That’s a no from me dawg.
Not in a million years.
I’ve been using redlib instance like https://redlib.catsarch.com/
Which handles multireddits if you have subs you want to browse without having to login to subscribe. And you can filter out users and subreddits.
Wow I thought the front ends stopped working over a year ago, what magic are they using?
The API is what’s closed, but you can still make a front end that scrapes the page and displays the results.
Welcome, finally, to the club.
uBlock seem to handle it just fine. There’s quite a fuss about it over there. Still 99% of users will deal with it without coming over here.
I’m using uBlock origin. Maybe it’s okay that 99% won’t come overnight.
It is hilarious knowing that their own leadership’s inability to understand that convenience is king will be what truly kills them. I think the reality is they are doing much, MUCH worse than it seems and this is actually the very last resort method.
Theres simply no way AI hasn’t completely obliterated the traffic they used to receive a decade ago.
It wouldn’t take much loss in traffic to make shareholders panic, or make the board panic in anticipation of that.
But shaking everything up to make everyone create an account, and try to shove everyone into an app, that does nothing to address the crux of the problem (maybe the opposite), and that is, they’re gonna lose users who simply want a question answered thanks to chatbots and google’s summary. This isn’t a unique predicament for Reddit, I mean, Quora and Stackexchange and a bunch of others are feeling the pain too.
They need to find a way to offset that, for every clickthrough they lose they need to convince one person to come to Reddit for some other reason, make it even more appealing as a place to be for other reasons.
They wanna lure new people in and get them to download the app as a foot in the door, but at the same time they’re nudging it towards Facebook Lite with vague algorithms and a lack of an all sort, not policing bots and stuff, and kids have shown to not like that.
Meanwhile, look at what Facebook did, they didn’t change Facebook, they just branched out through Instagram, kept doing stuff like that, they grab market share with different demographics through different apps, and I think without that, they wouldn’t be nearly as prominent as they are now.
Reddit’s just doing the dumbest, laziest, myopic moves imo. Walling themselves off from new users and at the same time slowly stripping away the kind of environment that would encourage a new user to step in and take a look
Apparently they’ve doubled their active users in the past couple of years, a step change from relatively flat growth
I can’t really fathom any situation where that’s not just bots
