Maybe Spez should charge a smol fee per search. Then another lil fee when the user clicks a result. Then he could charge a small fee per minute of reading the linked result. Spez sure is smart!
I hope Spez burns alive in a literal sense.
I’m 70 and found Reddit about 7 years ago. Was wonderful. Ended up getting banned probably for commenting on the fat stupid incompetent pedophile rapist Donald Trump. Fuck em. Time to move on.
everyone already searches reddit by adding “reddit” to a google search. putting ads in the native search kind of confirms nobody was using it
yup i do that most of the time.
People still search reddit?
Mostly through Google, which kind of proves the point.
Sounds like circling the bowl ever since investors became a thought
When blood is being squeezed from a stone, it does not feel nice to be the stone.
Shithole website
“Wait our traffic is down? I know! Let’s give people more of what they hate!”
Fuck you u/spez and the bots you herd about.
I’ve just had it with the Reddit experience, forcing an algorithm on me was the end.
It was already shit before the API exodus in June 2023 thus killing alienblue and other loved clients…
Was an OG user from inception. Haven’t been back since. Any time I want or need to view certain things (seldom) RedLib instances work well. You can always set up an rss feed from one and get chronological content if you wanted.
https://redlib.catsarch.com/ is one of many that has been stable for awhile.
Didn’t they kill RSS?
Don’t think it matters for a redlib instance. Just checked and it’s definitely still working.
Neat! How do you get an RSS feed from Redlib?
E: the instance you linked says it has RSS disabled…
redlib (while permabanned) is a bit like being kicked out of the bar and staring back in through the window. You can look, sure, but a bar is about interacting and getting drunk. You are doing neither.
That’s not the point. I nuked my would be 20+ year old account. I don’t care about interacting (with bots and lots of kids).
apparently they stop noticing after a while(assuming you arnt one of those serial evaders that uses hundreds of accounts), i tested and made one just for Niche content only.
i use the classic layout extension, to look at reddit with “old reddit esque”
Anyone actually uses Reddit search? That thing has been so horribly broken since the very beginning that some of the best subreddits (AskHistorians, for example) openly recommend using a standard search engine with the “site:reddit.com” parameter.
No, its useless, i suspect they made it that way so people would use google to search for specific reddit question, and voial the question you type in google is what pops up for the question you are looking for 90% of the time.
It’s depressingly hilarious how awful the search is. I don’t think anyone could make a worse search if they tried. Half the time it doesn’t even work for exact matches.
Back when I used to visit that site and tried the search, it was pretty much on par with Outlook’s search. You couldn’t find what you were looking for, basically.
Outlook at least works if the keyword is in the subject line. Reddit search can’t even do that.
😂 pathetic
Windows start menu search exists
I didn’t think they could make it worse… But apparently they found a way, according to the title of this story. 😄
Oh Is it NNN again already?
Reddit’s gonna reddit.
This comment section is missing a big ol’
FUCK SPEZ
FUCK SPEZ
I gotchu fam.
🫶
It seems that people running big techs are behaving in a consistently erratic way. There must be something behind it
They spend too much time with other people in big tech and lose connection with the people who are the source of their income.
all that cocaine and ketamine makes people erratic, or is an alien.
It was good. Long long ago. Entertaining. Infuriating. Educational. For the most part civil.
Now its mostly swamp. it’s the trump era turd swamp. It’s more a cesspool - swamps are great places - trumpville cesspool.
Ending anonymity is 180° out from its starting point. Taken over by corporate it’s like everything else they ‘buy’ - for their profit.
reddit was never good, it was tolerable at best. The fact that in the early days the jailbait sub was allowed to be one of the biggest on the site and was only pulled after national media attention is really all you need to know to reinforce that belief, though we could also point to so much more.
You see, I didn’t gravitate towards the jailbait side, so I probably didn’t look there for entertainment. I liked forums. Crafts. Skills based information. Funny shit. Apparently all you saw was some evil lurking internet cloud, easily duplicated here on this very lemmingo within these same cyberspace walls. And carried forward to great lengths on the evil ever present ‘dark webster’. Yet another place I have no need for or interest in. My advice if I had any would be choose better the windmills you tilt.
Steve was always going to fuck it up. I recall a incident where he thought it would be cute to directly edit a comment in the database, bypassing the indicator that a comment had been edited after the fact. He never had any kind of good sense.
Fuck reddit and fuck Steve Huffman.
he apparently idolizes Musk, so thats whats he aiming for. thats why there have been so many purges, because of musk telling spez to suppress dissent.
He’s a nazi, therefore a sociopathic parasite.
You are downvoted now for what used to be standard reddit etiquette. That site lost its entire identity. 2 days ago they rolled out age verification in some European countries. So, I naturallt redacted all my posts and comments and left.
They’ll put it back. I did that too and deleted the account, go look now and it’s all there. Oddly they left the last things which were very critical so I doubt they even looked at what was there.
How did you delete your comments? I’m thinking about doing the same.
There were scripts that would replaced the text and remove the comment, they don’t work anymore after the api fuckery.
You might be able to find one that runs in your browser but it’ll be really slow.
Never had that problem with older accounts. I guess I have to go in there to be permabanned. Shouldn’t take more than a comment or two.
Reddit is now so far away from what made it great in the beginning that it really isn’t even the same site. It just sucks now.
Agreed. It’s midwest facebook now. Corporate reddit.
its facebook 2.0, just havnt fully become its clone yet. is suspect the next step is eliminating OLD reddit with a few months for logged in users. and then require Facial recognition and valid DL too.
It’s bad now that they increased the ad size in posts. Now you have to scroll more to see the first comment.
