It’s shocking how uninspiring Reddit is as a thing today as it was a few years ago. Sure, there’s some more work done on new.reddit.com and the mobile app and stuff, but the site as a technology has had few (if any) visible transformative addition for the vast majority of its users in forever.
It does scale better. The uptime is better – I don’t know if you guys used Reddit way back, but it went down a lot, had all kinds of crazy bugs showing up as people pushed changes into production with limited testing. They respond quickly when something does break. I would guess that there is some efforts to avoid network attacks (which have happened) and abuse. They build some monitoring infrastructure.
I mean, those don’t make Reddit look different, but they do matter.
Some of that would also probably need to be done for a larger Fediverse.
It isn’t the lack of new features that’s a problem for me. Sure, it’d be cool if some feature that I really liked came out, but I was okay with things on the feature front.
I don’t really like the changes from how things had been operating, though.
It’s shocking how uninspiring Reddit is as a thing today as it was a few years ago. Sure, there’s some more work done on new.reddit.com and the mobile app and stuff, but the site as a technology has had few (if any) visible transformative addition for the vast majority of its users in forever.
It does scale better. The uptime is better – I don’t know if you guys used Reddit way back, but it went down a lot, had all kinds of crazy bugs showing up as people pushed changes into production with limited testing. They respond quickly when something does break. I would guess that there is some efforts to avoid network attacks (which have happened) and abuse. They build some monitoring infrastructure.
I mean, those don’t make Reddit look different, but they do matter.
Some of that would also probably need to be done for a larger Fediverse.
It isn’t the lack of new features that’s a problem for me. Sure, it’d be cool if some feature that I really liked came out, but I was okay with things on the feature front.
I don’t really like the changes from how things had been operating, though.