Who else is here because they are giving up Reddit?

[Eason85]

RIP NotebookReview forums.

I miss the days of having lots of individual forums where you could get expert advice on almost any topic. Then, most of them closed down due to competition from reddit consolidating. Now we can see why consolidation is bad -- thank goodness MacRumors has a variety of forums.

 

[Dancin-Ted-Danson]

Reddit became a dumpster of bots years ago. Glad to see it's demise is happening

 

[maflynn]

I’m not really a huge Reddit person and some of subs I frequent are now private due to the whole api brouhaha

 

[LeeW]

Rarely go near Reddit these days, just another toxic community I can do without.

 

[MacDaddyPanda]

Lot of search results for product comparison and review are at the top google results for a lot of reddit subs. And nearly all of them have been set to private. That's super annoying. But I get it. We'll see where this goes I guess.

 

[retta283]

I already had a distaste for Reddit dating back many years, but this debacle has sealed the deal for me. I don't want anything to do with that site... There is nothing healthy about a site's users having such great disdain for its owner and vice versa, the attitudes that result are often disastrous. I consider the CEO to be at fault here, though I fear he is right in that this will blow over.

What I will concede is that Reddit is a very useful repository of information, Google search results have become laughably bad and therefore Reddit remains the easiest way to find a lot of info. Even Yahoo and Bing smoke Google results from my experience. Never would've imagined. I don't want to participate in the site, but it is necessary for its wealth of information.

 

[LeeW]

What's the quick summary of what happened without referring me to a story to read?

 

[maflynn]

What's the quick summary of what happened without referring me to a story to read?

Reddit is pulling a Twitter in jacking up the cost to use their APIs and its going to kill off the small developers

 

[LeeW]

Thanks.

 

[dmr727]

Welcome to our little dysfunctional corner of the internet, Redditors!

 

[Yep.]

Reddit is one of the most toxic places on earth. The CEO is awful. The whole site is extremely one-sided both politically and ideologically, unless you are in very specific subreddits. The homepage is a cesspool.