• Troy
    81•1 month ago

    Or, hear me out, they went public and now they are making their product worse as enshittification takes its toll.

    • coyotino [he/him]English
      11•1 month ago

      yeah i mean i know my workarounds like old.reddit and certain third party apps that still work, but most users aren’t doing that. Everytime i accidentally end up on the default reddit experience i am amazed by how messy, ad-riddled, and annoying it is to use. If that was the only way i knew how to use the site, I would simply open the site less.

      • Troy
        2•1 month ago

        I use old.reddit in desktop mode still, on occasion. Today I clicked on a screenshot of a game cause I wanted more detail. I was directed to the new Reddit interface. I right clicked on the image and chose “open image in new tab” and got the new Reddit interface. I tried CTRL-scroll to zoom in the image, and it made the UI elements larger and in the process shrunk the image. I left the site.

  • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
    56•1 month ago

    Maybe they shouldn’t have given exclusive access to Google. Bing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results. So now Google has a monopoly on reddit results. Reddit is just learning the shitty effect of monopolies and it serves them right.

    • Corgana
      2•1 month ago

      Bing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results.

      Not accurate, actually!

      • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
        10•1 month ago

        They can still show some old results, but reddit only allows Google to crawl reddit. Part of their AI deal.

        • @jarfil@beehaw.org
          6•1 month ago

          Heh, yeah. The 2023 APIcalypse is his last post, where he got over -20k votes, even after the downvote limiters. Before that, his record was under -10k. It’s a far cry from EA’s -667k, but still.