Digg vs Reddit also comes to mind.
https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/d78wi/digg_loses_...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-01-01%202...
https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/d78wi/digg_loses_...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-01-01%202...
Reddit is on path to do same. If reddit ever kills old.reddit, exodus will happen.
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But seriously, a designer should be thinking about the consumption/participation model as opposed to just the eyeballs/adwords-please-kill-me-now model...
The consumption and participation of a site is direct to the UX - and when DIGG basically made it a 100% consumption push, while also making participation weird/hard/less-desirable, that shit was dead.
Reddit is becoming a weird corporate bot colony and they are actively killing their UX.
I use Reddit exclusively in the "old" mode, but I wonder how impactful would this be. The Reddit redesign was basically done to cater to a wider audience (9gag, TikTok, etc). I feel that either at this point or in the near future the number of people that use old.reddit.com exclusively will be a small percentage of the whole lot of people using the new design. Particularly because Reddit is "strangling" out users of old.reddit by leaving them out of the new features (I normally see comments with stuff like :4222: which I assume are emoticons only available in the new reddit).
I posted a bunch of tips on how to set them up for speed - Like I said, as a daily redditor for 15 years, uhm I have the 1,000 Karma Stare.
For what it's worth, someone posted this Tampermonkey script that converts those codes to the proper custom Emoji's, on Old Reddit. It works well with Firefox at least:
You're not missing much
DIGG basically became what new Reddit looks like now, but they were specifically transparent that every post was essentially a paid marketing blob and the corporate commercial took over all of DIGG - pissed everyone off and they all flocked to Reddit.
Reddit is doing the same thing, however, when DIGG messed around with the UX, bots were not a thing in the same form they are now…
“Video killed the radio star” but now it’s
“Bot killed any sense of trust on social media”
You overestimate. Most people have moved on, and reddit gains new users every day who have no idea what old.reddit is.
Plausible, but if it really does happen it will be a landmark. Modern losing against old and ~crippled UX.