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Reddit Inc. finally makes a change everyone was asking for: they're removing DM's entirely 
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Why do Reddit admins keep making the site worse?
"We'll remove it whenever we feel like it"
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They desperately want to remove "old Reddit" and replace it with modern internet garbage that's easier to monetise. They've now started gradually killing old features to make it less appealing.
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Hey guys we're removing the ability to comment on posts, the whole comment infrastructure is cumbersome and the concept itself archaic. Going forward you can repost content that you like to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Reddit with a caption of your choosing after a brief, 15-second ad (7 for patrons). This should meaningfully improve load times and allow us to roll out more exciting, modern features to bring rDrama's software into the 25th year of the third millennium at last.
Comments will be sunsetted on 4/14. Old comments will be archived as read-only for the foreseeable future, don't worry.
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A bunch of jannies already effectively disabled comments, particularly on Reddit "dating" subs (
). Apparently the entire section was just incels replying "mine" to every foid post.
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What dating subs? Also thats hilarious
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Pretty much anything with "r4r" in the name
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If these are my last free words then so be it
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hey u got a suicide wish, buddy?
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Reddit was functionally complete over a decade ago. Their codecels are going to find work for themselves even if it's detrimental to the site.
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Like Groomercord Like Youtube Like Gmail Like Spotify Like... we can go on and on frankly.
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Meanwhile the passion project of a handful of rslurs somehow adds more features that work better than a multibillion dollar corporation.
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swoftware twuwy is a case where if u thru dwozens of eng at the pwoblem they'ww dwo it many times swower, at magnyitudes mwore the cwost, with a wose result
and our ecwonyomic system hasn't fwigured this out yet
alswo if the !jannies ewer seww out, swo help mwe gwod i wiww murder each and ewery onye of them...
in minyecwaft of cwourse and rewl life <3
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I love selecting text and not knowing if "Web search" will be presented as an option
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For a while on my phone it defaulted to "Read Aloud" and you had to touch another button to get to "Copy". Feel like that was 100% some pm telling the dev team for text selection that they had to prioritize inclusion, so they ended up making something objectively worse to use for 99.99% of users to benefit the 0.01% who need something read aloud to understand it.
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*product managers. codercels are kinda fine with not fucking shit up if they don't have to.PMs on the otherhand ... are hired to change shit, so change shit they willwhy don't we just make companies of codercels?that's a good question actuallyJump in the discussion.
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reddit doesnt make money. codercels are good at coding but you have to make money. revenue matters.
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Their P&L would probably look better after an 80% headcount reduction
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Just like rdrama lmao
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You're not excited for the neopets update?
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Couldn't
hard enough even if I tried
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I think the Luigi Mangione fedpost extravanga + the WhitePeopleTwitter temp ban made Reddit HQ realize they have a problem of their userbase being utterly feral so they are trying to kill the issue by a thousand cuts.
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No one but themselves to blame
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No doubt. Also makes it harder to organize site-wide chimpouts. They'll still do it on libertariancord or whatever, it'll just be harder.
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But gigajannies have access to DMs presumably, if it happens offsite they have less control.
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I assume they actually don't. Generally admin can't/don't read your DMs unless law enforcement is asking. It's also potentially crushing for business if people find out their DMs were read. There's always gonna be some turbo neurodivergent admigger who tries to poke around, but outside of that it's not very common. At least it wasn't when I did this shit in the 2Ks.
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Remember when spez edited the comments of people who called him a child molester and it caused a huge uproar? Darn the world has changed a lot since then.
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`yeah but their whole site is just a text forum.
it's quite replaceable and i can't wait to dump it forever
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It's all because they banned /r/fatpeoplehate
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Same as every other software/Internet company, proliferation of jeets
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