Wow, they really spezzed up bad.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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Fuck spez and his ad infested shit hole called Reddit
That place has become a reposting bot haven. The niche market is still hanging around but the main content drivers seem to be broken or gone.
Good.
Those targets seem unrealistic even without driving off a core group of heavy users.
Spez looks like Ken trying to figure out how the human world works in "Barbie"
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I wonder how ad view counts are affected when you actively drive away your hard core content posting audience? Hmm...
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Fuck Reddit
I need to figure out the details of shorting an IPO between now and TBD 2024.
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When the point of a fun website is finally and forever lost. Welcome to the bots and ads show!
Spez can suck a sick
Haha!
I wonder if this is the motivation behind removing the auth-gate on mobile. Previously, if I browsed the mobile site on my phone in a non-signed-in state (I deleted my account), I could view 5-8 top-level comments and that's it. Clicking "Show more comments" or trying to expand child comments would show a modal asking me to sign in or download the app.
That changed last week along with a complete rework of the mobile site. I'm betting that they saw a huge increase in unauthenticated mobile users with a far below-average time-on-site metric and decided to open it up.
Overall, I appreciate the change because I still lurk in many of the niche subs that I still haven't found a good replacement for. self-hosted, datahoarder, webdev, 3dprinting, et al. have analogs here, but the content isn't as deep.