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      Unfortunately there’s still a lot of good, helpful documentation on Reddit that I wish was somewhere else. Even if I deleted my account last year I still have to rely on some Reddit posts to find solutions to certain problems.

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        Yep, unfortunately I still have to go to r/television on reddit to find good recommendations because the television community here is dead.

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        This is only half serious, but reddit is usually part of LLM training Sets, so you could try your luck with ChatGPT et al.

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      I use Libredirect extension on Firefox with Redlib instances turned on. When a post doesn’t load, I switch instances. It works like 95% of the time. Enough for me to not visit reddit ever again.

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      I just read something about them trying to paywall some subs. That would not be a step, bit be a giant leap for a lot of people to abandon that shit hole.

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    “There are no plans to get rid of Old Reddit.” - reddit

    Completely expected this, technically they are not removing it, just making it so shit no one would use it. Same move done by twitter when muskrat took over

    The redesign doesn’t really work, it just tells you to use their horrendous app or login to see any “unverified” content. What that is only they seem to know…

    Anyone still relying on reddit’s user generated data should use something like a redlib instance

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      “There are no plans to get rid of old reddit…”

      Makes old reddit more and more user unfriendly…

      “User numbers for old reddit have steadily dropped, they prefer our app or the new reddit site, so we no longer see it worthwhile to maintain old reddit. We’re shutting it down.”

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    Imma be honest, the only thing I use reddit for is the porn. Things are starting to pick up over here a bit, but for a while it was almost nothing.

    Basically what I’m saying is that I don’t really care what happens to Reddit anymore. I left with the exodus about a year ago and never looked back (except for the porn).

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      Unfortunately that “picking up” here looks to mostly be a bot that is grabbing reddit posts so it’s still mostly reddit. There really aren’t that many people on Lemmy so I wouldn’t expect to see much of that stuff made specifically to post here.

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        I believe it will happen. In only 1 year, this place went from ghost town to 30+ comments on most posts. Give it a few more years of people spreading the word and reddit continuing to make people go elsewhere, and it will almost be the same.

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        I have that bot blocked. Those posts have little value here since no one seems to comment on them.

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      Yeah, old.reddit is good for porn. Otherwise new reddit wants you to use the app and login for porn. That’s weird as fuck. Don’t track what I’m baitin’ to.

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      I’m curious, never used reddit for porn. Why would you use it for porn? Just go on other websites dedicated to porn.

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        There’s a lot more amateur content. Places like r/gonewild have a massive amount of daily posts. Plus there’s a subreddit for pretty much every fetish you could have with communities built around them. It’s an entirely different vibe than just going to Pornhub and picking videos. And if you’re into things that are drawn, reddit is overflowing with that kind of content.

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      I use it for r/sysadmin and niche/hobby stuff still but am pretty happy that the fediverse is here: It’s only going to get better as time goes on at this point.

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    Colour me surprised

    Every time i accidentally enter new.reddit i revolt with how awful the UI is

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      You ever feel like that’s a personal limitation? I start feeling a bit like a boomer when I get a strong urge to resist change

      That said, fuck Reddit’s admin team/corporate leaders

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        Personal limitation? I mean, the UI is worse. Bloated, confusing, and doesn’t look any better. It has extra ads that look both like posts and comments. Fuck that.

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          Beyond that, it also just runs way worse; new.reddit takes at least twice as long to load a page than old.reddit. And when your entire business model is based on exploiting my stunted attention span to trick me into reading advertisements, you can’t give me that extra two and a half seconds to realize maybe I don’t give a shit about half the garbage I just mindlessly scrolled through, or else I’m gonna just go, like, fly a kite or something. And I don’t wanna do that, where do you even get a kite?

          And hell, it’s entirely possible this rate limit isn’t just restricted to old.reddit, but nobody’s noticed yet because new.reddit is too slow to make 100 requests in a measly 10 minutes.

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          Why won’t you do your part to maximize shareholder value?

          Stop limiting your potential…

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          I don’t think you understood my comment. Sorry I wasn’t clearer

          I wasn’t referencing the UI at all. I was specifically referring to the feeling of revulsion. I personally get that feeling whenever windows rolls out something new

          I’m definitely not shilling for the new UI or all the fuckin ads, that’s for sure. lol

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        Change is only good if it’s an improvement. New Reddit is objectively a worse experience than old Reddit. At least as far as I can tell in the brief times I’ve tried powering through just looking at it when I get there from google or something. There’s a longer delay opening shit (or at least more noticeable because it has a stupid spinning reddit logo instead of blank space or whatever old reddit does), comments are less densely packed. It inserts recommendations to other posts within the comments of the one you’re currently looking at. It’s just terrible.

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        It’s worst when I feel the UI has been engineered to make it harder finding the information I am looking for and/or make it slower.

        I joke that I’m actively turning boomer in my ripe ol’ age of mid 20’s…

        And if that means I’ll be kicking and screaming down the road of enshittification of the internet then so be it

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          No, I agree the enshitifcation is real. I guess part of that is it makes me feel crazy enough to doubt myself

          It’s like, I know the internet was for sure better before, but you know what if maybe the 10,000th seemingly unnecessary change that YouTube makes that piss me off is actually a pretty ok or even great thing and I’m all against it like boomers were with computers or how they are now with clean energy or how they are with whatever they’re cranky about any given day?

          I guess keeping in mind their goal is to squeeze us dry and profit til infinity, it’s clear these apps will just get as shitty as we’ll put up with

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        For me it’s not so much that as it is the old layout being easier to work with when mostly browsing text-only subreddits. I think Reddit should be more appreciative of the things that made Reddit this big in the first place, including the design of the site at the time. It’s very much an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” scenario

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    I remember a while back Reddit removed comments about Lemmy. Like if a subreddit recommended migrating to Lemmy, it would suddenly disappear.

    Still happening or nah?

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    I’ve run into this already multiple times. It’s why I finally made the jump over here. I don’t use new Reddit and won’t. The enshitifcation of Reddit has really ramped up.

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    Drive your users away. It’s a great idea.

    They don’t give a fuck about the site longterm. They got their IPO. Now they’re after monetization at all costs to justify it to the shareholders. That the site goes to shit and falls apart in the long run is not their concern.

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    They cannot make me download their shit app, and when old.reddit dies then that’s when I stop going even my current once a month.

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    I wonder how long before they remove the commenting feature, like Digg did.

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      They might as well at this point. Look at the top comments in any of the main subs these days, they’re all LLM posts. Just bots having conversations with each other. Half of them you can tell because the bot author used a very minimal prompt so they’re all formatted like every basic ChatGPT response.

      And those are just from the ones I can recognize from playing around a bunch with GPT. Gotta wonder how many are going completely undetected. The default subs have been absolutely ruined with bots.

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    like for xitter they’re so obsessed in blocking scrapers that they’re blocking also many users

    To think how many free content i gave to them 🤮 (now deleted)

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      to my knowledge this limit existed already for a long time. it’s intented to prevent scraping and automatic bots. They basically want prevent people from using bots who act as a browser instead of using their API (where they can limit them) to do stuff on reddit.

      They also have a automatic system detecting when too many clients access them with similar or “odd” characteristics (weird useragents, referers, amount of requests, weird headers in the request etc.) - if they detect such a case they usually limit you and then completly block you for hours, days or months. I couldn’t open reddit on my chrome app anymore because that as an example (i was developing an reddit client and they detected my useragent browser name as “too old”… so they just banned my browser while others worked fine )