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SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (9 children)

So, any bets on what's the next feature that's getting killed?

My money's on old.reddit.com.

[–] TheNightBird 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't give them ideas.

Or do, i moved here anyway

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I need to give them ideas. Seems like they've got the whole "destroy reddit" thing covered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Certainly following in the footsteps Steve Huffman's idol, Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Irreversibly doing away with the old UI was what killed Digg.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

In that case, we should potentially encourage reddit to get rid of it faster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Selling the power of upvotes to advertisers killed Digg.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm surprised old wasn't next after third party apps. I'm surprised they decided to kill the literal "give us money" button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they had some level of self awareness that it would be too much too soon to kill it with 3PA but they definitely want it gone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That may be giving spez a bit too much credit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think there's some around him that temper his worst impulses

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Access on Sundays and Wednesdays.

It has come to our attention they Sundays and Wednesdays aren’t always the best content days. In order to return to smarter thinkin and good design, we are discontinuing reddit’s feature known as “being accessing on Sundays and Wednesdays”.

This comes after much thought. We know some of you have gotten great value out of using Reddit on Sundays and Wednesdays, and we hope you can cherish with us the memory of those days’ access on Reddit.

But the future is progress, and the market has spoken. Despite what the market says, we are listening to management. Not to worry though. Sunday and Wednesday access will still be available until September of 2023, when we will begin a phased shutdown of two sevenths of our service.

Why are we doing this? The current move is a compromise between those who wanted Sunday removed but Wednesday to remain, and those who wanted Wednesday to be removed while Sunday remains.

For those of you who just can’t do without your Sunday or Wednesday Reddit fix, we recommend trying Reddit on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays.

We are absolutely dedicated to continuing to bringing 24/5 news, cultural, and community-driven content straight to your web browser or Official Reddit App.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My money's on automod. It's yet another of those "pesky tools" used by the "landed gentry" against advertisement disguised as content.

I also predict that a few subreddits criticising corporations might get banned, such as r/hailcorporate and perhaps r/assholedesign.

I don't think that they'll get rid of old.reddit now because the ghost of Digg still haunts Greedy Pigboy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you might be right about the removal of anti-corporate or anti-capitalist subreddits. They're not exactly suited for ad placement, so they're pretty much worthless to reddit at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seems like you could sell a whole lot of anarchy bumper stickers in those subs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised it's lasted this long. Especially given the third party app shutoff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As am I. I was convinced it would’ve been killed off years ago since they introduced the new ui.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and the mobile website. They're already running an A/B test where they just flat out block mobile users and instead demand they download the app. That fucking app man... They'll try anything to push the app, anything except making it actually enjoyable to use that is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Blocking mobile browser users will be the beginning of the end. Very few casual read-only users will download the app just to read some content on Reddit. Reddit is highly ranked in search engines and the kind of users that flock into Reddit via Google and the likes for sure make up a decent percentage (perhaps the majority?) of traffic on Reddit. I for sure hope they will enforce this policy, that will only increase Reddit's downfall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The only way to browse Reddit, but I say let it die. Let the whole thing crash and burn.

We have mlmym.org now. Old Reddit can live on in a new life outside of its greedy creator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Their lat shred of decency.