Remember when Digg failed to address long standing issues and instead redesigned the site to be more like Twitter?
Prediction: The redesign is the straw that will break the Snoo's back.
Prediction: The redesign is the straw that will break the Snoo's back.
Reddit seems to be focusing mostly on the visual. While this may regress the site in some ways it shouldn't have the same relationship killing power.
- Infinite scroll without numbers to give you an idea of how far you've dug in.
- The titles now point to the comments rather than the articles.
- They took out the subreddit bar at the top of the page.
The general idea is that they want to control how you use the site.
And that's just for the desktop experience, and I didn't dig too far (a couple of hours). There may be other neat surprises lurking in there.
It looks like the muffins[0] grew shark teeth.
Edit: that snark may not be warranted... But at least, they grew too hungry for me as a user.
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0. as Jessica Livingston used to call them when they were doing YC
The new UI makes it more complex to make that choice though, because the position of the actual link isn't fixed, it is placed inline after the title.
Currently, you can browse the home page without moving the cursor horizontally (by keeping the cursor in place and scrolling, mostly).
Not anymore with the redesign.
As a user, I am more than happy with this change.
I don't see the "next one" that is already starting to steal some Reddit traffic that could possibly take over even if Reddit's design is similarly badly recieved.
Isn't it pretty well known that at that point a lot of the user activity was being faked by the Reddit team?
Their 'HOT' ordering makes the site look dead where they should probably take into account newer stories as everything in the 'HOT' ranking is years old (except for heavier trafficked subverses)
Totally out of context, I mean.
You might expect hate speech on political subreddits/subverses, but on Voat these were just out of the blue, and numerous.
Effectively, Voat is Reddit's "recycle bin." Judging from its content, I think the admins made the right call..
I definitely agree, but I also remember how Reddit was considered the dumping ground for users banned on Digg and content that wasn't good enough for Digg.
Today unpleasant content probably makes up a large percentage of Voat traffic. But if a few big subreddits moved over that percentage would be dwarfed and suddenly it's no longer a Recycle Bin.
- When reddit cracked down on the paedophilia subreddits
- When reddit banned fatpeoplehate
- When reddit banned and/or hid some of the more egregiously Nazi-ish subreddits.
So yeah, this is pretty much what you'd expect.
http://reddithistory.wikia.com/wiki/Digg_exodus
One place that I have gone to instead of Reddit lately is Hacker News... I have started using Reddit more as only a source for current events because it's easier to sift through (with categorized subreddits and all) than a Twitter stream of breaking news. But for science and tech talk, this place seems to have a higher quality discussion in the majority of the cases.
It was more focused on discussion (there are self-posts, r/AskReddit, etc.) and less on pure link sharing.
Digg v4 just gave many Digg users a reason to give reddit a chance (and maybe push through being initially put off by its design), and they never looked back, even after Digg resolved the initial issues.
But here it stands.
I wonder who will be the last person to claim it, and in turn, claim to be the Nostradamus. I suppose if you claim something often enough, you'll be right eventually.