"Edit: Obligatory 'F--- Spez' for karma."

Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO::“Edit: Obligatory ‘F— Spez’ for karma.”

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    89·
    7 months ago

    Oh oh… can we look forward to another wave of reddit leavers after inevitable changes to the site to please investors?

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5817·
      7 months ago

      Anyone who didn’t leave when old.reddit.com stopped being the default isn’t going to leave over any other redesigns. They couldn’t possibly be worse.

        • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          19·
          7 months ago

          I’m kind of looking forward to that. I don’t have an account there anymore, but I still check old.reddit.com because it’s quick enough scan the homepage on my phone when I’m waiting on something. Dropping old would help me break that habit very easily.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            161·
            7 months ago

            Agreed, that band-aid needs to be ripped off, because the site is really dead anyway. (It only appears alive because of bots trolling for engagement.)

            • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              12·
              7 months ago

              It really is bad. I ask myself why I even bother every time I look at it. Looking at r/popular now feels more like what looking at r/popular/rising/ used to be, mostly reposted garbage with only the occasional interesting topic, but even those I’ve usually already seen somewhere else.

              • batmaniam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                5·
                7 months ago

                Responding to like three of your comments at once. But I used RES since like 2010. Until June I, and I imagine many others, had zero idea what “vanilla” reddit even looked like.

                But yes, I only do r/NFL because I haven’t found that in fediverse yet. When I’m there and the muscle. Memory kicks in and I click the logo and go to the home it’s… Bad…

                I’ve popped in once or twice in the niche communities I used to do. There’s activity, but it’s stuff I would have called filler posts two years ago. Not bad just… Not good.

      • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Honestly, dark theme is how they got me with that one. Haven’t used the site aside from search results since the API changes went live but I like to think I’d leave if a new redesign was worse.