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Reddit kills awards and coins
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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So, any bets on what's the next feature that's getting killed?
My money's on old.reddit.com.
Don't give them ideas.
Or do, i moved here anyway
I don't think I need to give them ideas. Seems like they've got the whole "destroy reddit" thing covered.
Certainly following in the footsteps Steve Huffman's idol, Elon Musk.
Irreversibly doing away with the old UI was what killed Digg.
In that case, we should potentially encourage reddit to get rid of it faster.
Selling the power of upvotes to advertisers killed Digg.
I'm surprised old wasn't next after third party apps. I'm surprised they decided to kill the literal "give us money" button.
I think they had some level of self awareness that it would be too much too soon to kill it with 3PA but they definitely want it gone.
That may be giving spez a bit too much credit.
I think there's some around him that temper his worst impulses
Access on Sundays and Wednesdays.
My money's on automod. It's yet another of those "pesky tools" used by the "landed gentry" against advertisement disguised as content.
I also predict that a few subreddits criticising corporations might get banned, such as r/hailcorporate and perhaps r/assholedesign.
I don't think that they'll get rid of old.reddit now because the ghost of Digg still haunts Greedy Pigboy.
I think you might be right about the removal of anti-corporate or anti-capitalist subreddits. They're not exactly suited for ad placement, so they're pretty much worthless to reddit at this point.
Seems like you could sell a whole lot of anarchy bumper stickers in those subs.
I'm honestly surprised it's lasted this long. Especially given the third party app shutoff.
As am I. I was convinced it would’ve been killed off years ago since they introduced the new ui.
That and the mobile website. They're already running an A/B test where they just flat out block mobile users and instead demand they download the app. That fucking app man... They'll try anything to push the app, anything except making it actually enjoyable to use that is.
Blocking mobile browser users will be the beginning of the end. Very few casual read-only users will download the app just to read some content on Reddit. Reddit is highly ranked in search engines and the kind of users that flock into Reddit via Google and the likes for sure make up a decent percentage (perhaps the majority?) of traffic on Reddit. I for sure hope they will enforce this policy, that will only increase Reddit's downfall.
The only way to browse Reddit, but I say let it die. Let the whole thing crash and burn.
We have mlmym.org now. Old Reddit can live on in a new life outside of its greedy creator.
Their lat shred of decency.