This response reads like the responses third-party reddit client developers gave when the API changes were announced. "What's going to happen? We don't know but we have a great working relationship with reddit and they said it SHOULD be fine..." and we all know how that turned out.
Linus from Linus Tech Tips was recently talking about how people have telling him he should kill the forum which is just a cost sink and just fully embrace the subreddit for years and he has adamantly refused for exactly this reason. Your entire community survives at the whim of increasingly toddler-ish CEOs.
I have a Braveheart edition Pinephone for experiments. I know that Pine64 devices are very bluntly a work in progress. I'm more specifically talking about Librem in this case.
You don't need to understand it according to Librem. They are marketing a "user-friendly"(their words) replacement for iPhone and Android. If this was a product sold for the most hardcore Linux users who dream about bash scripts then yeah this isn't a product for me and that's fine. But, that isn't what they are trying to sell and that is the problem.
They shouldn't need to understand it. I don't understand the first thing about how my phone works or mobile development in general. It just works and does what I need it to do.
You aren't going to make any meaningful change with that mindset because as far as many in the industry as concerned open offices are good enough. The lift from going from open office to 100% private offices is likely too much to move from a good enough.
This isn't The Sims. You can't always purchase the exact amount of square footage you need where you need it. Opening a second office or moving offices is not a casual endeavor.
What is a good alternative to open offices that make efficient use of space? Creating private offices for everyone seems like it would use quite a bit more square footage.
You can't compare this to COVID loan fraud. Those are apples and oranges. COVID relief loans had requirements but the watchdog that was meant to oversee it was rendered toothless. In this situation the only chance of you fraud is someone applying as someone else and you handle that the same way you handle all identity fraud.
I was talking about this book with a friend and they worked for the state qualifying people for government benefits. Think food stamps, welfare, etc etc. They said their job was a bullshit job. Why? Their reasoning was if you eliminated all the people who have to qualify people for benefits and just gave benefits to anyone who applied, you would end up spending less time and money.
IANAL but having dealt with GDPR lawyers in a past career, GDPR allows you to anonymize user data as in, if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here but it is not as if reddit has no way to keep deleted comments and still be GDPR compliant.
You might be misunderstanding what Cal Newport is saying here because he agrees with you. He is saying is the people who stay on top of their inboxes and multitask are perceived as being the most productive, not that they are in fact the most productive. He also wrote an entire book that might as well be about his hatred of email titled "A World Without Email," if you need further evidence of his position.
Is it lucky or was that situation an anomaly? Some people are unhinged but they are also keyboard warriors. I doubt even the unhinged redditors are going to go out and start assaulting people over this.
I also added reddit to my ublock filters. Amazing how I never realized how often I go on autopilot and type reddit.com/r/whateversubreddit. If anyone else wants to do it, just add ||reddit.com^$all to your filters in ublock origin.
I think you are reading "beating" as higher user count. I read it as better features and user experience. But even in terms of user count, enough people are using third-party clients like Apollo that reddit deemed it worthy to kill them.
I do agree this is an issue that needs to be addressed but you are also posting this on a website that is heavily moderated and runs as smoothly as it does because of the efforts of dang and the other moderators so I can't agree that reddit should just be the wild west.
The developer of RES said they do not know if the changes will hit them and it is up in the air.
> Reddit's public statements have been limited on this method, however we have been told we should see minimal impact via this route. However we are still not 100% sure on potential impact and are being cautious going forwards.[0]
Developers behind third-party clients were also told they should be fine with the new changes so reddit's word isn't worth anything. This is not just about clients but tools and bots as well.
> The vast majority of people who are visiting subreddits are doing so because they're actively seeking out the material being presented to them. These people are subscribers to the subreddits. Subreddits that "go dark" are not blocked for everyone. Their access is restricted ONLY for those who have not yet subscribed to the subreddit.
I don't believe this is true but I'm willing to test it out. I'll subscribe to a bunch of subreddits that intend to go dark and see what happens.
reddit is not a community. The subreddits are the community. I don't care about reddit as a whole but there are individual subreddits that if they change or go away then I no longer have a reason to use reddit.