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Post by darbus alan on Jun 12, 2023 14:36:00 GMT -5
The biggest problem with the official app is that it doesn't have any real accessibility options built in for disabled users. A lot of third party apps like Apollo do have those features.
So making those apps prohibitively expensive to continue to operate smacks really sucks on top of it. Especially since spez has only made vague promises of introducing those features into the official app with no timetable or details.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 12, 2023 14:50:26 GMT -5
The biggest problem with the official app is that it doesn't have any real accessibility options built in for disabled users. A lot of third party apps like Apollo do have those features. So making those apps prohibitively expensive to continue to operate smacks really sucks on top of it. Especially since spez has only made vague promises of introducing those features into the official app with no timetable or details. And considering he promised to add a lot of tools mods requested eight years ago and none have been fulfilled yet...
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jun 12, 2023 15:45:37 GMT -5
Spez' priority was monetisation, there has been plenty of resources and time available for projects like NFTs and crypto wallets, with basic fixes and upgrades an afterthought. If they'd prioritised basic upgrades ten years ago, done more about the asshole problem and made the UI better, they wouldn't be so desperate for income now.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jun 12, 2023 17:14:35 GMT -5
Reddit going down permanently would actually be the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria burning, so much knowledge would be lost because Reddit swallowed up all of the old forums that used to have this information.
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Post by The Warthog on Jun 12, 2023 17:22:22 GMT -5
They're pissing me off because I was "suspended" out of the blue and none of my accounts can access Reddit. Probably mad because I amassed a f***-ton of karma in such a short time and it was just by being myself and leaning into my wit.
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Post by The Ichi on Jun 12, 2023 17:28:30 GMT -5
At the very least I'm assuming there's enough protest here for them to be forced to backtrack?
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jun 12, 2023 18:21:34 GMT -5
I use Apollo, and will til it shuts up shop at the end of June.
I was happy pay the one off payment to for it's unlocks cause the app was so streamlined and user friendly it was the best way to use Reddit .
I don't think I can use Reddit in any other way. Don't want to use their shitty mobile app.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 12, 2023 18:22:49 GMT -5
Nothing is gonna happen.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jun 12, 2023 21:23:04 GMT -5
Yup and theres also rumbling they're getting rid of porn too. If that happens I'm gone. All joking aside, porn bans are always an early sign of platforms going real shitty real fast and caring only about sucking up to advertisers. I've never udnerstood advertisers reluctance to advertise on porn. Everybody watches it, and honestly--other than some Karens in their 50s and 60s huffing about it, would anyone actually care? Like, if I clicked on a porn vid and had a Big Mac advert play before or whatever. It woulnd't make me sniff and think "well, I'm not eating McDonald's anymore!"
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Post by Malcolm on Jun 12, 2023 21:46:42 GMT -5
All joking aside, porn bans are always an early sign of platforms going real shitty real fast and caring only about sucking up to advertisers. I've never udnerstood advertisers reluctance to advertise on porn. Everybody watches it, and honestly--other than some Karens in their 50s and 60s huffing about it, would anyone actually care? Like, if I clicked on a porn vid and had a Big Mac advert play before or whatever. It woulnd't make me sniff and think "well, I'm not eating McDonald's anymore!" Probably the same reason why they don't like to advertise their products on wrestling: they're cretins who only want "desirable"(yuppie) customers. In all seriousness it has a lot to with the stigma of sex in the West. Meanwhile people seem okay with a random lucky charms commercial airing during a violent episode of CSI Miami.
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Post by poodoojenkins on Jun 12, 2023 21:54:23 GMT -5
I've been on Reddit all day.
It's fine. I've really not even noticed a difference.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jun 12, 2023 22:13:39 GMT -5
In all seriousness it has a lot to with the stigma of sex in the West. In the past, yes. But in the modern day--is there a stigma? Maybe with the older, stuffy generation who will sniff and huff and tut. But the younger generation are much more open--and they'd be the target audience for many of the ads and products anyway. Just seems a massive missed marketing opportunity for me. Actually, while we're on the subject--I am amazed that porn site ads are all for shitty, shifty, shady products and aps--"this game will make you cum," "hot single milfs in your area" etc, that only a sucker will buy. Rather than ads by legitimate porn/adult industry products. I've never seen legit adult products---whether it be stuff like fleshlights, or toys to use with your partner-- advertised on a porno sight. It's always some shitty looking cell game or a dodgy dating site.
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Post by darbus alan on Jun 12, 2023 22:28:39 GMT -5
All joking aside, porn bans are always an early sign of platforms going real shitty real fast and caring only about sucking up to advertisers. I've never udnerstood advertisers reluctance to advertise on porn. Everybody watches it, and honestly--other than some Karens in their 50s and 60s huffing about it, would anyone actually care? Like, if I clicked on a porn vid and had a Big Mac advert play before or whatever. It woulnd't make me sniff and think "well, I'm not eating McDonald's anymore!" Basically what happens is outspoken moral majority-type groups put pressure on credit card companies to not do business with "mainstream" sites that deal in erotic material. That in turn takes away a major way of making revenue. It's really shitty and underhanded, but it's unfortunately a very successful scare tactic.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 12, 2023 22:36:08 GMT -5
I've been on Reddit all day. It's fine. I've really not even noticed a difference. The mobile app is toast, so it's forced me to use the site, which is annoying, and about 75% of the boards I'm on have shut down for the next two days.
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Post by Fade on Jun 12, 2023 22:41:55 GMT -5
I wonder if we will see a mass exodus from /r/squaredcircle coming here. Don't put that evil on us. I miss r/squaredcircle a lot, ngl. If you look at the masses, yeah there’s questionable people/takes, but the top comments (especially lately) have been pretty level headed or just funny.
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Post by poodoojenkins on Jun 12, 2023 23:27:56 GMT -5
I've been on Reddit all day. It's fine. I've really not even noticed a difference. The mobile app is toast, so it's forced me to use the site, which is annoying, and about 75% of the boards I'm on have shut down for the next two days. I only use the app, and I haven't had any issues whatsoever.
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Post by poodoojenkins on Jun 12, 2023 23:28:32 GMT -5
Don't put that evil on us. I miss r/squaredcircle a lot, ngl. If you look at the masses, yeah there’s questionable people/takes, but the top comments (especially lately) have been pretty level headed or just funny. That place ran me off long ago. Those people are nuts.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 13, 2023 1:53:43 GMT -5
All joking aside, porn bans are always an early sign of platforms going real shitty real fast and caring only about sucking up to advertisers. I've never udnerstood advertisers reluctance to advertise on porn. Everybody watches it, and honestly--other than some Karens in their 50s and 60s huffing about it, would anyone actually care? Like, if I clicked on a porn vid and had a Big Mac advert play before or whatever. It woulnd't make me sniff and think "well, I'm not eating McDonald's anymore!" Don't quote me on that but from what I've heard, at least in some cases it's not even necessarily a demand from advertisers, it's websites just assuming that they wouldn't want that.
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Post by Burst on Jun 13, 2023 3:46:28 GMT -5
Unfortunately it doesn't appear that there is any clear next move after Reddit, like there was with the great Digg -> Reddit migration. I suspect this will just end with Reddit continuing on, making money, and being worse. I feel like this is second verse, same as the first, since it's kind of been the same issue with Twitter not having any 1:1 alternative site to which to migrate, though even moreso since you've got Instagram and such as "close enough" platforms to Twitter, but there's nothing I can think of that's the same style as Reddit. I really hope so. In general, we really need to promote individual, independent sites and platforms designed to cater to very specific audiences. I will definitely say, deviantArt is by no means perfect, but has stuck it out strikingly well for a relatively OG site. Yeah, they still want you to upgrade to a paid account, but that's always been there and at least compared to when I was most active there a million years ago, it seems considerably more accessible like they even know it's the first major website that burgeoning nerd artists tend to come across. Feel like they've also picked up a bit of Twitter and Tumblr refugees that weren't already cross-platforming on there. Reddit going down permanently would actually be the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria burning, so much knowledge would be lost because Reddit swallowed up all of the old forums that used to have this information. There's a part of me that finds it increasingly curious that you've got arguably two of the biggest information-sharing platforms of the last decade in Twitter and Reddit seemingly out to deliberately tank themselves both by pissing off their userbase, inviting problematic audiences, or just willfully breaking functionality, but then there's also a good amount of "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence" with tech bros, Muskrat included.
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Post by Joker on Jun 13, 2023 4:45:10 GMT -5
I wonder if we will see a mass exodus from /r/squaredcircle coming here. It's been mentioned as something the mods to look out for, but so far there hasn't been a big upswing of new users.
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