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So, because of some nebulous brainwashing argument. Got it. We should literally ban religion then; there are still people who believe they “meet their family” when they die. Like delusional coping mechanisms that cloud their existence. Making people think they have some permanent existence after death causes people to do weird shit that slows society down and makes everyone uncomfortable. Yet we allow people to walk around believing in delusions.

Maybe let’s start with the real brainwashing bullshit first.

'simple' is a kind way of describing the decline of this site.

Consistent design and usability!

Wut these people HAVE been bitching online in their communities, they’ve also been job hunting like crazy, LinkedIn is full of people looking for referrals.

There’s also the fact that tech workers who got laid off from meta are usually pretty skilled and a lot of smaller companies snap them up (at lower comp), so they’re not starved for choice like layoffs in other industries… the demand for software engineers is still pretty high

Let's cross our fingers shall we?

Indeed. Makes me anxious that eventually it will go the way of the dodo. Even now uploading multiple image posts already requires switching over to the new design, multiple tables formatting is broken - the new features are not getting implemented in the classic mode anymore. Just a matter of time until something critical kills it off, imo.

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Reddit modding is a joke. I've only ever seen a handful that I would consider well-run and the worst offenders are the most popular. Power trips aside, most mods basically don't want to do their job, assuming their job is making a "good" space that fits the sub name and description.

In one sports-related sub I visit, sometimes a conversation can get heated, with people challenging others' closely held beliefs when off-the-field real life bleeds into the subject. If more than 3 or 4 people take it too far, they lock the whole thread, ending the actual good conversation taking place between a hundred other people. They stop the whole discussion instead of the few who can't act civilized, just because they don't want to put in any effort at all. It's maddening.

The bare-bones lightweight format of OG reddit was a major part of why the site took off over other message/image boards in the first place.

Nowadays it has the near-monopoly on web forum content to retain users despite newer horrendous layout design.

Companies hire a bunch of people who then need to find busywork to do all day to keep their jobs relevant. That results in continually redesigning UI that wasn't broken in the first place, usually for the worse.

Then you get "Make it look more modern" which ends up translating to "make the usability worse", by aping other companies' bad design that was generated by that very ludicrous process of unnecessary design worsening.

Sites and services that became popular in part or whole due to UI success, have a tendency to destroy that UI once they have achieved critical mass. The users become a captive audience and are stuck with it, and whoever runs the company by then time is usually completely clueless as as to how the site/service attracted users to gain any value in the first place.

It's a cancer that infects almost all of computing.

New reddit is basically unusable

I joined reddit before new reddit existed. I can't stand old reddit layout. Its hard to look at. Just a bunch of lines of text with tiny little thumbnails. New reddit is far easier to look at and use for me.

It's certainly possible, yes. Especially since the toggle to make the site always direct you to the old layout can be found in the settings. Presumably very few users have reasons to visit it other than to set their user icons and other minor stuff.

I use a third-party app rather than the official app or the desktop interface so…yeah.

Aside from the one-off person here and there, isn't it odd that these companies that layoff so many people... especially in those fields... we don't see more of them bitching about being let go online?

It's kind of like the numbers are like Hindenberg. All show.

At this point I presume the only people using new reddit are people who don’t know old reddit exists

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I've not heard of Sync but I'll check it out thanks! (Sometimes Infinity bugs out remembering what you've viewed)

Yeah there’s plenty of great third party mobile apps, I like Apollo on iOS and Sync on Android.

I use Infinity For Reddit since the actual reddit app loves popping ads in every 2/3 posts.

I see. Well, it is true that the power of a mod should always be used in a responsible manner. And therefore one shouldn't be a mod in first place if they're willing to abuse that power. The option to temp ban someone exists and thus it should ALWAYS be preferable to use that in lieu of perma banning hapless users on the spot for arbitrary reasons.

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Nah.

A volunteer position of power is bound to attract individuals who just want power. You don't need to have a beef with them to acknowledge the fact that thousands of people complain that rules are applied arbitrarily.

I get that there are thousands of subs and that hiring staff for each one of them would be impossible. But the bigger subs should be moderated by Reddit employees.

Moderation is time-consuming, mentally exhausting and only a person who's not doing well IRL would accept these massive cons for the small dopamine rush of "being in charge", whatever the fuck that means.

Why so? Lemme guess, you've got a serious beef with them or something?

Yeah, I'm with you when it comes to using the old Reddit as well. It's honestly a miracle that they're able to succesfully maintain the two versions to this day like this.