Keep making it worse, that will surely help. I have a suggestion: how about getting your stupid ban-happy admins under control?
only let logged in users use the site
traffic declines
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I don’t use reddit anymore because <obvious reasons> but sometimes a relevant thread comes up in a web search. But since they force you to log in they lost even the last bit of my traffic.
Agree “many obvious reasons”. That said I feel as though there may be some merit to the “we need a way to keep AI bots from just taking all our content and reselling it via AI”.
There are a million other reasons to stop using Reddit and I won’t be going back.
But for years they built up a ton of great user contributed content. Just like it’s unfair for art, music, other content to be absorbed / plagiarized and repackaged as AI… it is also unfair that web bots steal all the old/good Reddit content and don’t give credit + make money off content generated by old Reddit.
Note: reddit bad. Also AI plagiarism bad.
Yep, not logging in, that killed off the last bit of usage I had for reddit.
Fuck you u/spez and the bots you herd about.
So, they did everything that users said would kill the site and it… killed the site?
Good thing they already banned or drove out all the top human contributors. There’s no one left to say “I told you so.”
Idk, I think that even in late stage capitalism demanding constant “growth” when they used to be one of the most visited websites of the entire internet is just delusional.
This comment section is missing a big ol’
FUCK SPEZ
FUCK SPEZ
I gotchu fam.
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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.
this will make people less likely to click a ad-link. no wonder for the past year they have been going after OF and people who are trying to earn money by directing to thier own site. reddit wasnt getting a piece of the aciton, so they increased thier filter sensitivity every time they do a sweep.
“Wait our traffic is down? I know! Let’s give people more of what they hate!”
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Israel is doing genocide to the Palestine peoples”, boom. Banned.
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.
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 of course the question you typed 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.
I didn’t think they could make it worse… But apparently they found a way, according to the title of this story. 😄
Windows start menu search exists
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
It’s bad now that they increased the ad size in posts. Now you have to scroll more to see the first comment.
Oh Is it NNN again already?
Reddit’s gonna reddit.
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.
Same here, it’s muscle memory at this point.
People still search reddit?
Mostly through Google, which kind of proves the point.
Shithole website
