It begins…
Found out via this post
Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.
Good, this will push more people to alternatives
More, yes, but still almost nobody…
The amount of people in the world is a pretty insane number, which makes “almost nobody” 8800 users visiting per day just on lemmy.world, and it’s still growing pretty fast.
I’m fine with reddit doing their shit for the masses, and the ones with a bit more critical sense coming here.45k monthly active users is already something
It’s not nothing but reddit claims about 270 million weekly active users. So it’s ultimately a difference of about 270 million (especially given that some active users here likely still use reddit and aren’t strictly a loss for them)
It’s a good thing though. The fediverse needs to grow a bit to feel less like a ghost town on less popular communities but when you grow too much you become a shitty community filled with bad decisions and poorly thought out compromises
Are the bots subtracted from that number?
You mean from the 45k? Hahaha… Ha… :(
Lemmy has a high enough user base to be entertaining and somewhat useful.
Mark my words. This is just testing the waters
They aren’t testing anything. They are just enacting a stealth twilight of old Reddit like they’ve been planning ever since they thought up the new UI.
People should talk about Lemmy more. Irl, on other social media, in game chats, etc.
Just sharing a personal experience here: I reached out to my country subreddit mods yesterday to ask if I could create a post about Lemmy in the context of the latest Reddit decisions preventing strikes.
They told me they would not allow it as it was self promotion, and that I should stop mentioning Lemmy in comments where people complain about Reddit.
Very frustrating when you see how active communities like !ich_iel@feddit.org is, as the subreddit mods promoted Lemmy during the 2023 strike
It just means the existing mods are more interested in holding on to power than for the wellbeing of their community, even if that means they’re unpaid disrespected jannies for spez.
Even though they could just make their own Lemmy communities, or ask to be appointed as mods of existing ones…
Mods want people to lord over, the more the better. There are many times more at reddit.
Fuck them. They’re literally part of the problem, and you listen to them?
I don’t listen to them, they are the ones who remove mentions to Lemmy on their sub. They already banned me in the the past for that, so this time I checked before hand
ich_iel on reddit still promotes Lemmy in the Sidebar, Automod comments under every post and a tab at the top of the page. The mods of the country sub refused to move, but most of them are dicks anyways.
Ich_iel mods are heroes
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The mods that stayed want to keep their power, they’re not going to allow links to communities they’re not moderating.
Mentioning Lemmy will get you censored on reddit.
Not in my experience. Just do it and don’t worry about it.
My guess, break existing old links on other sites so that they can show a graph with a drop in usage of less-ad-riddled way to access the website and drive more to the ad enabled views.
They already do that. www.reddit.com goes to the new ad-ridden useless interface.
Yes but on other sites where people have historically posted the shortened direct sub urls that used to go to old.reddit will now forward to new reddit or be broken according to the comments of the OP post. That’s the key difference here. Posts people made many years ago will now go to new reddit, which is why I suspect specifically attempting to manipulate user / site stats because even if their api prevents search engines from using it properly, there’s a wealth of already indexed links out there.
I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.
Like come on, you know that wasn’t an accident.
-.-
Fuck spez.
Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S
They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.
Ikr? How annoying is that?
Reminds me every time why this platform is crap
Removed by mod
I’m very disappointed about the removal of r/randnsfw.
I’m already less and less on reddit except for a few nieche subs. The day old.reddit is gone will be the last time I visit that site.
I’ve been back on lemmy for a month after a long break and it feels permanent this time. I like that I can generally replace /r/<sub> with lemmy.world/c/<sub>, that helps.
For what it’s worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I’m old and stuck in my ways. I love the old-timey feel of the “old” UI in light mode with endless scrolling turned on.
It’s called “Mlmym” and a lot of instances have added it. old.startrek.website works too!
That’s good to know, thanks!
Dbzero disabled it recently cause it was glitching and the code isn’t maintained anymore, hopefully it won’t happen on LW
For what it’s worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I thought you were joking, but nope, it’s real. Neat.
Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn’t know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I’ve always found stupid. So I don’t think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.
OTOH, if they’re low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
OTOH, if they’re low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
It’s generally desirable to remove old code and features to make the code neater. It’s also possible that some bug happened because of those features.
It’s usually better to not touch code that is working, it won’t become “clean” just because you deactivate some stuff and if you do try to actually remove code (to “clean” things, whatever that means in a setting bigger than a small project), good luck not breaking anything.
Source: oldtimer software dev
Code that exists still needs to be updated and maintained. It interacts with the rest of the code. Sure you can leave it lying around, but at a certain point the technical debt is going to catch up to you.
Man do I have news for you…
I mean I don’t like it, but the number of time I have seen crappy 20-30 year old code that’s completely shit, ingrown into everything else…
Maybe you can afford this in your personal projects but I have yet to work at a company willing to invest in that. Sure, a conscientious developer might clean up things they’re working on, but old code usually gets ignored until the pain of keeping it gets too great, until someone is forced to do something about it
Oh, sure, I’ve been there. Am there. And Reddit may have gotten to that point with these features where maintenance costs overtook the costs of removing them.
Well, if you like legacy sure go ahead
What do you mean?
Old code still needs to have unit tests, maybe they use libraries you need to keep patched etc
Better to remove
they even got rid of the login button lol. having a small userscript to insert the login button as html works tho as the method/css remains.
you will use the web 2.0 bloated javascript filled internet and you will like it.
