Reddit delivered strong earnings, but the numbers beneath the surface tell a different story. Slowing logged-in user growth and AI-powered search could threaten the platform's long-term value.
Their decision to abruptly remove third party API access is what drove me here. I wiped all my posts shortly after they started offering that stock buy in bullshit. Definitely made the right decision after seeing them become what they are now.
Same but the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was their decision to hide user history and modify the algorithm that made it hard to identify if post is real or astro turfed
I spent 5 years off Reddit and everything then tried to come back like a year ago. I found that even if someone hides their history since Reddit is selling all it’s users out all you had to do was go to a search engine and type “reddit /u/theirusername” and you’d find loads of things.
Eventually I realized instead of spending my time researching assholes so I could comment linking all their posts where they made contradicting claims to be a doctor, historian, velociraptor tamer, gay black woman, transgender Danish leprechaun, 15 years old, 40, and retired so I could point out their bullshit and win at the internet… maybe I’d be happier just going somewhere with a smaller shit pile.
I tried using ublock origin’s element picker to hide it but scrolling is still disabled. Since the api thing I’ve only used Reddit from Google, not logged in, and redirected to old. So with their updates the last few weeks there’s literally no option for me here, I’m simply 100% done with reddit.
My huge comment started as a reply to you on all the dumb shit Reddit’s done to fuck it’s users over lately. Thanks for making an old man want to yell at the cloud. :D
The nail in the coffin for me was the mobile site becoming completely unusable. That pop-up completely disables scrolling and swiping to go back.
Their decision to abruptly remove third party API access is what drove me here. I wiped all my posts shortly after they started offering that stock buy in bullshit. Definitely made the right decision after seeing them become what they are now.
Same but the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was their decision to hide user history and modify the algorithm that made it hard to identify if post is real or astro turfed
I spent 5 years off Reddit and everything then tried to come back like a year ago. I found that even if someone hides their history since Reddit is selling all it’s users out all you had to do was go to a search engine and type “reddit /u/theirusername” and you’d find loads of things.
Eventually I realized instead of spending my time researching assholes so I could comment linking all their posts where they made contradicting claims to be a doctor, historian, velociraptor tamer, gay black woman, transgender Danish leprechaun, 15 years old, 40, and retired so I could point out their bullshit and win at the internet… maybe I’d be happier just going somewhere with a smaller shit pile.
same experience here
I tried using ublock origin’s element picker to hide it but scrolling is still disabled. Since the api thing I’ve only used Reddit from Google, not logged in, and redirected to old. So with their updates the last few weeks there’s literally no option for me here, I’m simply 100% done with reddit.
If you ever need to view something, just put word “safe” in front of reddit.com
Kind of like you can put “cancel” after x in x.com
Putting it here, because there might be need to see some post, but don’t want anyone to create an account.
Can you ctrl-A ctrl-C in the page?
Oh wow, so they don’t even have button to hide this pop-up?
My huge comment started as a reply to you on all the dumb shit Reddit’s done to fuck it’s users over lately. Thanks for making an old man want to yell at the cloud. :D
FYI you can browse in private mode to get around that
Wow, no kidding. I just tried it out. I’ve just been using it for porn.