesign was newer looking at these stats and old was dominating, so I'm inclined to trust them relatively.
- TFNA 3mo agoI used Old Reddit for a long time, but I could tell the vast majority of users were on the app now, just because the comment culture had changed completely. For example, posts now draw most of their comments within 30-60 minutes of posting, and then almost no comments thereafter. This is surely due to the app emphasizing continual novelty for the sake of engagement, and anything old is no longer shown. A big difference from before, when posts would draw discussion all day long. The use of a phone app as a default interface also means comments have become reduced to 140-character quips. If you post a solid paragraph or two on many hobby subreddits, you'll just come across as a weirdo.
- 20k 3mo agoAs far as I'm aware the big problem they have is that while most of the visitors use new reddit, a very significant chunk of commenters and mods still use old reddit which they can't really afford to lose
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