I think the biggest problem with Reddit is that its upvote-downvote system makes it an extremely poor replacement for forums. The default setting sorts things by karma and hides things with negative karma, decreasing what opinions are seen, and the value placed on karma means that hiveminds form easily and low-effort…

It’s nothing to do with ads. It has to do with API cost. Apps are happy paying for fair access but Reddit wants to charge astronomical amounts instead. They want to turn a huge profit off peoples apps OR force them to close and funnel everyone through their gateways.

One of the things that almost every news outlet seems to miss is that people are not protesting that the reddit API will cost money, they’re protesting that the cost for the API is so absurdly out of touch that it’s designed to kill off any third party apps.

Reddit is a solid site - the base idea is good and very quickly replaced forums because the idea of “Digg but everyone can make their own section” was attractive. But it’s always been run by people who don’t code and don’t understand the appeal of the site at all, so every decision is baffling even more than the usual…

I tend to avoid gaming conversations online as a whole as I find them completely insufferable most of the time, with people mostly just complaining about incredibly minor things as if they were massive violations of their human rights, but having a big compendium of general information, advice, links, and such for…

I’ve become more and more certain that most of those “gaming sites” are written entirely by AI.

As you have demonstrated, there are plenty of ways for your peer group to express their thoughts.

I still say, telling people the “right way” to protest makes you look like an ass. Remember, these are people who would like to continue using Reddit when all of this is over. Not people who just want to leave.

We are talking about it and reddit is down because they chose to shut down whole sections of the site. Nobody would care or notice if a few people deleted their accounts.

Part of the idea is if your favorite subreddits are dark, you won’t visit reddit at all. That’s what I’m doing. The subs I would normally go to reddit for are dark. So, I’m just not using reddit today. Deleting your account doesn’t send as much of a message because it’s permanent. If you just stop using it today and…

this is reddit, not 4chan

I’m lucky enough to have built a web api for a medium-sized company, with enough freedom to do it well (meaning, they were willing to pay the high price for quality work), and I can tell you that it’s all a matter of foresight.

I mean, if that were true, they’d ask for a reasonable rate for using the API, that reflected the cost of those requests, not the exaggerated sums they appear to be asking the developers of popular reddit reader apps like Apollo for.

Yet another site succumbing to the enshittification of the internet.

That’s exactly the point. The app devs said they’re happy to pay for API access at—this is the important part—a reasonable price. But reddit has zero interest in offering that. This is not about reddit trying to save costs, this is entirely about them trying to price 3rd party apps out of business ahead of their IPO.

The bandwidth itself is relatively cheap. At an average 1kb payload per request, Apollo’s 7 billion monthly requests add up to about $500 on AWS (where, as far as I know, Reddit is hosted). The compute costs of retrieving and assembling the request data are much harder to estimate but they’re going to be the bigger…

This is the sort of thing I’ve been wondering about for a long time. The APIs that these third-party apps use are just, effectively, Web interfaces (usually something like SOAP or REST). So any time you open a forum in an app, you’re hitting up the site with dozens, if not hundreds, of Web requests.

Whales.

Mobile games are doing just fine.  Mobile adaptions of FPS aren’t doing great. 

FFVII: First Soldier should’ve definitely had a PC and Console release. The game was legitimately fun but was severely hindered by being limited to mobile. The limited screen size and touch controls hurt the overall experience. Around launch, Square even said they were going out of their way to prevent people…