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What are some example "general audience" features added these last 5 years?


- Realtime chat

- Design that is much less customizable via userscripts/CSS

- More emphasis on users rather than communities (enhancements to user pages, profile pictures that are displayed in comments)

- Garbage native media hosting alongside worse handling of offsite (youtube/imgur) media hosting

- Inline gifs in comments

- Algorithms that emphasize clickbait

- Algorithms that try to guess what you want to see rather than letting you tell it what you want to see

- Suppression of content deemed unsavory by advertisers

- Emphasis on mobile design over desktop design

- Backward incompatible changes


So, the userbase is increasing? Because those "15 years younger" are already on other platforms shaking their donkey.

Sounds like a great meeting summary but did it yield results?


Tons of mod tools built on top of shadow comment removals: crowd control, comment nuke, disruptive comment collapsing, contributor quality score, subreddit shadow bans via automoderator ...

Check your account here [1], you probably have removed comments you don't know about. Or comment here [2] to see how it works.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky


That obnoxious FB feed style ui they try to force you to use.


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