• @Laxaria
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    22 years ago

    It’s shocking how uninspiring Reddit is as a thing today as it was a few years ago. Sure, there’s some more work done on new.reddit.com and the mobile app and stuff, but the site as a technology has had few (if any) visible transformative addition for the vast majority of its users in forever.

    • tal
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      12 years ago

      It does scale better. The uptime is better – I don’t know if you guys used Reddit way back, but it went down a lot, had all kinds of crazy bugs showing up as people pushed changes into production with limited testing. They respond quickly when something does break. I would guess that there is some efforts to avoid network attacks (which have happened) and abuse. They build some monitoring infrastructure.

      I mean, those don’t make Reddit look different, but they do matter.

      Some of that would also probably need to be done for a larger Fediverse.

      It isn’t the lack of new features that’s a problem for me. Sure, it’d be cool if some feature that I really liked came out, but I was okay with things on the feature front.

      I don’t really like the changes from how things had been operating, though.