everybody on ilx complains about reddit

xp oh, i see. i guess i don't see that because i don't link my google account to chrome. i believe that's a chrome setting you can turn off.

bigger issue is that Reddit is just really bad for conversation, it's hard for any comment longer than a couple sentences to get more than a few upvotes, which means most people just won't see it, and even if someone replies, if you start replying to that you just wind up in a horrible nesting situation which quickly becomes utterly unreadable

I also hate recipe websites, but after all the faff there is usually a recipe at the end.

A two day blackout was never going to make them change their minds. Nothing short of permanently going dark was going to do that.

I was late to Reddit, only joined 4 years back bcs everyone'd abandoned FB and I hate twitter and wanted new grist.

TBH I have not experienced a jot of what the fuss is about. I dont use 3rd party OR the native app - I just browse Reddit in Chrome. Oh, the site determinedly tries to force me onto the app every time I refresh with a rude popup but I just doggedly dismiss it.

I've said it upthread but if you stick to yr own corners its a mostly pleasant experience. Gaming reddits are especially useful for detailled tips and charts and whatnot. My greatest disappointment is that /r/melbourne has decided to just close shop completely and move to Discord and I agree with ppl upthread - it is NOT a replacement, Discord is just a fucking roided up IRC client and I'm too old and busy to fuck with instachat. The whole point of forums is you can take your time to read and respond when you want.

I do miss Usenet, on that front.

the admin on one discord I’m a member of switched a few channels to a forum mode that’s kind of ok. good for persistent threads that don’t get lost in bot spam.

good detail in this case study on trying to stay afloat in a sea of garbage

https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai

thanks for sharing that. i'm glad we are finally allowed to talk about this topic

Multi-xposts: people complaining about the terrible mobile web experience were probably referring to this recent experiment in deliberately breaking functionality.

If you didn't encounter it, count yourself lucky. It was way more obnoxious than the single pop-up when the page initially loads; it popped up again any time you tried to upvote, respond, or post a comment, and the pop-up actively prevented you from doing any of those things on the mobile website no matter how many times you told it to fuck off.

*upvote, respond, post a comment, expand a comment thread, "show more replies," or do basically anything other than look at the OP and the top two or three responses.

i thought Reddit CEO Steve Huffman came off bad in his interview with The Verge

this new one with NBC News is disqualifying

Reddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting (like not paying bills) at Twitter. insane. https://t.co/xE4aqxVkl1 pic.twitter.com/opBU6gD2Bk

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 16, 2023

considering reddit's role in building up the cult of musk there would be a symmetry to the platform getting totally muskified

which would presumably mean the return of explicit nazism among other things

"So Twitter lost 70% of its revenue and I said HELL YEAH GIMME SOME OF THAT"

Had a feeling that this would turn out to be the case.

Rough couple of weeks for these guys.

Reddit’s month may be going from bad to worse.

Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.

In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.

Some subs are now allowing NSFW posts in protest as Reddit has a policy of not allowing ads on NSFW subs. Check out /r/interestingasfuck as one of these.

Also to avoid the ugly desktop UI try old.reddit.com. As long as that's still around I'll still use Reddit at least on desktop. Reddit Enhancement Suite still works with it, fortunately.

Spez's recent comments are only going to embolden protests, trolling and backlash. I wouldn't be surprised if a clone successfully pops up by the end of the year and Reddit experiences the very kind of exodus that helped buoy their success back in 2005.

100% old Reddit is the way to go

I dont mind the look of nu-reddit? But I guess its all I ever knew having come in late.

This chart from SubredditStats show the daily comments and posts for 5 major subreddits: r/news, r/facepalm, r/mademesmile, r/oddlysatisfying, r/mildlyinfuriating.

And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe543d86b-53c1-417d-8b01-807f48a205c6_1317x273.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

from https://www.garbageday.email/p/were-all-living-on-rmademesmiles

Too bad they didn't come to ilx!

Turns out Reddit talks about us just as much as we talk about reddit

https://reddit.com/r/PeeKitchen/s/x6KPaHdnNZ

Dare we ask why you were on a sub called PeeKitchen? :/

It would have to be a sub rly

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/XgAoN4h.png

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-soldier-indicted-attempting-pass-national-defense-information-peoples-republic-china

how to not get caught selling state secrets site:reddit.com

i just visited reddit for the first time since... idk, july?

why did i waste so much time there?

Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI company
https://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html?guccounter=1

As the moderator of my town's subreddit, I suppose I should have some sort of doomed-to-fail opinion about data privacy. If it wasn't opvious already, only "AI" buzzword compliant b.s. is getting funding - all of it spent to monetize the shit out of everyone and everything.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f94j0y/oc_how_much_of_reddit_is_pornographic/

can't imagine how this could go wrong

Reddit's IPO plans are the stupidest thing I've heard in a while

(specifically this plan: https://apnews.com/article/google-reddit-ai-partnership-a7f131c7cb4225307134ef21d3c6a708) which IMO just means most people who care will stop using reddit