Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by tenryuu on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:28PM
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Facebook also tending to restrict access to information behind a login.
Compared to reddit, which most of its content is publicly visible.
They are built on two very ideas though.
The amount of times I have to ask someone on Facebook to get information for me is upsetting. To clarify, I'm banned from Facebook, not for being a dickhead though
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by igravious on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:22AM
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In the old days we used to call that excommunication. To be banned from your social network is to be excommunicated.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by hateful on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:28PM
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I agree with this. I've gotten tons of information from Reddit over the years, but have yet to create a user.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by NullPrefix on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:24AM
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>To clarify, I'm banned from Facebook, not for being a dickhead though
Could you, somehow, clarify that last part?
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by chipperyman573 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:12PM
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>The timing couldn't be better with the hollowing-out of Tumblr.
What happened? I haven't heard about this.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by agentdrtran on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:34PM
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recent redesign massively increased ads and "recommended posts" as well as many users/communities being banned for being NSFW.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by beanboot on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:25PM
(#17190191)
Yeah I’d like to hear more about this “hollowing out.”
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by hoffbrau99 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:03PM
(#17190653)
What's Tumblr?
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by falcon620 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:19PM
(#17190143)
Reddit is getting so much usage because it hasn't been monetized yet. At the moment it's quite good free user forum/board/discussion/community-style site.
The new design will drive the users who liked that away. They will either eventually scatter away to hundreds of different places, or one or two new companies will take Reddit's current place.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by vishnu_ks on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:32PM
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I don't think Steve is stupid enough to make the new design compulsory. He has mentioned hundreds of times how the redesign killed Digg. Old users would keep using Reddit by visiting old.reddit.com (or by opting out of redesign). They are not going anywhere.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by falcon620 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:34PM
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I haven't seen an official statement for this yet. If he's planning to do that, great! Until then.. I'm thinking we're probably all migrating to a facebook-like experience soon.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by bruhbruhbruh on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:24PM
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Here is a statement made by our VP of Product.
Tldr: "old.reddit.com is not going away"
https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/8lv96l/feedback_pleas...
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by SquareWheel on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:38PM
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Most users of reddit do not have accounts. Those users have already been using the redesign for some time.
The timing couldn't be better with the hollowing-out of Tumblr.