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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

we have had the first wave - and its gone well. second wave is incomming on or about the 30th - probably smaller, but no less committed (long term). after that its a war of attrition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

unrelated to your comment (sorta), but I just saw your comment update in real time after you edited it. I just thought that's a really cool feature and wanted to point it out :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

realtime comment subscriptions are pretty damn slick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe this will be gone very soon though once they remove websockets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

AFAIK this is true. But expect the site stability to be improved as a result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While it is neat I don't see it offering a good user experience.

The reason this shouldn't be in here, in a forum platform, is that if you go to the front page and try to read new it keeps bouncing up and down because it's constantly updating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ohh wow. Just logged into the desktop site. Even browsing Hot it bounces around. That's not good. I've been using Jerboa app and it's been fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say smaller, but I'm thinking a lot of people will realise that their clients actually don't work anymore on that date 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think they're underestimating how many people just won't use the official app. The people who use Apollo, RiF, Relay, etc. are pretty attached.

I know for me reddit is just the app on my phone that I press when I'm bored now. I figured when the app doesn't work anymore I'll just find entertainment elsewhere, which is how I found the fediverse. Now that I'm here the whole concept of decentralized interconnected communities has totally sold me on the project.

The problem with reddit, Twitter, twitch, etc. as I see it is that they're all just trying to profit off their users somehow. That's not conducive to fostering healthy communities of people. I think this whole thing is the future of social networking, take the big corps out of the equation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, it will be interesting to see what happens when the moderation really starts to suffer and subs are more and more full of ads, spam, trolls, and other kinds of problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then the third wave when they finally kill off old.reddit.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know I see that a lot of people love old reddit. I was a fan of it 10 years ago. When it switched to the modern layout, I think I was kind indifferent at first. But trying to go back to it after all these years, it seems like a downgrade in many ways. I guess I'm not seeing what they're seeing lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More than 3 comments in a chain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, I feel like a lot of people are forgetting about the wave coming at the end of the month. We’ll see plenty more people then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the 30th will be smaller, but the ones who do participate will be more likely to go indefinite as users who just can't stand the official app are forced to quit.