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.
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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.
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.
Good find. This is gem.
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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 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.
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.
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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.
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Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.
How is the Reddit app at a 4.7 on Google's Play store, but all of the relevant reviews that pop up are 1's and 2's?
Google must be ignoring some reviews to calculate the average score.
Could be because of people (or bots, whatever) rating but not commenting?
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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.
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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.
Alexis Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, is not Steve Huffman (Spez/current Reddit CEO). He's done some solid activism and charity work, unlike the piece of shit Spez. The fact it seems he's trying to distance himself from Reddit by trying to revive their former rival is some rich irony.
I’m just here to say fuck/u/spez
Alexis left Reddit suddenly with some weird excuse, too. I think he got word of the stock plan and immediately jumped ship.
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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.
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Who cares? It's reddit. Trash hole of the internet.
Sir/madam/???, this is a community called Reddit. This specifically is where people would care(though I agree with the sentiment).
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I just don't understand how PM became DM for so many people. I mean it literally says "PM" in the screenshot, yet OP still changed it to "DM" in their post.
I remember it used to always be PM, then one day everyone suddenly started calling it DM and I just don't know why...
My conspiracy theory is that big social platforms like Instagram and/or Snapchat are behind the change, because the P in PM is for Private and they are fundamentally against privacy, as they profit off your data, including likely analyzing your messages to serve you more relevant ads.
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lol just fuck off already, Reddit.
I have already deleted my reddit account - never go back,
How long until old reddit is gone completely? Its a damn shame what they have done to that site
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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.
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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.
By removing the language of "private" from the feature they can now sell your data without having to tell you about it
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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?
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Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn't even seem like it should be possible or allowed.
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.
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So, DM and Reddit Chat is not same thing ?
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.
Also DMs work on both new & old Reddit. Chat only works on new Reddit.
(Unless something has changed recently.)
That's probably a feature. They don't want old reddit to exist.
Oh, and some open source app you build by yourself and put your API key in only work with DM because those app is no longer maintained.
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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
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Digg will be removing the comment sections below the links to focus on link content itself.
Not at all bothered I am permabanned.
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