Historical code from reddit.com
github.com
github.com
The real value of reddit goes down annually.
They got rid of the boobies and kept the gore and violence.
Its mostly a machine for manufacturing Marvel & SW fandom.
I would keep using Reddit sync I guess.
If you're doing that often or if you're part of the "HN Crowd" it should be trivial to write a quick bookmarklet to do the re-write for you.
The best UX is usually contradictory to monetization.
The best UX takes a ton of extra work.
Why not let the Executives in Sales and Growth erect the walls and moats that keep your users stuck in place?
Actually, what if someone came up with an app that had no user created content whatsoever and was just an infinite-scroll of corporate ads? I bet it would make millions.
If you login as a user you see comments in a different style than the guest view of comments. The guest view of comments on new new reddit is even more awful.
People don't like when someone changes their toys. But that doesn't mean that new toy is a screw up, it's not something you got used to.
Reddit code is trash. The old version is just much simpler and therefore less annoying. If it weren't for the fact that the smaller subreddits have lots of value, no one would put up with it.
I don't think it's any better now...
I’d like to know others’ opinions on darkreader: is it a great security threat. I perused the information it discloses it gets access to but have not seen many online criticisms.
Performance.
Just get new reddit design to load content as quickly and 80%+ of the complaints will go away.
I have spent way too much time following 3 separate conversations in a forum thread looking for the specific information I want.
With reddit (and HackerNews) it's so much easier to track individual sub-threads and see what's going on, and the voting system (while it can and does lead to echo chambers) is also great for promoting better content, IMO.
The downside is that every discussion feels like a race. Trying to have a conversation on Reddit or HN is vastly more stressful than it ever was on old forums — even compared to places where people were screaming at each other. You have six hours to get your point across before the thread dies. There's a tendency for unproductive one-on-ones to occur that wouldn't be possible with traditional threads.
But the upside is that Reddit is (so far) the best place to find out whether I should try the new cookies at Trader Joe's or whether some off-brand of iPhone cables are reliable.
The problem with massive threads, I feel like, still exists with forums, but the opposite. It's usually folly to comment on a popular thread early on a traditional forum, as your comment will just be swept up with all the other excited comments. I think the answer to both is to use them for smaller communities, which is why I think reddit is best for hobby communities and whatnot.
It used to take longer for a thread to die, but comments have always solidified rather quickly.
This was fine, anyways, because each thread was an archive of the state of mind of the people involved at the time. If the conversation continues, it should continue in an entirely different thread, and if you're new to the conversation, you can backtrack over the previous threads to get up to speed with everybody else. There was a real hivemind-like (in a non-derogatory sense) stream of consciousness that everybody could participate in.
This is impossible now, though, because of moderators preventing multiple threads subjectively "related" to one another being on the first 5-8 pages at once.
Worst of all is the "megathreads", which aggregate literally over a hundred links to external sites into a single post, where people can't even vote on them individually. The entire benefit of the format of Reddit is user-filtered content, so you don't have to read literally the entire internet to find your way to something useful.
With all the hype around AI, I feel like there is so much low-hanging fruit in the realm of "human algorithms" that everyone has failed to explore over the last 15ish years of stagnation (and decay) in social media. People need useful processes and structures, not magic question-answer machines, or recommendations based on "who they really are inside."
Just imagine, for instance, if HN allowed you to vote specifically on backlinks to previous threads for each individual post. As of now, there's no easy way to know how far a discussion on a particular topic has advanced in the past, and judge whether you're about to say something redundant. If users could easily post a related thread and get some signal back about whether it was helpful, it would occur to them more often to re-post relevant discussions. Thread-backlinks competing with fresh comments and other links is just too much noise.
If you look at the discussion around the "Clean Code, Horrible Performance" article, there is a followup which addresses some of the claims the commenters made about the original. Then, in the comments for that article (across all platforms), you find people claiming that nobody would ever actually say those things.
Eventually people are going to realize the UX provided by AI isn't actually that great, and rediscover that DAGs are really useful.
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
I tried like 10 different reddit apps. None of them has the look and feel of the light-weight i.reddit did. I dont even mention that those apps often dont have tabs + history cannot be shared with browser.. Seriously why there is no app that behaves the way i.reddit behaved?
I also dont understand how the really-really old reddit "frame" (top 10 upvoted comments on left side of the screen) died. This was just so damn good. Internet supposedly moved forward due to "security", but why there cant be some sort of a browser plugin that can display the original site on 90% of the screen and top 10 reddit comments (i.reddit style with nesting) on the left?
[1] https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/Install-guide
[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20120501073813/http://blog.reddi...
The api shows created_at as 2008-06-18 but this seems like relevant info that should display in the ui.
“Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. (Disclosure: We used my web.py library.) The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain.”
Django back then had notable nuances at scale and if you were migrating over a codebase in another language I'm not sure it would've been a viable thing to entertain.
new reddit is only 11% of total users, old reddit is only 12% at this point