feverish and oversexed posted:

Are you okay?

ddiddles posted:

You know you can just...not do it right?

Saoshyant posted:

Yes. If you are seriously trying to bring new users into the site, at least replace the frontpage temporarily using a basic template with recent threads on the middle of the page, two icons to download the different mobile apps on the top, and a big "all this with a one time payment and no ads" button at the bottom. Basic stuff but it makes a huge difference.

Seriously. It is completely pointless to buy user recruiting ads only for people to 1) arrive, see a dead frontpage, and leave, or 2) find the forums but have them not work at all on their phones and no idea how to sort it easily

Heck, no effort mode: temporarily redirect the frontpage to the forums.

Grassy Knowles posted:

Jimmy is highly litigious can you make it Rupert Holmes’s Escape

Mega64 posted:

You know, you can just stop using the internet when you're out of stuff to read.

If I catch up on the threads I follow here and don't find any more worth following, I do something else. Works out pretty well!

Peggy Edson posted:

thanks for repeating the joke over and over, I didn't get it until the 5th one

Shredder posted:

hey buddy you wanna buy some fuckin' mangosteens or what

Nuebot posted:

One thing to keep in mind is that like on youtube and other sites, Reddit tends to use NSFW for more than porn. So removing/banning all NSFW content is basically going to obliterate a lot of LGBT content, or discussions and help for abuse and things like abortion, and other relatively sensitive topics.

Also it turns out the reddit admins didn't have to do much because a bunch of mods are already going nuts and basically trying to do ~subreddit coups~ over the blackout and get one another demodded so they can become the head mod instead. The system, it works.

Bad Purchase posted:

whoa

Tupper posted:

https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1669464567074680835

yikes

Inept posted:

hold on while I type up my 30 page treatise on internet nerds versus venture capital

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

I mean opague in the sense that the algorithm that powers things is proprietary - nobody but its engineers know how it works; any explanation that's available has been fed through a PR department, besides which it's probably not very up-to-date.

There's nothing unique to what Reddit does, Digg did it before - and I'm pretty sure there were a few other social news aggregator sites before that.
If they hadn't failed to be bought by Alphabet, and then subsequently implemented a very controversial new design, Reddit might've never taken off.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

I do feel some sympathy for people dismayed by Reddit's decline, and maybe even a little for people mourning Twiter (Twitter is so bad I struggle with sympathy for its users, though). For me, the biggest loss was when Yahoo! shut down the Yahoo News Message Boards. Like with so many other things, Yahoo! was pretty much first to implement something that later took off when done by somebody else. The News Message Boards accidentally became a huge social media site, but Yahoo! didn't know what they were doing and axed it, and know that big chunk of online history is effectively memoryholed.

Kazzah posted:

Motherfuck the haiku bot

NoiseAnnoys posted:

counter point gently caress John Oliver and his right wing marriage.

big black turnout posted:

Sophy Wackles posted:

Think about how much money Ghislaine Maxwell left on the table by not selling her account.

Slimy Hog posted:

What?

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

narwhal. as. gently caress.

Heath posted:

Is this going to be another Twitter thing where everybody hates everything that's being done with it but nobody actually stops using the site?

The Voice of Labor posted:

what happened to twitter?

smoobles posted:

I can't believe they did it. they loving killed reddit