And I came from the link in this post which was supposed to go to old.reddit
That’s how dire things are. I have been a reddit user since 2009, almost 15 years. But I’m not a nostalgic person. As awful as it has gotten it’s still the place where most discussion on the internet happens (and has happened for over a decade.) That can’t just be replaced overnight. They’re sitting on a huuuuge amount of content that is fully indexed by search engines too. This would be a huge blow to the internet in general I think. All so they can have a Groupon style IPO.
I may be wrong in this case, though.
Edit: oh no, that seems to just point to the desktop old interface now. Weird.
I bet it's only a matter of time before old goes
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved...
imgur has gone to shit as well. I'd imagine the trend is happening across most sites with surveillance as their business model.
I also don't understand why discussion of this topic rarely touches on adversarial interoperability? Explicitly published and versioned APIs are a nicety. If companies are going to choke them, then why not just use the same API the web interface uses rather than paying the Danegeld?
But why would I need javascript to view a JPG?
2. Because the number of people who disable JavaScript is a rounding error.
So at least they did that right. imgur has been failing hard at this for ~5+ years.
They don't want hotlinking so the image data doesn't have a permanent url. They only want the backend to be responsible for sending image data. This then requires an image viewer written in javascript. This is not a bad design. This is fulfilling business requirements successfully and efficiently.
EDIT: efficient for the business not for your browser
- imgur.com
- btloader.com
- ccgateway.net
- cloudflare
- google analytics
- media-lab.ai
- sascdn.com
- scorecardresearch
- stretchsquirrel
- amazon adsystem
- assembly exchange
- run.app
3 of these, imgur, cloudflare, and medialab appear to be the minimum to load the image, and also seems to make everything on the page work (upvoting, commenting, etc.)
I don't think it's efficiency even on their end they're looking for, its tracking and revenue maximization. Which is the reason I block Javascript.
EDIT: actually it seems like you just need imgur and medialab unblocked, so just 2 of the 13.
These are not mutually exclusive. In fact both these things are the whole point.
> EDIT: actually it seems like you just need imgur and medialab unblocked, so just 2 of the 13.
Yeah exactly.
Mobile apps go into stores. App stores (especially the Apple app store) have many rules about UGC in apps. Including rules that may be incompatible with ToS of your service. Like the rule saying that NSFW content must not exist.
On your website, on the other hand, you're the king. You set your own rules. There's no one to tell you what can and can't be done unless you're breaking laws so hard some government notices.
So by virtue of that, there's usually LESS content available in the app than on the website. This, though? You have to look at this content in the app BECAUSE it is unreviewed? This is bonkers. This is completely backwards to everything my own experience tells me.
This is just a lame excuse to make you install the app.