Monetization at all costs it seems. They really want that IPO bag.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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The default site literally doesn't work on mobile anyway so it's not like it makes much difference.
The site worked well enough on mobile... Reddit would say it worked too well. Sites can't collect nearly as much data about users as apps can, so they've got an incentive to try and get people to use the official app. The app isn't good though, so the only way they can get people to switch over is by making the site worse, and forcing people to use the app.
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I'm reading this after I deleted my account. I have no regrets after reading this. Screw them.
I'm on desktop and checked through a browser and it is dead.
@lynny@lemmy.world can you fix the archive link, please? The one you shared tries to take a new snapshot :)
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Absolutely horseshit and so dumb. This just reinforces my decision to leave. I left the account open but I deleted all of my content (many years worth of posts and comments) on the way out the door.
Is it better to overwrite comments and then delete them, or is just overwriting with whatever message I want to leave then deleting account accomplish same goal of making comments useless.
Reddit doesn't (at least as far as I know) store a history of edits, so what is saved on the database is what your comment literally is. The reason people suggest overwriting comments is because the comment itself has value (for a variety of reasons), so overwriting the comment with something valueless (in the sense that it has no value for Reddit) is better, so the database itself is updated with that valueless comment.
After that whatever you do with the account is up to you.
They just keep digging