• GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    It’s been broken since the 3rd party apps debacle. Thanks for fucking up the site out of pure greed, you self righteous cunts. If Swartz were alive today, he’d kill himself again over what they did to reddit.

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      2 months ago

      It’s been broken since the 3rd party apps debacle.

      Oh, reddit had these technical issues long before that. I remember regular downtimes. It’s just in the past we had 3rd party apps and their web app wasn’t as bloated as it is today, so at least reddit had good UX/aesthetics.

      But now both sides are ugly.

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        2 months ago

        I mean, it was indeed a hot mess in many ways, but it was also a mostly functioning online community. So functional it became a great source for information and individual opinions on just about anything.

        It could have been preserved and profited from with little effort, but some suits saw a bigger payday opportunity and tried to wring it dry, accidentally squeezed too hard, and drove a wedge into the community.