Until they close it down…

  • Gork@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They don’t want you to read, they want you to scroll.

    It’s like they don’t understand what Reddit fundamentally is: a forum. It isn’t Instagram or Facebook. But they really want it to be because you can fit a lot of ads in that format.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a very good point. Website design made space for ads. I was just browsing yahoo.com on the Wayback machine and it’s amazing how much content you could fit in a 800x600 screen. Now my 4k feels not enough.

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      It’s clear they want to transform the site into another FB/IG clone, every design decision they’ve taken in years points at it