So, they did everything that users said would kill the site and it... killed the site?

Good thing they already banned or drove out all the top human contributors. There's no one left to say “I told you so.”

This comment section is missing a big ol’

FUCK SPEZ

"Wait our traffic is down? I know! Let's give people more of what they hate!"

It was good. Long long ago. Entertaining. Infuriating. Educational. For the most part civil.

Now its mostly swamp. it's the trump era turd swamp. It's more a cesspool - swamps are great places - trumpville cesspool.

Ending anonymity is 180° out from its starting point. Taken over by corporate it's like everything else they 'buy' - for their profit.

Anyone actually uses Reddit search? That thing has been so horribly broken since the very beginning that some of the best subreddits (AskHistorians, for example) openly recommend using a standard search engine with the "site:reddit.com" parameter.

only let logged in users use the site

traffic declines

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I don't use reddit anymore because but sometimes a relevant thread comes up in a web search. But since they force you to log in they lost even the last bit of my traffic.

It seems that people running big techs are behaving in a consistently erratic way. There must be something behind it

Idk, I think that even in late stage capitalism demanding constant "growth" when they used to be one of the most visited websites of the entire internet is just delusional.

Fuck you u/spez and the bots you herd about.

I'm 70 and found Reddit about 7 years ago. Was wonderful. Ended up getting banned probably for commenting on the fat stupid incompetent pedophile rapist Donald Trump. Fuck em. Time to move on.

everyone already searches reddit by adding "reddit" to a google search. putting ads in the native search kind of confirms nobody was using it

Keep making it worse, that will surely help. I have a suggestion: how about getting your stupid ban-happy admins under control?

It's bad now that they increased the ad size in posts. Now you have to scroll more to see the first comment.

Oh Is it NNN again already?

Reddit's gonna reddit.

Shithole website

this will make people less likely to click a ad-link. no wonder for the past year they have been going after OF and people who are trying to earn money by directing to thier own site. reddit wasnt getting a piece of the aciton, so they increased thier filter sensitivity every time they do a sweep.

I already successfully block all Reddit ads. I use Old Reddit exclusively, as I cannot stand New Reddit.

So if Old Reddit goes, so do I.

I've just had it with the Reddit experience, forcing an algorithm on me was the end.

Maybe Spez should charge a smol fee per search. Then another lil fee when the user clicks a result. Then he could charge a small fee per minute of reading the linked result. Spez sure is smart!

Sounds like circling the bowl ever since investors became a thought

I hope Spez burns alive in a literal sense.

It's funny watching Reddit die because it's already been replaced by something better.

It just doesn't know it's dead yet.

Their search already basically didn't work. Who even uses it that putting ads on it will be seen?

Advanced Publishing are Reddit's largest share holder... It's owned by the billionaire Donald Newhouse ($26 billion), and his publishing empire.

There's a rightwing pro-Israel jewish magazine named Tablet magazine, run by Alana Newhouse.

Tablet magazine has received funds from pro-Israel organizations and (according to Wikipedia) has promoted products associated with Peter Thiel (who is involved in weapons and emergency information systems for Israel) and Bari Weiss.

I believe the Newhouse publishing empire might have a specific view of where they want Reddit to be on the issue of Israel-Palestine... And they might not want Reddit to exist or have a wide audience.

Turns out they've owned Reddit for 15+ years now. Sometimes when researching something you hit a dead end, or find facts against your argument and have to accept them and change your viewpoint.

Fuck Spez, let it crash and burn!

Lol fuck'em

Wow! Every time I see the wreck it takes my breath away... It has been preserved so well! If you look closer you can still see the ads they put everywhere on the search pages as a last ditch effort to keep it afloat just before it sunk.

This is as close as we go however, we will only trail our submersible along the edges of the outer hull, this is the resting place of thousands and thousands of bots and it would be disrespectful to disturb their grave....also you need to login to an account and eew.....

But it’s already full of ads…

Anyone remember when Reddit didn't have ads much at all and where there'd be an occasional ad in the sidebar, often there'd be a game instead?

How bout they test fucking right off?

Beautiful, good move, will go great with their helpful new algorithm. There's more ways to surface fun content now and have a blast, it's chock full of content and interactions and it will only get better and more profitable (which means more relevant) with these changes. So sad I deleted my account and am never going to post anything there ever again. Good luck with your big fancy social network, pigboy.

Having done everything in their power over successive years to ensure that even the most dedicated users of their platform feel unwelcome, Reddit sees traffic declining

I left reddit years ago, but I just checked my county's subreddit recently after some big news happened in my home country. The last post was made 6 days ago, subreddit was basically dead, traffic must be abysmal overall.