Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.
BotW gave a gold turd as their “fuck you” reward, but reddit is too cheap even for that.
beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.
That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.
Now…
Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe
So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.
Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history
I’ve got all the awards we need right here.
Lemmy Bronze: Hitting the little star on the post.
Lemmy Wooden Nickel: Upvotes
Would be nice if authors could see the amount of stars their content has.
Value!
People spend real money on reddit. What a bunch of loosers.
That’s what I thought when I first saw gold back in 2010…
You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.
Ok, we are not coming back anyway
I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.
Then I realized awards was a scam all along.
It’s okay, Reddit. I don’t post anymore.
Deleted my 15 year old account. I’m not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.
I’d delete my account, but then people wouldn’t see my advertisement for Lemmy in my profile. Plus my repeated 'FUCK REDDIT’s.
Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now? https://www.reddit.com
Thankfully you can still access the old “new” layout at https://new.reddit.com , and of course https://old.reddit.com still exists too.
I only go there for a few communities that don’t exist here, but that is where we are at, at this point.
Wow they are actually copying what digg did, and expecting a different outcome.
Edit: Changed DIGG to digg for correctness.
I’ll have to believe you, I don’t know what DIGG is! I’ll presume its just another media online outlet.
Digg messed up and made a bunch of user-punishing changes and the entire internet all at once moved to Reddit, which was brand new, effectively killing Digg.
Digg has been the high example of what Reddit isn’t, so we’re all very confused whenever Reddit copies things Digg did that were universally hated.It’s basically the life cycle of the internet. A thing is created for the people, it’s beautiful and loved, it is not profitable at all, they use their newfound user base to generate money, they abuse their user base to generate even more money, a new “for the people” alternative springs up, mass migration.
Skype, digg, and MySpace sort of followed that trend. Now reddit is completing the cycle. YouTube should be next, but it’s significantly more expensive to make an alternative. But I remember when making money from YouTube was a south park punchline. Those were better days.
Don’t forget that before Digg we were all on slashdot. Its like the cylons: What happened before will happen again. Or we’re living in a horrible simulation.
Digg was reddit, and reddit was lemmy. This is back in like 08 or 09 i think. Reddit is only big because digg fucked up and everyone went there as the alternative
Notably, Digg updated which also involved a worse interface and didn’t have an “old Reddit” interface you could access. Going to a site that was like the old interface involved leaving Digg and joining Reddit.
That is likely why you can now access older Reddit interfaces. They feel that many people will stay if they can find a way to use the new interface (and they may be right about that). The Digg approach of forcing all to use the new interface was a step over the line for Digg and Reddit likely fears a similar thing could happen to them.
I gave away something on Reddit recently and found out that DMs aren’t the same between new and old Reddit. I got a reply on old Reddit and thought was the only interested person and latter logging in on a different browser found more messages that I didn’t see on old. The messages from old didn’t show up on the new site as well. What a mess.
I’d generalize it as Reddit was for people who read the article, and Digg was for people who didn’t. There were other sites for different communities at the time as well like the Chive and their Bill Murray worship.
Sorry digg.
Hoho man, that naming scheme made me shiver. Bonus points since old and new exist at the same time
Edit: Oh, it just redirects immediately
It did that initially for me as well, I had to clear the cache and cookies for reddit. Goto new.reddit and login again.
Dude I can’t even run the website anymore. It lags, won’t click links, can’t even get into my settings. I thought I had malware but it was exclusive to every time I opened a reddit link.
I get lags too. Interestingly (and not relevant to the topic) I can access reddit okay (but it has huge pause on initial load) on Windows with Chrome (or Opera), but reddit fails to load correctly when I am using Linux with Chromium. Tried other browsers too, reddit seems to not like Linux at all (well my install of Linux anyway). I can’t even log in successfully.
I’m not sure the old new one is that much better than the new new one tbh. I always found it to be bloated af, especially with time it got worse and worse. Also, why are both sites so slow?
I’m no html type code expert, but I do code a lot in other languages. I used f12 on a browser to look at what was going on, on the reddit sites and I have never seen such spaghetti code and layers upon layers of adjustments. I have no idea what they are using behind the scenes (php/js etc, again not my expertise) but it has to be an absolute shitshow.
On old old, and old new, I used to use an element picker in uBlock origin etc, to just remove all the bullshit that annoyed me. This actually sped things up! But its not perfect.
Oh this reminds me, if you are trying to get to new.reddit, for the old-new page, I had to delete all those elements as well, then goto new.reddit fresh and sign in. Then do the element pick again.
“rrred-dit”… that sounds familiar… 🤔
Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”
Reddit sucks balls
They knew it promoted karma farming. It helps them make money so I doubt this is an “oops”.
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