Thats whats making them different and keeping them alive, but whats killing them and will eventually is their formatting and ads.
When it was getting popular you'd have a good 100 lines of actual readable text on a screen, with 15 maybe 20 links on the homepage. The content, the draw, was there. Now with their own redesigns, there are ads injected everywhere on the site. On the mobile apps you get 1 ad per 2 thread links.
How can you make the experience 5x worse from when it started and not eventually lose users? Its the equivilent of the makers of a snack food slowly replacing their recipe with filler. One day people will wake up and go, wait this is actually terrible!
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Thats whats making them different and keeping them alive, but whats killing them and will eventually is their formatting and ads.
When it was getting popular you'd have a good 100 lines of actual readable text on a screen, with 15 maybe 20 links on the homepage. The content, the draw, was there. Now with their own redesigns, there are ads injected everywhere on the site. On the mobile apps you get 1 ad per 2 thread links.
How can you make the experience 5x worse from when it started and not eventually lose users? Its the equivilent of the makers of a snack food slowly replacing their recipe with filler. One day people will wake up and go, wait this is actually terrible!