News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms. Parent comment

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:19PM (#25307247)
The problem is that the medium is the message, and while you might be using old.reddit.com, most of the other people posting are using the new site. That has lowered the quality of discourse.

I first noticed this when people on hobby reddits started asking FAQs that had already been answered in the sidebar – the new design now hid the sidebar from users. So, subreddits where newbies typically got answers before they had to post basic questions, have devolved into people asking the same basic questions over and over again.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by slfnflctd on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:15PM (#25309607)
I've also noticed more threads with a bunch of top level comments saying exactly the same thing-- eventually, it occurred to me that it's because users in the new interface can't easily see all the existing comments or search them to see if what they're about to post is already there. It was a jarring realization.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by benhurmarcel on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:48PM (#25307716)
The admins can put messages and links in the new sidebar though.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:56PM (#25307818)
There is no visible sidebar on the modern mobile interface, though.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by benhurmarcel on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:00PM (#25307881)
Ah yes, not on mobile. Reddit on mobile is only bearable using a third-party app.
[ Parent | on HN ]