Until they close it down…

  • Limeade@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I remember when new Reddit was announced and I was telling people, “let’s give it a chance, new doesn’t mean bad! The site is a little bit ugly, it could be spruced up.” Then new Reddit came out and I had to eat my hat and set my account to default to old Reddit, but it wasn’t long before I primarily used Reddit on my phone and stopped paying much attention to the site. Fortunately it wasn’t my app that they bought out and wrecked when they decided they needed their own app.

    Every now and then people start complaining about some new feature like chat or NFTs or awards and I stay blissfully unaware on RIF is fun because it’s just the bare bones posts, no weird extraneous features that nobody asked for. Have I ever received a reddit award? Heck if I know, I’m firmly in the old and curmudgeonly camp at this point and don’t care. I do wish old Reddit wasn’t fixed width so it would be easier to read on mobile, but at least I have teddit if I’m going to look at a link outside of the app.

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      1 year ago

      I was an alpha tester for new reddit before it was publicly pushed. There was a private sub for it and plenty of ppl saying everything that was bad and needed changing. Admins were very receptive to any suggestions, but slowly everyone realized they didn’t want to change anything, despite saying otherwise. The “finished” new reddit was nearly identical, and still garbage to use. I switched to old.reddit within a few days.

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        1 year ago

        Incidentally I just checked and noticed that defaulting to new reddit is still listed as a “beta” option in preferences, and is checked by default. I can only assume this is to hide the option.