Notice there is only 1 full headline (from /r/NoStupidQuestions) visible, it doesn’t even show the full post. There are 3 of those “trending” boxes but only 2 of those even fit their headlines because they are like 3 words long, they cut off anything longer including the description

I originally became addicted to Reddit because of how streamlined it was to skim dozens of headlines and pick from lots of content, seems they have decided content is not something they want to provide anymore :/

  • @profdc9
    0•1 year ago

    To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;

    How can you expect something like a social media website, so recently conceived, to persist in its present form so long? Everything changes so fast. Remember when televisions were these big boxes and there were only three channels?

    • Flying Squid
      5•1 year ago

      Televisions have improved. Reddit has not.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Excuse me, but, what the hell are you talking about?

      What’s all this stuff about plants?

      “Flat panel” TVs have been a thing for almost three decades. Reddit was doing just fine until “new” Reddit became a thing and it steadily declined into insanity… More than a decade into it’s success, they redesigned it and in less than half the time it took them to build the site up, they’ve driven a large number of users off with their insane choices.

      Look, the only reason that Reddit hasn’t collapsed is because of the 80/20 rule in business, applied to Reddit it would be that 80% of the activity on the site is coming from 20% of the userbase. A LARGE chunk of that 20% has jumped ship, either to Lemmy or somewhere else. So they’re staying afloat on the 80% of lurkers and low value users, plus a small group of people too dedicated to Reddit, or too stubborn to believe it’s sinking.

      Reddit has been around for ~15 years, and 2/3rda of that time was building something, and in the last 1/3rd, they wrecked it. That’s a long long time for something as prominent as Reddit to be around. And this will not be a quick death for them. It will take many years before spez realizes how badly he’s fucked himself. By the time he does, everyone will be deeply engrained in wherever they landed.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        All fair points, but

        what the hell are you talking about? What’s all this stuff about plants?

        I can only imagine that you’ve also said things like “we are indoors, nobody is beating around any bushes” or “how can you have the best of both worlds? There’s only one world” or “there’s no way you could ‘knock it out of the park’, we’re not playing baseball”.