I’m 70 and found Reddit about 7 years ago. Was wonderful. Ended up getting banned probably for commenting on the fat stupid incompetent pedophile rapist Donald Trump. Fuck em. Time to move on.
Maybe Spez should charge a smol fee per search. Then another lil fee when the user clicks a result. Then he could charge a small fee per minute of reading the linked result. Spez sure is smart!
I hope Spez burns alive in a literal sense.
I already successfully block all Reddit ads. I use Old Reddit exclusively, as I cannot stand New Reddit.
So if Old Reddit goes, so do I.
To me it’s already gone since you have to login to use old reddit now
Keep making it worse, that will surely help. I have a suggestion: how about getting your stupid ban-happy admins under control?
So, they did everything that users said would kill the site and it… killed the site?
Good thing they already banned or drove out all the top human contributors. There’s no one left to say “I told you so.”
Fuck you u/spez and the bots you herd about.
This comment section is missing a big ol’
FUCK SPEZ
FUCK SPEZ
I gotchu fam.
🫶
Idk, I think that even in late stage capitalism demanding constant “growth” when they used to be one of the most visited websites of the entire internet is just delusional.
Not to mention while also doing a lot of things hostile to their users. But yeah, even if they could go back to what it was in 2012, perpetual growth isn’t sustainable.
It was good. Long long ago. Entertaining. Infuriating. Educational. For the most part civil.
Now its mostly swamp. it’s the trump era turd swamp. It’s more a cesspool - swamps are great places - trumpville cesspool.
Ending anonymity is 180° out from its starting point. Taken over by corporate it’s like everything else they ‘buy’ - for their profit.
reddit was never good, it was tolerable at best. The fact that in the early days the jailbait sub was allowed to be one of the biggest on the site and was only pulled after national media attention is really all you need to know to reinforce that belief, though we could also point to so much more.
Reddit is now so far away from what made it great in the beginning that it really isn’t even the same site. It just sucks now.
Agreed. It’s midwest facebook now. Corporate reddit.
its facebook 2.0, just havnt fully become its clone yet. is suspect the next step is eliminating OLD reddit with a few months for logged in users. and then require Facial recognition and valid DL too.
Steve was always going to fuck it up. I recall a incident where he thought it would be cute to directly edit a comment in the database, bypassing the indicator that a comment had been edited after the fact. He never had any kind of good sense.
Fuck reddit and fuck Steve Huffman.
You are downvoted now for what used to be standard reddit etiquette. That site lost its entire identity. 2 days ago they rolled out age verification in some European countries. So, I naturallt redacted all my posts and comments and left.
They’ll put it back. I did that too and deleted the account, go look now and it’s all there. Oddly they left the last things which were very critical so I doubt they even looked at what was there.
How did you delete your comments? I’m thinking about doing the same.
There were scripts that would replaced the text and remove the comment, they don’t work anymore after the api fuckery.
You might be able to find one that runs in your browser but it’ll be really slow.
Never had that problem with older accounts. I guess I have to go in there to be permabanned. Shouldn’t take more than a comment or two.
“Israel is doing genocide to the Palestine peoples”, boom. Banned.
he apparently idolizes Musk, so thats whats he aiming for. thats why there have been so many purges, because of musk telling spez to suppress dissent.
He’s a nazi, therefore a sociopathic parasite.
“Wait our traffic is down? I know! Let’s give people more of what they hate!”
Anyone actually uses Reddit search? That thing has been so horribly broken since the very beginning that some of the best subreddits (AskHistorians, for example) openly recommend using a standard search engine with the “site:reddit.com” parameter.
It’s depressingly hilarious how awful the search is. I don’t think anyone could make a worse search if they tried. Half the time it doesn’t even work for exact matches.
I didn’t think they could make it worse… But apparently they found a way, according to the title of this story. 😄
Windows start menu search exists
Back when I used to visit that site and tried the search, it was pretty much on par with Outlook’s search. You couldn’t find what you were looking for, basically.
Outlook at least works if the keyword is in the subject line. Reddit search can’t even do that.
😂 pathetic
No, its useless, i suspect they made it that way so people would use google to search for specific reddit question, and of course the question you typed in google is what pops up for the question you are looking for 90% of the time.
this will make people less likely to click a ad-link. no wonder for the past year they have been going after OF and people who are trying to earn money by directing to thier own site. reddit wasnt getting a piece of the aciton, so they increased thier filter sensitivity every time they do a sweep.
everyone already searches reddit by adding “reddit” to a google search. putting ads in the native search kind of confirms nobody was using it
yup i do that most of the time.
Same here, it’s muscle memory at this point.
People still search reddit?
Mostly through Google, which kind of proves the point.
It’s bad now that they increased the ad size in posts. Now you have to scroll more to see the first comment.
