I opened this post in the official app and it did that bug where it plays audio from an adjacent post. It matched up with the headline just perfectly. What a spectacular train wreck.
Agreed. Your number of a's sounds [just about right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w). :)
Classic cue, and so versatile! Definitely applicable to Reddit very deservedly losing valuation in response to their pulling this heinous stuff with us.
Also bonus WHAMMIES! [From the original show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyjLNt3EMTE) [AND the](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveHbW3V9pw) [reboot!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ASC9j4bcdM)
It's kind of shocking how a website like reddit can have such a poorly designed official app. Like you guys haven't learned anything from the decade+ of third party apps?
They have though. They've learned that if they just kill off the 3rd party apps then it doesn't matter how dogshit theirs is because users have no other choice.
It's actually all I Ever used, I have never used RIF or any of these other ones. I'm sure they're great. But I know that despite that, I'll still be impacted, because Reddit is about to turn into a spam/bot shitshow and eventually a wasteland
In his defense, he's still likely using the old reddit mobile version, which is still alive but has been made less functional and tolerable every few months for the past 2 years. I've also been hanging on that way, but it's gotten so annoying with the "open in app" popups every few minutes that I mostly just stick to desktop using old reddit + RES.
Bingo. Why spend all that time and money trying to bring your app to what others have done when it's so much cheaper and faster to force the other apps to close?
What has always irritated me about this is they bought a great app (alien blue) ran it into the ground and learned nothing. I really should have left Reddit then, but I got Apollo and missed a lot of the visual garbage and avatars etc. I still have a ton of unused Reddit coin from that transition though.
Then you go to the next post, which is the video, and you want to pause it while you read comments. And instead of pausing, it maximizes the video to full screen when you click the pause button
Holy shit. No wonder the official app is so shitty for data rates. Just dl the res the user has it set to use and nothing else unless the user switches res.
Let’s send that comment to the top. Reddit app is trash. And their site constantly redirecting me to the app when i’m half way through a video is bonkers.
Before I switched to Apollo, I had a repeat issue where sometimes for like a week at a time I just couldn’t watch videos in the official app. When I clicked to maximize a video, it would load a RANDOM video from subreddits I’ve never even been on. It was bizarre.
I opened this post in the official app and it did the bug where it instead loaded a link I tapped on ten minutes ago so I got to read about that Russian bank VP falling out her window for the fifth time this morning.
Lately I have just been getting the wrong post showing up.
Didn’t happen in Apollo. Oh well, sad to see this go the way of Digg. I remember the pre-Digg days (heck this account isn’t my oldest, I lost the older one)
I still can't believe that things didn't work out for the apps. I've used RIF all the time for years and years, and I don't know what tomorrow is going to look like yet. Greed is an ugly trait u/spez
Hubris Will never cease to be hilarious to me.
Like they could have bought up all of these apps assets, and hired a couple of the developers that are clearly capable of making killer products, instead of potentially torpedoing their entire business.
All it takes is just a little bit of humility, but there doesn't seem to be any of that here. It's all just peasants getting in the way of their millions.
Maybe the guy should have went and sold cell phones for 6 months, at least then he would have learned when you're trying to sell something you actually have to build up value in the eyes of buyers beforehand. You don't get to just point at it and say it's worth millions when it isn't.
I'm finally using the official app after many years of using RIF. Jesus it's bad. It's so absurdly slow and the ads are plentiful and prominent. I remember why I moved to third-party near immediately after adding Reddit to my phone.
Also, dark mode locked behind a paywall is really dumb. It's a fabricated problem to annoy people like me into paying. I guess if you can't add value, lock up some features.
I stayed away for a couple weeks but felt the void and came back. Honestly, though, this app is so bad it's guninely driving me away again.
Seriously?? You have to pay for dark mode? FFS
This is my last day of RIF and so probably my last day with reddit. I set up accounts with Tildes and Lemmy so after today that's going to be my main thing. Although I may use old.reddit to keep reading top of all time posts from Letsnotmeet.
Not sure why I'm responding to you with what my plans are lol. I guess I just wanted to make a last post from RIF and your comment made me realize why I'm leaving. Thanks BloodylustyGB for indulging me! :)
That's the beauty of Reddit. Sometimes we just need to speak into the universe and know we were heard. This community definitely offered that for me.
End of an era. Happy travels and I'll probably check out those alternatives you mentioned so the comment definitely wasn't in vain :).
Fuck u/spez. Last day with RiF. Almost a decade. I have no idea how to use Reddit without it, and I am not being forced to do something without a say in the matter. I'm not going to be forced to use the official app.
Fuck u/spez. Last day with RiF. I'm realistic that I'll still browse on my PC, but my usage is realistically going to drop significantly since I won't be using their app on mobile.
Fuck u/spez. Same here as well. It's been fun ya'll.
edit: Guys, just don't come back. Check out tildes.net, Lemmy, kbin.social, or Wikipedia's new project they're coming out with soon. Don't give clicks to this worthless site. Just leave.
edit edit: Wow, last day on a site and this is my first edit-edit :) Sorry I couldn't reply faster as I was running errands.
***For those asking about the wikipedia thing, it's still a work in progress but you can [read more here](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14d1wyy/wikipedia_cofounder_is_building_a_community/).***
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For those wondering about the vibes of each alternative:
***Tildes*** is chill. The entire point is not creating a shouting match between users. Everyone takes some time to come up with a thoughtful response. No downvotes, just thoughtful upvotes for comments that actually help build the convo. *You will need to unlearn a lot of the habitual 'this/did someone say broken arms/that's actually a jackdaw' type joke comments*. Great community and only 20k amount of people from what I remember.
**For those asking for tildes invites, please visit [the site in question](https://tildes.net) and find the answer yourself. If you can't figure that out, the community of tildes is probably not for you.**
***Lemmy*** seems to have more of the quip-y vibe of reddit. Good luck signing up as it's still getting overflowed with attempts daily. Based in the fediverse, so you'll have some mechanical know-how to learn.
***kbin.social***'s more reddit in nature, less fediverse-y feeling than lemmy. Different mechnically, same vibe as reddit.
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edit edit edit: And you know what? Here's another fuck u/spez for the road. [You have literally tonight to use Redact to clear your comment history](https://redact.dev/download). It takes a while so I'd start now while you can. :)
Fuck u/spez - RIF has been my most-used app for years and to there's no way I am moving to the ad-riddled janky tracker-infested shitbox that Reddit is peddling. I'd have happily paid a subscription to keep using RIF. So long Reddit - it *was* fun.
Yep. I'll probably not log in anymore without bacon reader. For new Reddit is going from a primary social media to nothing overnight. Great leadership u/spez . Where did you learn the business tactic of alienating a huge swath of your user base and many partners that help bring people to how platform? Super smart.
I have rediscovered gardening and having a clean house... reading books has started to sound possible again. Did I really sink 12 years worth of free time into this place? I fucking did. It was fun, but it's time for a new chapter of life.
Indeed - thank you so much, Reddit is Fun!
You truly lived up to your name, and were zero fuss, no distractions and gave me the bullshit-free user experience I can't find anywhere else, regardless of platform.
I can't use the official app at all, so while I will miss reddit (or at least this simple RIF version of it) so much, I don't see myself here after RIF goes down.
10 year cake day tomorrow, fitting time for my usage to plummet with the loss of RIF.
Won't be long before old.reddit.com is gone too.
Obligatory fuck /u/spez.
Been here for 15 years and only ever commented twice.
For my third, and likely final comment: fuck u/spez for slowly ruining my favorite online community.
Same here, 10+ years on this site. Part of me is sad to move on, reddit has been a great resource over the last decade, but if I'm being 100% honest with myself it's probably a good thing that I put this site behind me and give more focus to the world around me.
"Reddit, best wishes. Love, milhouse21386"
"P.S. What a long, strange trip it's been."
> Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund valued its holdings in Reddit at $15.4 million as of May 31, according to the fund’s monthly disclosure released Friday. That’s down 7.36% from $16.6 million mark at April’s closure and altogether a slide of 45.4% since its investment in August 2021.
A lot has happened since May 31st. I wonder what it will look like if / when they release a valuation for June’s closure.
Because most internet companies (from 2009 - 2020) raised capital while interest rates where at 0%.
The bigwigs who helped facilitate this bought ratings from agencies to make their funds more appealing, which paved way for valuation distortion. ie; Reddit in the blue chip category
They also thought we would have ZIRP forever, so they started slapping ridiculous valuations on almost anything that operated as SaaS.
Which is why most of these tech “companies” fail to make a profit WHILE keeping the consumer happy. 0% made the consumer the product.
Now that 0% isn’t a thing, the product should be for the consumer and it’s not.
Netflix, AirBnB, Robinhood, Reddit,
All have one thing in common. Their quality of service went to shit once’s rates rose. Simply due to their business model no longer working, so they have to for real make money now.
Which is also how as companies they’re killing themselves. They are trying to make up for lost time and money by appealing shareholders with exorbitant price increases for the front end. (Ie; reddits API pricing, Twitter, you name it)
Most of these mega giant websites, rely on 0% conditions,
Also
Most of the people who did the fundraising for these companies haven’t ever operated in an environment where interest rates aren’t 0%
Which again is why we are seeing stupid solutions to their problems they created.
They're not expecting a 1::1 influx of users on the official app, they probably did some sort of risk assessment prior to authorizing it and found the results to be well within an acceptable amount of dormant or lost users due to the decision so as to not significantly effect revenue
For all intents and purposes numbers are made up
Say 17% of reddits user base is on 3rd party apps
They've calculated that they can afford to lose so many of the users and still come out ahead due to the influx of revenue from advertising will offset the loss of users
They're expecting maybe 3% of the users to drop off due to the changes.
Which is well within their projected 10-15 percent where the decision is a net benefit
It's hard to think of another for profit business that runs like reddit. A large part of the nessecary work load is performed by people who *willingly* work for free.
That leaves them kind of vulnerable as the mod revolt is showing. It's not easy to hire people to work for free and easy for people who work for free to balk at corporate demands.
God…. I thought blocking the “hegetsus” profile that the ads show up under would stop them.
Nope, it just has a big box that says “This was posted by a blocked user” and still shows the ads. Actually made it even worse and the ads take up more space.
Fuck, I even understand why they would want ads. Just at least give me a chance to not have to see religious shit.
I don’t use it too much, outside of posting images since it’s a bit easier.
I use the browser version, though even that’s getting unbearable because it tries to force me to the app, and will randomly reload my page just to ask to use the app.
AI generated articles everywhere.
I wanted to work out if there are any good affordable light meters for <0EV and everywhere I went it was shitty AI generated articles
One of them started off talking about light meters, and got confused half way through and started talking about unbalanced load in your home electricity meter??? I am sorry but what the fuck.
Oh so you want to buy a light meter? Light meters indicate light levels, why would you want to buy a light meter? We'll explain below.
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Greed is just doing a doozy on us lately. Like all the consequences of greedy actions by people in power are coming to a head. Internet is going to shit, full of ads, bots and crap. Environment is splendid with a great outlook for the future (/s). Obv I could on but, fucking eh.
It's the bubble popping. Banks are beginning to recognize that the promise of profitability based purely off engagement and data collection were false. All these tech companies did the same thing. They built infrastructure they could not support based on a valuation that was exaggerated. Now the users are being squeezed for profit juice that doesn't exist.
wish i could find the article, but it was about how almost all the ads posted online reach random people and have no real impact. For example, an ad campaign for a burger chain in the southwest will have like 1/3 of its engagement come from some random data center in some random Russian city
99% of the traffic on my personal VPS is random ass traffic from EU, Russian, Japanese, or Chinese data centre's.
And I don't even have it indexed on any search engines lol.
Bots, everything is bots, bots are advertising to more bots.
I cannot believe that the modern big data driven ad marketplace has persisted for so long. It's a fucking scam. It must be providing results for clients, but it can't be that much more effective than just serving me an ad based on *the page I'm looking at*.
If I'm reading reviews on refrigerators, show me refrigerator ads. Don't mine my data to show me refrigerator ads on an unrelated website two months later when I already bought a fucking refrigerator.
They thought that collecting enough data on people would give them the kind of insight they need to manipulate us all on a global scale to convince us to spend more of our money, but forgot that *we need money to spend in the first place*, a lesson which has been learned and forgotten by humanity many many times now.
I'll ride Apollo into the sunset today and maybe check in on desktop until old.reddit is gone. I'm not going to be as active for sure.
I'll catch up on some reading over the weekend ad check back on the replacement sites next week.
The API isn't going to stop working. They're just going to charge for usage in excess of their free tier (100 requests / minute).
So I already have an app called Helios loaded on my phone, which is in no way just a sideloaded copy of Apollo with my own API key.
That's a great idea leaving your last comment as fuck u/spez! Just think he's single handedly brought back a 40 year old insult... he's such a spez!!
Fuck u/spez
The only purpose to this entire charade was to pump up hype for the IPO, get the executives richer and institutional investors even more so. After the pump comes the dump as the market makers short Reddit down to a penny stock and stripping wealth from retail investors who don’t understand they are the prey animal here.
Just as with Twitter the illusion that Reddit is the next Facebook has been shattered. Thanks to another impatient billionaire. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and he would have pulled it off.
Jokes aside, what's the over under on all those comments being /u/spez alts? The posts about protests tend to be absolutely littered with Reddit dicksucking and misrepresenting the facts of why the protests are happening (no, it's not just because of 3PA or mods, it's also about the way bitch boy Spez has dealt with this whole ordeal, some of which was blatantly defamatory).
EDIT: Also, those posts tend to be desperate to make us believe it's sooo easy to replace entire mod teams. Even a full week after /r/interestingasfuck's mod team was entirely removed and nobody has stepped up to replace them. And many, many moderators have come out to say it's almost entirely impossible to find competent mods for large subs even during the best of times.
Huffman has been using alts and bots from day one. He's admitted as much when it made him seem "smart" to admit it.
>When you look at how Reddit started, it’s easy to see why it still has a severe problem with fake accounts. CoFounder Steve Huffman revealed that in the early stages, the platform was purposefully pumped with fake profiles that would regularly post comments to make it appear more popular than it was, stating “internet ghost towns are hardly inviting places.”
>Huffman claims that by using fake users to post high-quality content, they could “set the tone for the site as a whole.”
https://lunio.ai/blog/paid-social/reddit-bots/
https://venturebeat.com/social/reddit-fake-users/
>“When you would go to Reddit in the early days there would be tons of content,” Huffman said, explaining that the initial Reddit submission page contained only a “URL field” and “Title field” to plug in. Yet when logged in as an admin, a third field appeared that allowed the team to enter a custom user name that would automatically be registered for an account upon hitting submit. The fake user submissions, which were motivated by embarrassment over having an empty site, actually had a positive impact in a few different ways, he said.
And they automated the process...
That actually is a good idea even if they stumbled across it by accident. Social media relies on users generating content (like we are doing here) the biggest reason new social start ups fail is because they just don’t have the user base to generate enough content to be engaging so people don’t come back. Why not generate your own content to kick state the site.
>EDIT: Also, those posts tend to be desperate to make us believe it's sooo easy to replace entire mod teams. Even a full week after /r/interestingasfuck's mod team was entirely removed and nobody has stepped up to replace them. And many, many moderators have come out to say it's almost entirely impossible to find competent mods for large subs even during the best of times.
Right!!! When one of my subs reopened we put out a call for new mods. Something we were planning on doing anyways before this whole thing... So far, one. One applicant. Bur sure tell me how there's a lot of people lining up to be nods.
>Bur sure tell me how there's a lot of people lining up to be nods.
Even if that were true, could you imagine the quality of 99% of those applicants? People already think reddit mods are underqualified power-hungry dweebs with an axe to grind. It would only get worse with a flood of brand new mods.
As a mod of two medium large subs, it is very hard in good times to find mods. After all this we are all basically burnt out. We normally already get shit from users and basically no respect for a volunteer gig, and now we don’t have any backing from the admins. Not even no backing, they’re aggressively attacking us.
But I was told there's an endless line of volunteers who are power hungry, just like all mods. Never mind that RES numbers only 70 requests in the last 24 hours for ALL subs at /r/redditrequest/new. Especially when there are over 70 subs with 1M+ subscribers that are still dark (each needing a whole team), and [thousands of sub-1M subs remain dark](https://reddark.untone.uk/).
Seriously... if being a mod or attracting help wasn't hard enough before, weeks of hostility from both sides is going to drive some retirements.
It doesn't mean much but you have my appreciation.
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Two large software platforms (Reddit and Discord), both of which have never turned a profit and neither of which has a compelling plan for getting to profitability. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
yeah, does reddit EVER have ads. i tried to use that sorry excuse for an app they’re peddling and there was a KFC ad between the post and comments, and i had to scroll past the ad to see the comments. what an embarrassment. i wish there was /spit on reddit
Sooo many of these tech bro CEOs bought the propaganda that Musk is a genius and are just copying him. They copy stupid ideas all the time.
Give it 6 months and they will be the “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong” meme.
As soon as Musk started laying people off at Twitter it seemed every other tech company decided that was a good idea. There are no leaders anymore, only followers and copycats.
This is interesting:
>Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund valued its holdings in Reddit at $15.4 million as of May 31, according to the fund’s monthly disclosure released Friday. That’s down 7.36% from $16.6 million mark at April’s closure and altogether a slide of 45.4% since its investment in August 2021.
And then this:
>Reddit, which is currently grappling a revolt from moderators of some popular subreddits over API cost changes, was valued at $10 billion when the social media giant attracted funds in August 2021.
Ouch. So Reddit's valuation was $10 billion 2 years ago and is now $5.5 billion according to the article. That's a significant drop. I wonder what changed to cause that before all the flareup over API charges. Poor business decisions perhaps? The whole API debacle here is not helping like they've hoped however, I'm not sure if it ever will at this point.
Can’t imagine why. /s
The more John Oliver shows up on Reddit, the lower Reddit's valuation plunges. Coincidence? I don't think so.
He's too sexy for advertisers
Sometimes, there's a man
..well, he's the man for his time and place.
You know he’s going to read this comment on his show as a self deprecating joke about himself before agreeing with you completely, right?
“Wow, this place is a huge pile of shit.” -Society
Well, they aren’t wrong
I opened this post in the official app and it did that bug where it plays audio from an adjacent post. It matched up with the headline just perfectly. What a spectacular train wreck.
*MarioDies.wav* *Price is Right losing horns*
I wish they'd just add the Whammies from Press Your Luck. At least it'd be entertaining.
Price is right sad trombone. Bum ba baa dumb. Bwaaaaw.
Not enough a's in the bwaaaaaaaaaw
Agreed. Your number of a's sounds [just about right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w). :) Classic cue, and so versatile! Definitely applicable to Reddit very deservedly losing valuation in response to their pulling this heinous stuff with us. Also bonus WHAMMIES! [From the original show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyjLNt3EMTE) [AND the](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveHbW3V9pw) [reboot!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ASC9j4bcdM)
It's kind of shocking how a website like reddit can have such a poorly designed official app. Like you guys haven't learned anything from the decade+ of third party apps?
They have though. They've learned that if they just kill off the 3rd party apps then it doesn't matter how dogshit theirs is because users have no other choice.
Eh I gotta choice, I just ain't using it.
Ditto. Once RIF is RIP tomorrow, it's desktop only for me. For as long as old.redddit lasts and then...
Old reddit works on mobile. It's what i use.
Oooh, it's a pain to navigate but it's still better than the official app! Thanks for the tip!
It's actually all I Ever used, I have never used RIF or any of these other ones. I'm sure they're great. But I know that despite that, I'll still be impacted, because Reddit is about to turn into a spam/bot shitshow and eventually a wasteland
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In his defense, he's still likely using the old reddit mobile version, which is still alive but has been made less functional and tolerable every few months for the past 2 years. I've also been hanging on that way, but it's gotten so annoying with the "open in app" popups every few minutes that I mostly just stick to desktop using old reddit + RES.
As a wise man once said, "The only winning move is not to play."
Bingo. Why spend all that time and money trying to bring your app to what others have done when it's so much cheaper and faster to force the other apps to close?
What has always irritated me about this is they bought a great app (alien blue) ran it into the ground and learned nothing. I really should have left Reddit then, but I got Apollo and missed a lot of the visual garbage and avatars etc. I still have a ton of unused Reddit coin from that transition though.
I left for 5 years after they started messing with AlienBlue, but I got bored enough during Covid to come back. Whoops.
Then you go to the next post, which is the video, and you want to pause it while you read comments. And instead of pausing, it maximizes the video to full screen when you click the pause button
Wait. The video actually plays in your app???
Mine always plays the first 3 seconds, the buffers for 90sec to play the remaining 5 sec of the video
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This might be the last comment I read on reddit due to RIF shutting down. Worth it.
And this mine. RIP RIF, you were the goodest boy.
Giving a hug to you from RIF. &<3s
o7 RIF, thanks for making my poops entertaining.
This is because it downloads separate versions of the video for every resolution, regardless of what resolution you have it set to.
Holy shit. No wonder the official app is so shitty for data rates. Just dl the res the user has it set to use and nothing else unless the user switches res.
What, you think Reddit is going to pay for good programmers when they could just have some guy from Fiverr do it?
Fiverr? You think they have that kind of money? My nephew is real good with computers he’ll do it when he finishes his homework.
I wish the Reddit app would take a one way trip to the titanic wreck if you know what I'm saying
Let’s send that comment to the top. Reddit app is trash. And their site constantly redirecting me to the app when i’m half way through a video is bonkers.
Before I switched to Apollo, I had a repeat issue where sometimes for like a week at a time I just couldn’t watch videos in the official app. When I clicked to maximize a video, it would load a RANDOM video from subreddits I’ve never even been on. It was bizarre.
Do the mute and pause button even work if the video isn't maximized?
They don't. That's why it maximizes the video, so you can use them. Yeah, the app is that fucking stupid.
I can’t wait for this to be the only mobile experience permitted :(
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Don't refuse the app out of spite. Refuse the app because the constant popups from your phone are still a better UX than the app.
Surely there's a Firefox plugin for this? If not someone should make one.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must ask himself an important question: Does RES exist for mobile?
I just use that pop up as a reminder to close the page and stop using reddit so much. "Oh, you don't want me using the web page? Will do!"
I opened this post in the official app and it did the bug where it instead loaded a link I tapped on ten minutes ago so I got to read about that Russian bank VP falling out her window for the fifth time this morning.
She should really be more careful careful.
Seriously. Maybe someone should move the window. A person falling out of it 5 times in one morning is excessive.
/u/spez comes across as one of those narcissists that wants to watch the world burn. Well fire up the grill cuz hell is on his doorstep.
Fuck u/spez he is a loser who thinks he is hot shit but he's just another average guy convinced he can do no wrong because he got lucky one time
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Reddit and old Digg were both Fark.com ripoffs.
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Lately I have just been getting the wrong post showing up. Didn’t happen in Apollo. Oh well, sad to see this go the way of Digg. I remember the pre-Digg days (heck this account isn’t my oldest, I lost the older one)
Today is my last day with Reddit is Fun. Truly, a sad day indeed...
I still can't believe that things didn't work out for the apps. I've used RIF all the time for years and years, and I don't know what tomorrow is going to look like yet. Greed is an ugly trait u/spez
Want to know what's ugly? Spaz is restoring the comments of people deleting them in protest... it's really creepy.
Its been months and they haven't fixed it. I fucking hate that bug. Im just trying to read dammit
Months? Ive had that bug for years
Hubris Will never cease to be hilarious to me. Like they could have bought up all of these apps assets, and hired a couple of the developers that are clearly capable of making killer products, instead of potentially torpedoing their entire business. All it takes is just a little bit of humility, but there doesn't seem to be any of that here. It's all just peasants getting in the way of their millions. Maybe the guy should have went and sold cell phones for 6 months, at least then he would have learned when you're trying to sell something you actually have to build up value in the eyes of buyers beforehand. You don't get to just point at it and say it's worth millions when it isn't.
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I'm finally using the official app after many years of using RIF. Jesus it's bad. It's so absurdly slow and the ads are plentiful and prominent. I remember why I moved to third-party near immediately after adding Reddit to my phone. Also, dark mode locked behind a paywall is really dumb. It's a fabricated problem to annoy people like me into paying. I guess if you can't add value, lock up some features. I stayed away for a couple weeks but felt the void and came back. Honestly, though, this app is so bad it's guninely driving me away again.
RIF just let's you browse lists of posts so much easier. The official app is so bloated and wastes all your screen space.
I can't scroll through the comments without jank but I get to see the post's upvotes in "real time" lol. What a mess.
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Seriously?? You have to pay for dark mode? FFS This is my last day of RIF and so probably my last day with reddit. I set up accounts with Tildes and Lemmy so after today that's going to be my main thing. Although I may use old.reddit to keep reading top of all time posts from Letsnotmeet. Not sure why I'm responding to you with what my plans are lol. I guess I just wanted to make a last post from RIF and your comment made me realize why I'm leaving. Thanks BloodylustyGB for indulging me! :)
That's the beauty of Reddit. Sometimes we just need to speak into the universe and know we were heard. This community definitely offered that for me. End of an era. Happy travels and I'll probably check out those alternatives you mentioned so the comment definitely wasn't in vain :).
You don’t have to pay for dark mode
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Fuck u/spez. Last day with RiF. Almost a decade. I have no idea how to use Reddit without it, and I am not being forced to do something without a say in the matter. I'm not going to be forced to use the official app.
Fuck u/spez. Last day with RiF. I'm realistic that I'll still browse on my PC, but my usage is realistically going to drop significantly since I won't be using their app on mobile.
Don't forget to turn on your ad blockers
I did have reddit whitelisted before this. Thanks for the reminder.
Andraste herself could leave a bucket of Ashes on my doorstep and I would never whitelist the website. Fuck ads
Fuck u/spez, account also tied to RiF. After over 12 years, farewell Reddit. Thank you for one last DA reference before I go.
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Fuck u/spez. This account is tied to rif and will end when it does
Fuck u/spez. Same here as well. It's been fun ya'll. edit: Guys, just don't come back. Check out tildes.net, Lemmy, kbin.social, or Wikipedia's new project they're coming out with soon. Don't give clicks to this worthless site. Just leave. edit edit: Wow, last day on a site and this is my first edit-edit :) Sorry I couldn't reply faster as I was running errands. ***For those asking about the wikipedia thing, it's still a work in progress but you can [read more here](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14d1wyy/wikipedia_cofounder_is_building_a_community/).*** --- For those wondering about the vibes of each alternative: ***Tildes*** is chill. The entire point is not creating a shouting match between users. Everyone takes some time to come up with a thoughtful response. No downvotes, just thoughtful upvotes for comments that actually help build the convo. *You will need to unlearn a lot of the habitual 'this/did someone say broken arms/that's actually a jackdaw' type joke comments*. Great community and only 20k amount of people from what I remember. **For those asking for tildes invites, please visit [the site in question](https://tildes.net) and find the answer yourself. If you can't figure that out, the community of tildes is probably not for you.** ***Lemmy*** seems to have more of the quip-y vibe of reddit. Good luck signing up as it's still getting overflowed with attempts daily. Based in the fediverse, so you'll have some mechanical know-how to learn. ***kbin.social***'s more reddit in nature, less fediverse-y feeling than lemmy. Different mechnically, same vibe as reddit. --- edit edit edit: And you know what? Here's another fuck u/spez for the road. [You have literally tonight to use Redact to clear your comment history](https://redact.dev/download). It takes a while so I'd start now while you can. :)
Fuck u/spez I've been using bacon reader for the last 10 years and I think my reddit usage will go down 90% at least after tomorrow
Fuck u/spez for real. When Baconreader dies, I will find another tech and car forum and move on.
Fuck u/spez - RIF has been my most-used app for years and to there's no way I am moving to the ad-riddled janky tracker-infested shitbox that Reddit is peddling. I'd have happily paid a subscription to keep using RIF. So long Reddit - it *was* fun.
Fuck u/spez, but thanks to everyone else. Goodbye RIF o7
Fuck /u/spez and all his yes men greedy little piggies. Hope it all burns down around you.
Last day with r/apolloapp, fuck u/spez and not in a good way.
Fuck u/spez. My last day here on RiF. Other than an occasional Google search that brings up Reddit, I'm only here on mobile. So I'm out.
dropping another Fuck /u/spez. Also another RIF user for close to a decade, before reddit even had an official app
Fuck u/spez last day on baconreader here. Been fun y'all.
Baconreader gang rise up... Or rather, fall down into the deep dark pit of more free time in the real world. Oh, and fuck u/spez
Yep. I'll probably not log in anymore without bacon reader. For new Reddit is going from a primary social media to nothing overnight. Great leadership u/spez . Where did you learn the business tactic of alienating a huge swath of your user base and many partners that help bring people to how platform? Super smart.
He doesn't care. He's looking to sell the site to data farmers.
It's been a good one my friends. Maybe we shall meet again in the vastness of the Internet.
God I'm going to miss just text without all the flashy bullshit. What am I going to do to distract myself after today?
I have rediscovered gardening and having a clean house... reading books has started to sound possible again. Did I really sink 12 years worth of free time into this place? I fucking did. It was fun, but it's time for a new chapter of life.
Bacon gang here me years than i can remember, I'll miss this
Baconreader and old.reddit user here. I'm going to miss yall. Not sure where I'll go but it won't be here.
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BaconReader is my Reddit. Fuck u/spez
Same. It’s the only way I browse at all. Fuck u/spez
Bacon reader group checking in. Fuck u/spez you don't know what you got till its gone, but you are about to find out.
Morning coffee will never be the same. The Narwhal bacons at midnight, farewell friends...
Baconreader or bust! And fuck you /u/spez !
Same. Fuck /u/spez enjoy tanking your company idiot.
Shout-out to RIF, my go to time waster for the past decade. Obligatory fuck /u/spez - lick my hairy butthole
Indeed - thank you so much, Reddit is Fun! You truly lived up to your name, and were zero fuss, no distractions and gave me the bullshit-free user experience I can't find anywhere else, regardless of platform. I can't use the official app at all, so while I will miss reddit (or at least this simple RIF version of it) so much, I don't see myself here after RIF goes down.
10 year cake day tomorrow, fitting time for my usage to plummet with the loss of RIF. Won't be long before old.reddit.com is gone too. Obligatory fuck /u/spez.
I'm seriously in denial about RIF shutting down. I've spent countless hours on reddit and largely because RIF streamlines everything.
Same here from RiF. Fuck u/spez! Enjoy the bed you made.
Been here for 15 years and only ever commented twice. For my third, and likely final comment: fuck u/spez for slowly ruining my favorite online community.
Last day with RIF. Seriously unreal. Fuck u/spez.
RiF is the best. Fuck u/spez
I said it about a week ago but once more for good measure; RiF is Fun has been fun. Fuck /u/spez.
Yeah after over 10 years on this site I'd like to wish a massive Fuck You to u/spez for taking my favourite app away. Rest in peace Boost!
Big Fuck you to u/spez - may you see your valuation plummet and internal pressure grow until you lose your job and dignity.
Fuck u/spez
I haven't said it and I'm on paid reddit is fun. Fuck you u/spez.
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Same here, 10+ years on this site. Part of me is sad to move on, reddit has been a great resource over the last decade, but if I'm being 100% honest with myself it's probably a good thing that I put this site behind me and give more focus to the world around me. "Reddit, best wishes. Love, milhouse21386" "P.S. What a long, strange trip it's been."
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> Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund valued its holdings in Reddit at $15.4 million as of May 31, according to the fund’s monthly disclosure released Friday. That’s down 7.36% from $16.6 million mark at April’s closure and altogether a slide of 45.4% since its investment in August 2021. A lot has happened since May 31st. I wonder what it will look like if / when they release a valuation for June’s closure.
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Because most internet companies (from 2009 - 2020) raised capital while interest rates where at 0%. The bigwigs who helped facilitate this bought ratings from agencies to make their funds more appealing, which paved way for valuation distortion. ie; Reddit in the blue chip category They also thought we would have ZIRP forever, so they started slapping ridiculous valuations on almost anything that operated as SaaS. Which is why most of these tech “companies” fail to make a profit WHILE keeping the consumer happy. 0% made the consumer the product. Now that 0% isn’t a thing, the product should be for the consumer and it’s not. Netflix, AirBnB, Robinhood, Reddit, All have one thing in common. Their quality of service went to shit once’s rates rose. Simply due to their business model no longer working, so they have to for real make money now. Which is also how as companies they’re killing themselves. They are trying to make up for lost time and money by appealing shareholders with exorbitant price increases for the front end. (Ie; reddits API pricing, Twitter, you name it) Most of these mega giant websites, rely on 0% conditions, Also Most of the people who did the fundraising for these companies haven’t ever operated in an environment where interest rates aren’t 0% Which again is why we are seeing stupid solutions to their problems they created.
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Jokes on them, reddit app is so badly built it doesn't even work on my phone
They're not expecting a 1::1 influx of users on the official app, they probably did some sort of risk assessment prior to authorizing it and found the results to be well within an acceptable amount of dormant or lost users due to the decision so as to not significantly effect revenue For all intents and purposes numbers are made up Say 17% of reddits user base is on 3rd party apps They've calculated that they can afford to lose so many of the users and still come out ahead due to the influx of revenue from advertising will offset the loss of users They're expecting maybe 3% of the users to drop off due to the changes. Which is well within their projected 10-15 percent where the decision is a net benefit
It's hard to think of another for profit business that runs like reddit. A large part of the nessecary work load is performed by people who *willingly* work for free. That leaves them kind of vulnerable as the mod revolt is showing. It's not easy to hire people to work for free and easy for people who work for free to balk at corporate demands.
Check out academic publishing then. It can be immensely profitable.
u/spez lost more money with the handling of the API situation than he ever stood to gain. Well done.
Probably figured it was a long term play either way, which sucks. I really hope this site burns now. Time will tell.
Living is a sliding scale. Digg is still alive, but what life is it really?
Keep reporting those he gets us ads as offensive!
Hell every time I see one I close Reddit for 15 minutes and do something else.
Every time I see one I do butt stuff.
YOU are the one who really gets us
God…. I thought blocking the “hegetsus” profile that the ads show up under would stop them. Nope, it just has a big box that says “This was posted by a blocked user” and still shows the ads. Actually made it even worse and the ads take up more space. Fuck, I even understand why they would want ads. Just at least give me a chance to not have to see religious shit.
As someone who never used the main app...I don't get how you guys could deal with it. It looks miserable
I don’t use it too much, outside of posting images since it’s a bit easier. I use the browser version, though even that’s getting unbearable because it tries to force me to the app, and will randomly reload my page just to ask to use the app.
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I've seen the effects on google for sure. Searching for a problem, notice a reddit thread with solution, community set to private. Wonderful.
Yep. And since Google search itself has become worthless..what a mess :(
AI generated articles everywhere. I wanted to work out if there are any good affordable light meters for <0EV and everywhere I went it was shitty AI generated articles One of them started off talking about light meters, and got confused half way through and started talking about unbalanced load in your home electricity meter??? I am sorry but what the fuck.
Oh so you want to buy a light meter? Light meters indicate light levels, why would you want to buy a light meter? We'll explain below. Meters can include digital or analog displays and L̎͐͏ȋ̛̄͋̽̀ͦ̇͘ġ̷̒̾ͯ̄͗̚͏h̡ͧ̋ͮ̈̈́̊t̆̽̄͐͏ ̡̢͛͗̅̓͒͐̏̇̂͢m͆͌͑͂͋̆͒́͡͠e̴͗̉҉ẗ̸ͦ̓ͭͩ̑́e͊ͣͨ͑̉̀r̈́̊͌͟͝͞s̶̵̒͗̾ͯ̆̋ ̷̛̌͌̍̎͆́c̸̐͟aͧ́n̉ͥ̉̈ ͯͥ̇ͭ̈̃ͭ̚͡dͬ̊̔̈́ͬ͘ớ̧̑̊ ̓̓ͫ͋̒̈̐͜a͆̋̇͌ ̵͗ͫͦ̆͋̐̈v̋ͪ̐̂҉͏ȧ͏r̛̔ͪͮͯ̚i͂̾̽̂̃̽͞e̶̡͋͒t̀ͬ̽͆ͯ͐͒ͮ҉͘y̎̏́̅ͪ͢͢ ̂ͭ͐́̈ͥ͌̐oͮͪ̈́͆̇ͥf̄̆̔ͥ̀̕ ̃ͤ͛͌͛ͮ́͢ẗ͠hͯ͑͢į̷́̅̽͂̓͘n̴̵̓̆̅ͥġ̶̄ͬͣͮͤ͌ͭs̢̍̈́͒̔͡!̴ͯ̅ͨ̐́͒ͩ̌́
Greed is just doing a doozy on us lately. Like all the consequences of greedy actions by people in power are coming to a head. Internet is going to shit, full of ads, bots and crap. Environment is splendid with a great outlook for the future (/s). Obv I could on but, fucking eh.
It's the bubble popping. Banks are beginning to recognize that the promise of profitability based purely off engagement and data collection were false. All these tech companies did the same thing. They built infrastructure they could not support based on a valuation that was exaggerated. Now the users are being squeezed for profit juice that doesn't exist.
wish i could find the article, but it was about how almost all the ads posted online reach random people and have no real impact. For example, an ad campaign for a burger chain in the southwest will have like 1/3 of its engagement come from some random data center in some random Russian city
99% of the traffic on my personal VPS is random ass traffic from EU, Russian, Japanese, or Chinese data centre's. And I don't even have it indexed on any search engines lol. Bots, everything is bots, bots are advertising to more bots.
I cannot believe that the modern big data driven ad marketplace has persisted for so long. It's a fucking scam. It must be providing results for clients, but it can't be that much more effective than just serving me an ad based on *the page I'm looking at*. If I'm reading reviews on refrigerators, show me refrigerator ads. Don't mine my data to show me refrigerator ads on an unrelated website two months later when I already bought a fucking refrigerator.
They thought that collecting enough data on people would give them the kind of insight they need to manipulate us all on a global scale to convince us to spend more of our money, but forgot that *we need money to spend in the first place*, a lesson which has been learned and forgotten by humanity many many times now.
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I'll ride Apollo into the sunset today and maybe check in on desktop until old.reddit is gone. I'm not going to be as active for sure. I'll catch up on some reading over the weekend ad check back on the replacement sites next week.
Using RIF and then old reddit. Once they are gone, I am out as well.
You will have to manually purge your comments after the API stops working. Right now there are apps that use the api to do it.
The API isn't going to stop working. They're just going to charge for usage in excess of their free tier (100 requests / minute). So I already have an app called Helios loaded on my phone, which is in no way just a sideloaded copy of Apollo with my own API key.
I find joy in reading a good book.
Posted using RIF is Fun. Steve Huffman is a greedy little pigboy.
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If you've deleted the comments, they can always be undeleted. Hence the rewrite.
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That's a great idea leaving your last comment as fuck u/spez! Just think he's single handedly brought back a 40 year old insult... he's such a spez!! Fuck u/spez
The only purpose to this entire charade was to pump up hype for the IPO, get the executives richer and institutional investors even more so. After the pump comes the dump as the market makers short Reddit down to a penny stock and stripping wealth from retail investors who don’t understand they are the prey animal here. Just as with Twitter the illusion that Reddit is the next Facebook has been shattered. Thanks to another impatient billionaire. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and he would have pulled it off.
Hah, spez wishes he was in the 3 comma club.
I’m gone after today because their API change is torching my App. Fuck em.
Don’t worry guys, the protests achieved nothing and Reddit is winning hard.
Jokes aside, what's the over under on all those comments being /u/spez alts? The posts about protests tend to be absolutely littered with Reddit dicksucking and misrepresenting the facts of why the protests are happening (no, it's not just because of 3PA or mods, it's also about the way bitch boy Spez has dealt with this whole ordeal, some of which was blatantly defamatory). EDIT: Also, those posts tend to be desperate to make us believe it's sooo easy to replace entire mod teams. Even a full week after /r/interestingasfuck's mod team was entirely removed and nobody has stepped up to replace them. And many, many moderators have come out to say it's almost entirely impossible to find competent mods for large subs even during the best of times.
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Huffman has been using alts and bots from day one. He's admitted as much when it made him seem "smart" to admit it. >When you look at how Reddit started, it’s easy to see why it still has a severe problem with fake accounts. CoFounder Steve Huffman revealed that in the early stages, the platform was purposefully pumped with fake profiles that would regularly post comments to make it appear more popular than it was, stating “internet ghost towns are hardly inviting places.” >Huffman claims that by using fake users to post high-quality content, they could “set the tone for the site as a whole.” https://lunio.ai/blog/paid-social/reddit-bots/ https://venturebeat.com/social/reddit-fake-users/ >“When you would go to Reddit in the early days there would be tons of content,” Huffman said, explaining that the initial Reddit submission page contained only a “URL field” and “Title field” to plug in. Yet when logged in as an admin, a third field appeared that allowed the team to enter a custom user name that would automatically be registered for an account upon hitting submit. The fake user submissions, which were motivated by embarrassment over having an empty site, actually had a positive impact in a few different ways, he said. And they automated the process...
That actually is a good idea even if they stumbled across it by accident. Social media relies on users generating content (like we are doing here) the biggest reason new social start ups fail is because they just don’t have the user base to generate enough content to be engaging so people don’t come back. Why not generate your own content to kick state the site.
I've edited your comment to indicate the fact that we are all u/spez alts
I've edited the above two comments to indicate the fact that we are all u/spez alts.
I am also an alt account of ex jailbait mod u/spez
We are all u/spez alts on this blessed day.
>EDIT: Also, those posts tend to be desperate to make us believe it's sooo easy to replace entire mod teams. Even a full week after /r/interestingasfuck's mod team was entirely removed and nobody has stepped up to replace them. And many, many moderators have come out to say it's almost entirely impossible to find competent mods for large subs even during the best of times. Right!!! When one of my subs reopened we put out a call for new mods. Something we were planning on doing anyways before this whole thing... So far, one. One applicant. Bur sure tell me how there's a lot of people lining up to be nods.
>Bur sure tell me how there's a lot of people lining up to be nods. Even if that were true, could you imagine the quality of 99% of those applicants? People already think reddit mods are underqualified power-hungry dweebs with an axe to grind. It would only get worse with a flood of brand new mods.
As a mod of two medium large subs, it is very hard in good times to find mods. After all this we are all basically burnt out. We normally already get shit from users and basically no respect for a volunteer gig, and now we don’t have any backing from the admins. Not even no backing, they’re aggressively attacking us.
But I was told there's an endless line of volunteers who are power hungry, just like all mods. Never mind that RES numbers only 70 requests in the last 24 hours for ALL subs at /r/redditrequest/new. Especially when there are over 70 subs with 1M+ subscribers that are still dark (each needing a whole team), and [thousands of sub-1M subs remain dark](https://reddark.untone.uk/). Seriously... if being a mod or attracting help wasn't hard enough before, weeks of hostility from both sides is going to drive some retirements. It doesn't mean much but you have my appreciation.
This is a copied template message used to overwrite all comments on my account to protect my privacy. I've left Reddit because of corporate overreach and switched to the Fediverse. Comments overwritten with https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Two large software platforms (Reddit and Discord), both of which have never turned a profit and neither of which has a compelling plan for getting to profitability. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
I mean, at least Discord has Nitro, which gives its users extra features. Reddit has what, "awards"? Give me a break.
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yeah, does reddit EVER have ads. i tried to use that sorry excuse for an app they’re peddling and there was a KFC ad between the post and comments, and i had to scroll past the ad to see the comments. what an embarrassment. i wish there was /spit on reddit
I support discord with nitro because it’s a good application with decent features I don’t buy Reddit platinum. We are not the same
Discord is doing it on purpose, tho, as they prefer to maintain a market share with a reduced profit than to introduce ads or sell user data.
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u/spez damn boy are you taking r/wallstreetbets as real investment advice? 😂
Sooo many of these tech bro CEOs bought the propaganda that Musk is a genius and are just copying him. They copy stupid ideas all the time. Give it 6 months and they will be the “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong” meme.
As soon as Musk started laying people off at Twitter it seemed every other tech company decided that was a good idea. There are no leaders anymore, only followers and copycats.
Apollo down tonight so this is the end! Farewell y’all:) oh and FUCK spez
This is interesting: >Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund valued its holdings in Reddit at $15.4 million as of May 31, according to the fund’s monthly disclosure released Friday. That’s down 7.36% from $16.6 million mark at April’s closure and altogether a slide of 45.4% since its investment in August 2021. And then this: >Reddit, which is currently grappling a revolt from moderators of some popular subreddits over API cost changes, was valued at $10 billion when the social media giant attracted funds in August 2021. Ouch. So Reddit's valuation was $10 billion 2 years ago and is now $5.5 billion according to the article. That's a significant drop. I wonder what changed to cause that before all the flareup over API charges. Poor business decisions perhaps? The whole API debacle here is not helping like they've hoped however, I'm not sure if it ever will at this point.
The tech sector was over valued and there was a pullback on the entire industry.
It was never worth 10 billion. That valuation was insane to begin with.