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[Robsoie]

That api re-pricing for 3rd party apps to be able to launch requests on reddit servers seems to me an odd cause to fight for.
But anyways, a 2 days "let's go private then resume work as usual" sounds just as impactful as a fart in the ocean. If for them this re-pricing was so much important they should have gone down much longer if the goal was to push their users to reddit alternatives.

[taat]

It looks like there aren't any reddit alternatives available on the short term that could handle a really big flood of users. I think there may be a bigger blackout when the changes actually do pass, and anyways it at least raised a lot of awareness.
And while 90% of the userbase may remain on reddit's official apps forever, that 90% was never the important part at least for me. I just hope the migration doesn't head to discord, since it's really one big information black hole

[TamerVirus]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Reddit admin decided to sack some ‘rogue mods’ and replace them with more compliant ones during or after this.

[MaxTheFox]

I like Discord as a chat app but it utterly sucks as an information repository because it's invisible to search engines.

[Magmacube_tr]

The thing is, such a large social media platform doesn't falls that easily. Reddit will survive and be relatively okay, but lose substantial ground and monopoly. There will be competitors that freely allow 3rd party apps, after all.

[King Zultan]

I still don't get how Reddit is so popular I find the interface on it a pain in the ass and I can never find anything on it.

Also looking at it on a phone is a pain, if I wanted their dumb ass app I would have downloaded it, stop bitching at me for not using it.

[MaxTheFox]

I still don't get how Reddit is so popular I find the interface on it a pain in the ass and I can never find anything on it.

Also looking at it on a phone is a pain, if I wanted their dumb ass app I would have downloaded it, stop bitching at me for not using it.

iirc it blew up at a time when its then-competitors like Digg (and traditional forums) were faltering, because for its time it had a better UI and features, and thus managed to claw out a near-monopoly, then kind of... coasted along once a critical mass of users was achieved. Then of course they got complacent and shot themselves in the foot, as social media companies are wont to do. Hubris is the main killer of such services.

[Rolan7]

I still don't get how Reddit is so popular I find the interface on it a pain in the ass and I can never find anything on it.

Also looking at it on a phone is a pain, if I wanted their dumb ass app I would have downloaded it, stop bitching at me for not using it.

This seems to be why so many people use third-party apps to access it, which is the crux of the recent issue.

I like the Reddit model even though I haven't posted in years.  It seems to make decent communities (as long as they don't grow too large to moderate) about specific topics or places.  I'm the kind of casual user who uses the app and website, and just reads posts for troubleshooting and videogame advice.

*I* am monetized, like most casual users/lurkers.  Reddit seems to be attempting to monetize the content-creators who draw people like me to the site, which is a choice.  let's see how it works out for them.

[Robsoie]

The popularity of reddit comes from it being one of the biggest (in amount of users) forum system with subforum about any kind of discussion type and specifics subjects, so you're bound to find one with a subject/discussion that interest you. Also because it's popular it means there's a lot of informations and wiki that tons of people have contributed too.
And that's probably why the "blackout" backfired at some point because the mods that setup their subreddit to private in fact blocked those informations and wiki access to the users despite not owning any of that, they should just have made their board read-only instead.

Regarding the interface, old reddit is very usable (and fortunately still exist) , the problem comes from the new "mobile" interface they did a few years ago and set as the new default , and frankly that new UI is complete crap on PC.

[dragdeler]

I should compile a list with all games that came out as early access, when, and when they got their full release if they did by now... hell you make that thing exhaustive and up to date you have an actual reason to generate traffic and have a little admoney on the side.

[Magmacube_tr]

DF magma is 2170 kg/m³ based on comparison to water in filled minecarts.

Did this guy call me fat?

[Ziusudra]

Well, muscle is denser than fat (and fat is less dense than water) so really calling you beefy.

[MCreeper]

Pondering on metamorphoses of player character in Sunless Sea.

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Go to Anthe, replace PC's skin, eyes and several organs with clear crystal. That already makes PC one of the Neath's most disturbing creatures.
Go to Chapel of Lights and attend to all lessons. They cut off PC's head, flay him, fill the skin and head-skin with wax and put them back together. Crystal organs are allegedly thrown away, but they are still around. Now PC is an animated pile of wax encased in crystalline jello.
Finish it off with going to Scrimshander and paying for departure with a finger five times. Oddly enough, having no fingers on a hand has no adverse effects.
Not quite sure if those are all of them.

Zubmariner really went overboard in many ways.

In Sunless Skies those were replaced with collection of brain parasites. I believe PC can simultaneously have two with a brief intrusion of a third. Partially replaced,

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since in Blue Kingdom PC can also get butchered alive, then pay cutthroat prices to put himself back together.

[Eric Blank]

out of context that sounds like some weird fetishy shit.

[TamerVirus]

Anything can be weird fetishy shit if you think about it, ya know!