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btaf45, 2 years ago to RedditMigration in Inside Reddit's path to an IPO, where employees see 'thrash' from constant pivots and say more managers may leave amid a flattening

Reddit has been bloating itself with new features that nobody has been asking for

Exactly. Almost all their "exiting new features" have been subtracting value and turning the site into shit. That's why I left, not because I care about the API. I don't understand why they kept paying people to make reddit worse. They should roll back their source code to 10 years earlier.

btaf45, 2 years ago to RedditMigration in What's your opinion on cross-posting?

[One potential solution to this would be automated cross-posting]

You've just described Usenet, which had this feature 40 years ago

btaf45, 2 years ago to RedditMigration in Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts

Google is doing nothing with their Usenet archive. Hopefully they haven't destroyed it.

btaf45, 2 years ago to RedditMigration in Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts

So at this point, what is Google supposed to even serve?

Google has the entire Deja News (Usenet) archive, more valuable than Reddit except for the older age. And they don't let you access it anymore.

btaf45, 2 years ago to RedditMigration in Call to action - renewed protests starting on July 1st

I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives

Me too. I am actually tiring of all these Reddit 'call to arms'. Just leave Reddit already.