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Comment by kstrauser | Hacker News Reader

The Reddit revolt worked for me. It broke me of the habit of hanging out there.

It's crazy how night and day the quality tank was after they essentially killed their API. The good contributors were all pushed away or became less active.

And with the official app constantly trying to push posts from random subreddits into people's feeds, you constantly get comments from people who have no idea of the concept of a subreddit, and leave stupid comments cause they don't know the context the post was made in.

It really was. Apollo was the reddit UI for me. The old reddit web page looks awful on a phone. The new page is a mess of algorithmic disaster on any device. I cannot stand their 1st-party app. When they killed the API, I no longer enjoyed using reddit on my phone, which is where I accessed it 95% of the time. They made it pretty easy for me to stop using the site at all.

OTOH, I had previously posted often enough to get in on the IPO, and that made up for a lot of the annoyances.

I'm surprised they still support the old web UI which is the only way to make reddit usable these days.

Once they pull the plug on that I'll be finally done (though I'm already so inactive it won't make a difference really)

Couldn't agree more. Pushing people away from 3rd party apps was a business decision I understand as much as I disliked it (Boost gang gang) but the unusable nightmare of an app they pushed me toward was such an insult that I ended up just off the platform entirely. Any social media site that loses the bathroom loses the war, and Reddit was no longer my #1 for #2s.

You, sir, are a poet.

I've pretty much ignored the various Reddit revolts. What drove me away from Reddit and Imgur was the constant spam of US politics. The recent Imgur revolt actually made the site better for me (after the middle finger spam ended) - political posts went from ~50% to less than 10%.

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