I use reddit, HN, and lobste.rs to give myself mental breaks throughout the coding day.
I'm subscribed to a lot of niche subreddits, but even so, the quality of reddit has dropped pretty noticeably in the last few years.
I'm sure its partly from the expanded userbase, but the site itself has actually degraded.
* You can no longer see upvotes vs downvotes.
* Comment replies are no longer automatic. Instead, the little red envelope updates its status once every ~45 minutes.
Which wouldn't be so bad, except:
* Now when messages are deleted, there's no guaranteed [deleted] message, and the message will disappear from your inbox.
* In really popular threads, some messages beneath a certain vote count appear to get automatically deleted?
* The inbox status notification is broken. I have about ~100 comment replies I've kept marked as unread in my inbox, for long term saving. Reddit used to just notify you when you received a new message, but now every once in a while, it will realize I have unread messages, and give me a "new messages" notification, despite nothing having changed.
Not to mention just how bad all the astroturfing has gotten, particularly on the default subreddits.
And that's just off the top of my head, its a shame really.
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I use reddit, HN, and lobste.rs to give myself mental breaks throughout the coding day.
I'm subscribed to a lot of niche subreddits, but even so, the quality of reddit has dropped pretty noticeably in the last few years.
I'm sure its partly from the expanded userbase, but the site itself has actually degraded.
* You can no longer see upvotes vs downvotes.
* Comment replies are no longer automatic. Instead, the little red envelope updates its status once every ~45 minutes.
Which wouldn't be so bad, except:
* Now when messages are deleted, there's no guaranteed [deleted] message, and the message will disappear from your inbox.
* In really popular threads, some messages beneath a certain vote count appear to get automatically deleted?
* The inbox status notification is broken. I have about ~100 comment replies I've kept marked as unread in my inbox, for long term saving. Reddit used to just notify you when you received a new message, but now every once in a while, it will realize I have unread messages, and give me a "new messages" notification, despite nothing having changed.
Not to mention just how bad all the astroturfing has gotten, particularly on the default subreddits.
And that's just off the top of my head, its a shame really.