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Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 251 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Cool, now do the API and I'll consider not actively avoiding your website.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 149 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I won't. They'd have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 88 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Just let things die is my opinion. It’s much nicer here.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 125 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Nicer in many ways but also less active. I find myself posting a shit ton more just to make the activity I want to see. I made probably less than 50 posts on Reddit in my 11ish years before I left. Now I make that many every 48 hours

[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 76 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We appreciate your contributions :)

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

❤️

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Same.

I'm not a huge fan of lemmy, but I do like it better than what Reddit has become. If I had to pick today's lemmy or Reddit from 5-ish years ago, I'd go with Reddit every time. But that's not the options in front of me, so I stick with lemmy.

I also post a lot, probably too much, because I want to see more content, especially higher effort content. I posted pretty rarely on Reddit, so this is certainly more exhausting to use. However, there's enough people to make it worthwhile, so I'm still giving it the old college try.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I actually prefer Lemmy because it's less active. I browse Lemmy's version of r/All and I have more than enough content to keep me entertained for hours. Plus, when I find a popular thread, I can actually contribute to it and my comments aren't buried under 10K other comments within a few hours. I feel like I can actually communicate with the community here, instead of shouting into the void like on Reddit.

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[–] chevy9294@monero.town 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it's way too bloated.

[–] Encode1307@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn't connect on VPN, I left again.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (5 children)

So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 19 points 5 months ago

Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Not even the API. Just a usable page that doesn't feel so broken and bloated.

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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 147 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 93 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hate the fact that I'm only about 90% sure you're joking.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m not. It’s in the article.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Damn, they just can't miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?

[–] evident5051@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

Poe's law hits hard sometimes.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 138 points 5 months ago

So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.

Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 118 points 5 months ago (2 children)

beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.

That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.

Now...

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 22 points 5 months ago

"great, I got upvoted by reddit "blue" subscribers...this is so special :/" energy

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 109 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I've got all the awards we need right here.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 92 points 5 months ago

You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 91 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

People spend real money on reddit. What a bunch of loosers.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what I thought when I first saw gold back in 2010...

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.

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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's okay, Reddit. I don't post anymore.

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Deleted my 15 year old account. I'm not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.

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[–] ____@infosec.pub 62 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Still doesn’t fix the ill will from when they abruptly killed Apollo, in a stupid way that screwed both users and an indie dev who actually cared and had dedicated significant effort to the platform.

Also, I absolutely cannot wait for when Reddit itself becomes meme stocked. Somehow, both GameStop and AMC are still alive, but the crazies are back, and Reddit seems like an excellent candidate.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they're being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling "gold" (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can't give is the old-style reddit "gold" (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago

I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.

Then I realized awards was a scam all along.

[–] Argyle13@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago

Ok, we are not coming back anyway

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 46 points 5 months ago

Meh, it's just another publicly traded company now, it's just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm happy to be here

[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now? https://www.reddit.com

Thankfully you can still access the old "new" layout at https://new.reddit.com , and of course https://old.reddit.com still exists too.

I only go there for a few communities that don't exist here, but that is where we are at, at this point.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

Wow they are actually copying what digg did, and expecting a different outcome.

Edit: Changed DIGG to digg for correctness.

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. "Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they've kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years". An unnamed C staffer blurts out "I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let's just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!"

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"Genius! Who would'a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!"

[–] Moob@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I hate it when I’m punished for good ideas.

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[–] sfantu@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reddit sucks balls

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 months ago

I don't think the award system is the only place where they messed up...

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago

"rrred-dit"... that sounds familiar... 🤔

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago

Meh

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They knew it promoted karma farming. It helps them make money so I doubt this is an "oops".

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

🥱

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

lol

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