Reddit is removing the DM feature
Reddit is removing the DM feature
Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won't be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.
lol just fuck off already, Reddit.
I'm starting to see them banning me as a blessing. Spez is running that site into the ground. Guaranteed by the end of the year it's just gonna be "X²" or smth.
he got what he wanted out of reddit, the 249mil in stocks.
I have already deleted my reddit account - never go back,
I just went and checked, and the reddit app has a 4.7 star rating on Google play store, yet when you go read the reviews, they're all 1 or 2 stars.
The official Reddit app is an exercise in travesty. Any third party client for either Android or iOS in the past was better the official solution is even now. It's slow, bloated and UI looks like it's designed for toddlers in mind.
Digg will be removing the comment sections below the links to focus on link content itself.
Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn't even seem like it should be possible or allowed.
google probably allows the reviews to be astroturfed by indian spammers.
My guess is that Google recently devalued the negative reviews from the API fiasco because enough time has passed. The reviews are (probably) still there, but those 1 star ratings are no longer in the "average" shown to users.
Yeah.... Big tech is rotten to the core.
Not trying to defend Reddit here, but what's the functional difference between a chat and DMs? How is one better or worse than the other?
For me, it's that the app I use does not have the chat feature. I'm 99% certain this is just an attempt to push out the revanced users
DMs are for directly messaging someone as opposed to commenting on a thread which would be public conversation
reddit chat on the other hand is for bots so that's where you get your spam
So, DM and Reddit Chat is not same thing ?
chat is more public, and prone to spammers. PM/DM is a private message to someone that the public cant see.
No, I had my chat hidden because I primarily used old Reddit, and so I pretty much never looked a it. Made 0 sense to me. If somebody wanted something in private, they can send me a DM.
I didn't even realize people used the chat on there. When it rolled out, it was almost exclusively bots lol
it was for bots, still but barely, i think they gave up on it.
No, they're two different communication methods. To be fair, it does seem weird to continue maintaining two forms of DM, but also I liked the old school DM style vs the newer realtime message style, personally. I guess I like the distance from strangers.
Maybe this applies to some. But consider the conservative whose stomach does a flip flop whenever they just see a fat woman, a trans-person, or a black man.
They hate that flip flop, and the only way they think it'll ever go away is if you remove those people from society.
One of the first things Google did when it bought YouTube was to remove direct messaging, don't want people wasting time talking to each other when they should be watching ads.
true but reddit chat is still there
Good find. This is gem.
That was such a good read. As an older millennial myself, it hit home particularly strong.
Really appreciate you linking that, like the other user said, it spoke to me.
Lmao chat is one of the dumbest features they ever rolled out.
I love how their attitude is always "we made this useless feature, and instead of ditching it were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!"
Once again proving that the Reddit admins absolutely hate the fact that people use Reddit. They should just shit the site down already.
i did originally used with other person on reddit, with a job specific sub. that was about it, and every other time was a spammer trying to contact people.
It's the Late-Stage Capitalist way.
enshittification actually.
it may surprise you how many people use reddit for personals and porn
everyone on tumbler went to TWITTER and reddit for porn, and then OF. imagine the amount of users will disappeared if they banned porn. there were other forums, pics like subs that had regular porn you see on reddit but they were so unregulated they have discussion and imagery about CSAM and beastility.
I hated both features honestly. I'm there to converse in public, anything you say you can add in a public reply to one of my comments. If it was ever used for honest chat or messaging, I never saw it.
i Used PM alot before Trumps first term, and somewhat during him to. i stopped once i started getting into arguments with people about a certain they were doing wrong(like how a dude was trying to apply to same company job at different times or different position, i was saying there is no way they would hire you once you get rejected, he was deadset on reapplying no reason other than how convenient it is for him) and i was getting warnings. i do it doesnt clutter up the subs, that would flag my account as a spammer originally.
I used to use it when I wanted to impart a little secret to another Redditor, without alerting the entire world.
For instance, I found a cool, lesser-used auction site that often had good deals on guitars. If I ran across someone whose guitar had been lost somehow, or who couldnt afford a new guitar, I would DM the auction site, and ask them to keep it quiet. I didn't want to announce it publicly, and alert the entire world to it, and ruin it.
But then how can we ask for nudes? /S
I don't mind DMs for one-off things. Like if I see something sketchy and want to tip off a user without alerting the sketchy one.
Also, everybody already owns a named subreddit that they mod, don't they? So can't you just send modmail there and still sidebar the chat in lieu of modmail DMs?
DMs had their uses, for example RemindMeBot cannot work over chat because there is no API.
It was useful for asking questions that neither you nor the other person would want to put in a public post. For example, someone posted a picture in the bad real estate sub that looked very familiar, and I sent a DM asking "is this X location?". I might not want people to know I'm familiar with X location, they might not want people to know they're familiar with X location, but maybe we're both ok with each other knowing.
But I'm pretty sure its main use was sending hate to people without getting banned.
I would use it for some video game LFGs. I wouldnt want to post my game name in a public forum and have my game account be flooded.
were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!
It's not always the hated alternative that wins, hence why we're here right now.
Anything that benefits them, fuck the users.
All in marketing. Can sell ketchup popsicles to women in white gloves with enough money thrown at it.
I mean the only DMs i ever got was transphobic bullshit because they were afraid of downvotes.
Several of my Reddit accounts had tens of thousands of karma, a couple exceeded 100k. I learned early on to never read any notifications/messages ever. I just navigate back to my recent comments directly and check replies in context, instead of a stream of disjointed messages and trolls being deadshits.
Digg picked the right time for a comeback.
Reddit dude is involved in the new Digg sadly… Oh and they already are big talking AI for it.
How can they remove negative reviews?
mastodon did it recently too
devs (reddit) can flag reviews they think are against ToS, then it's up to google to decide what to do with them
With money all things are possible.
What's the difference between the two? I haven't used reddit since the api shit and I don't remember seeing 2 separate messaging options before that.
private messages as its called, when you directly send a message to someone, nobody else can see it. a chat is public and its possible to be join in the chat.
That makes sense, thanks
By removing the language of "private" from the feature they can now sell your data without having to tell you about it
I did guess that much but I am still interested on what others were talking about and why is chat worse than PM, feature wise.
And when that doesn't work, they'll change it to Fanmail.
Yes this is substack. They will mail you daily if you sub.
How did they remove bad reviews, and on which platform? To my knowledge neither Google Play nor the App Store allows developers to do that, so it would have to be a more complicated situation with Google/Apple collaboration.
they probably allow astroturfing, alot of reviews sites do that.
Not at all bothered I am permabanned.
Makes sense tbh, having two separate systems of private one-on-one communication wasn’t that logical.
im surprised they even kept it this long, considered even bots gave up on it.
It makes sense if you want to force users to use the app. It's what put the nail in the coffin for facebook for me.
The patched 3rd party apps were the first that came to my mind... Gladly I barely use the DMs feature, even less the chat feature lol.