Cool, now do the API and I'll consider not actively avoiding your website.
I won't. They'd have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.
And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it's way too bloated.
I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn't connect on VPN, I left again.
So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.
Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.
Not even the API. Just a usable page that doesn't feel so broken and bloated.
Did they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.
I'm done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.
Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.
I hate the fact that I'm only about 90% sure you're joking.
I’m not. It’s in the article.
Damn, they just can't miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?
Poe's law hits hard sometimes.
So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.
Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history
beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.
That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.
Now...
Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe
"great, I got upvoted by reddit "blue" subscribers...this is so special :/" energy
You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.
People spend real money on reddit. What a bunch of loosers.
That's what I thought when I first saw gold back in 2010...
While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.
Still doesn’t fix the ill will from when they abruptly killed Apollo, in a stupid way that screwed both users and an indie dev who actually cared and had dedicated significant effort to the platform.
Also, I absolutely cannot wait for when Reddit itself becomes meme stocked. Somehow, both GameStop and AMC are still alive, but the crazies are back, and Reddit seems like an excellent candidate.
They don't care about ill will, they care about money. They made nothing from third party apps and millions from gutting the API and selling it to AI companies.
Oh, they're being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling "gold" (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can't give is the old-style reddit "gold" (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.
It's okay, Reddit. I don't post anymore.
Deleted my 15 year old account. I'm not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.
I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.
Then I realized awards was a scam all along.
Ok, we are not coming back anyway
Meh, it's just another publicly traded company now, it's just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.
I'm happy to be here
Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now? https://www.reddit.com
Thankfully you can still access the old "new" layout at https://new.reddit.com , and of course https://old.reddit.com still exists too.
I only go there for a few communities that don't exist here, but that is where we are at, at this point.
Wow they are actually copying what digg did, and expecting a different outcome.
Edit: Changed DIGG to digg for correctness.
I went to Digg yesterday, it looks like the MSN start page full of terrible probably automatically generated articles. Shame reddit didn't have the same amount of people jump ship like when everyone left Digg 4.0.
Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. "Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they've kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years". An unnamed C staffer blurts out "I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let's just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!"
"Genius! Who would'a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!"
I hate it when I’m punished for good ideas.
Reddit sucks balls
So true.
I don't think the award system is the only place where they messed up...
"rrred-dit"... that sounds familiar... 🤔
Meh
They knew it promoted karma farming. It helps them make money so I doubt this is an "oops".
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lol
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
