Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.
Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.
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Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth
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Uhm, didn't they block every crawler except Googles?
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Huffman: "Is it our shitty policies towards users, AI developers, and moderators that caused our growth to show down? No it must be Google! Even though they are ranking us higher than we deserve in their search results!"
First off all, what an idiot. Second, you made the deal with them, ya fucking idiot!
Third, I've noticed when I go to reduce from a search engine result, the UI is horrible (because I'm not logged in). Like, significantly worse than it used to be several years ago when I've wasn't logged in.
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My browser extension that forces old Reddit is essential for this reason. The new UI is a cluttered mess
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I refuse to use the new site, its crap. And on old. from mobile, it always opens images and videos in a new tab with the new interface, its worthless!
if I have to use a reddit page from work, I always change it to old.
when that old. stops working, I will never visit that site again
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On iOS, “Sink It” makes running into a Reddit page palatable again.
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"It's everyone except me at fault!" - Steve Huffman
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They would like to have you call that the "golden parachute".
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Orrrrrrrr, and hear me out......you decided to do AI banning, where bots ban humans, with no human oversight, and you assume that somehow the humans will flock to this platform that becomes increasingly hostile towards it's users.
Then you sit back and wonder why you're not growing.
Humans like staying where they're appriciated. You're showing that you appriciate money over humans. Now you blame google. I'm not one usually to root for google, but I hope they pimp slap spez across his stupid little face.
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Not only that, but they actively hindered any external tools. If you're Blind and Reddit's accessibility isn't good enough? Tough luck.
Whereas back in the day, someone might have built a more accessible app, if Reddit hadn't had one.
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The AI moderation was it for me.
The only way reddit is useful to me now is for finding user's answers to questions using a google search. For which I do not need to login or contribute to the site.
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Honestly such a poor excuse given literally every other google search yields reddit as a top result.
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Huffman and Co. are apparently oblivious to the fact that Reddit is and has always been a niche "social media" platform. They're more closely related to forums than mainstream social media.
I'm just making wild assertions here but somehow I think that the thing I liked about Reddit is also the thing the average TikTok/Insta/Snapchat/Facebook user does not like. That being that Reddit is mostly text based and requires lots of reading and writing (if you want to interact on any meaningful way). The only other thing they offer is meme scrolling and that can be done pretty much anywhere.
Adding any substantial user growth would require basically abandoning their entire format and would have a minimal chance of success at best.
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I mean that is why the new reddit page is so less information dense and image-heavy. The app also implemented swiping to get you to mindlessly scroll through memes, often into algorithm-recommended subs you're not even subscribed to. It's all an attempt to move the average content toward low-barrier slop thats easy to consume and pad their engagement numbers.
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Ah. So they do recognize the problem and are going with the worst possible strategy.
Trying to compete in the field of "digital landfills", which is already completely saturated, seems like an incredibly stupid idea but what do I know.
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This is just attention grabbing language for something that really isn’t even a problem for Reddit. The longer recent trend of stunted growth could be cause for concern, but the actual numbers are something like they got 101.6 million unique visitors instead of their projected 103.4. That’s nothing. They’re talking like they’re in free fall. It could be the start of a trend that could be bad for a public company, but realistically, what we’re all hoping to see isnt what this article is actually telling us. Unfortunately.
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I see reddit links in my searches. Sure as heck don't click on them.
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Maybe instead of blaming Google, Reddit should stop pandering to Nazis and condoning zionists committing genocide.
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Lol, what, reddit is everywhere on google. It is me who clicks anywhere else though.
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Reddit: Let's act like trash, basically be the reason Trump became president in the first place (in 2016) by letting his toxic subreddit take over /r/all (seriously, the entire /r/all was filled with that one goddamn subreddit full of lies and bullshit), and allow mods to make bots that silence actual discussion on subreddits by silencing any dissent, no matter how rational or well-intentioned, as well as disallow anyone who is new and has no karma to post, thus making any new user unable to post, period.
Fuck reddit. Fuck reddit up its garbage pile of trash ass.
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Yeah and they still crushed the ER.
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There are better decentralized alternatives to this site that aren't controlled by corporate interests that function almost identically to this site.
If we post about it then we get banned tho.
I think i can postt this:
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If you think about it:
In the meantime, spez totally trashed his site, destroyed valuable communities and pushed away the mods that keep the place clean. Really, really great business strategy there.
The really amazing thing is that spez's planet-sized ego created the whole user exodus. People were willing to pay a monthly fee to continue to use the site ad-free via our mobile apps. Hundreds of other companies remove ads when people pay fees, but all of that revenue is just gone along with a big chunk of contributors because spez had a tantrum.
At this point Spez's idiocy is common knowledge.
The whole 3rd party app debacle cemented it.
Reddit sold access. For short term gains. Because the quarter needed more money to beat the previous quarter.
If this isn't a leopard eating their face moment, I don't know what is.
anyone with a tenth of a percentage of business sense could tell you a business that produces nothing but eyeballs to advertisers will be a massive failure if said business does anything to piss the owners of said eyeballs off.
and experts are confused why traded-on-the-markets social media companies are in freefall.
Capitalism will sell you the rope to hang it.
Basically Reddit has now exported being confidently incorrect.
At least on actual reddit you could scroll down and find the actual answer. Some of those AI summaries are hot garbage.
CEOs rarely end up with nothing, unfortunately
Would love to see him be forced to sell his corny fucking doomsday bunker
Yeah that's exactly it. I no longer use reddit. when I do searches reddit does come up. But I don't need to go onto reddit because AI summarizes things. And I skip reddit anyways in the search results.
spez has too much money to care.
What's the point of being Uberwealthy if you can't just do whatever you want, whenever you want?
People keep quoting that Musk gave DT $250million to support his campaign, like hell... Musk bought Twitter and ran it into the ground to support DT's campaign, that was far more significant, and far more costly than a mere $250M.