You may have just heard it from me first: I know a guy that knows a guy that says that the next upcoming self-inflicted injury on the Reddit site is an imminent removal of the “old.” prefix that has been used to un-fuck the interface and make it more bearably usable. They’re already bleeding out users, especially active content-creating users, so this will only accelerate evacuations of the carnival tents as the circus fire spreads.
Someone needs to back up what they can. That site truly has some solid faq posts given the mass die-off of most forums.
I contributed 15+ years of content and moderation to Reddit, which they made private (not available to the public), because I promoted a peaceful protest of the Billionaire’s Summer Camp. It’s where the billionaires give the media there marching orders, AKA Operation Mockingbird.
Of course they didn’t delete it, they just made it not public, so they can continue to use my data to sell to dystopic tech companies to train there A.I. I didn’t make a complete backup of my data before I was suspended, and now it’s lost to me. I was able to recover a lot using the Way Back Machine, but it’s slowly being erased too. The only copy I reliably have is completely offline.
Some of the best fixes or solutions I’ve found have been in niche or dedicated subreddits.
The site as a whole is fucking cursed but more narrow, dedicated hobby subs tended to be far better.
Gonna miss it, forums are fun but always too broad imo, I liked having everything aggregated.
Same. I might also add that the r/banjo subreddit was less friendly towards racists than the Banjohangout forums.