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points by shevy-java 1 day ago | 0 comments

It is not though. Moderators aren't as crazy on HN as they were on reddit.

The interface is also worse. I preferred old.reddit.com. Hackernews has this weird "you post too much" limitation, which is so annoying.

Reddit meanwhile killed old.reddit.com anyway; logging in defeats the point of using reddit. Things always get worse - and never seem to get better.

[–] _nobody 1 day ago

Reddit is not crazy because of moderators. It’s crazy because it attracted the wrong crowd and gave them all the exposure they can dream of. Have you checked r/popular? It is filled with memes, celeb gossips, aitah posts, random web links about trump, twitter screenshots about Reddit posts.

R/popular used to be an interesting place to discover new forums. But now it’s just a handful of subReddits showing up again and again - Reddit is just a pigpen, with the same mud slinging by the same pigs.

[–] ProllyInfamous 1 day ago

>killed old.reddit.com

The recent login-required (to use old-reddit) is stupid [0].

For now, just use this tip: `www.reddit.com/r/RedditYouWant+RandomCharactersHere`

and then your UI will be similar when browsing. Be sure to replace "RandomCharactersHere" with something obscure, or else /r/RedditYouWant will overflow with undesired content.

e.g: <http://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterrace+fuckUspez123>

e.g: <http://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterrace+PCBuild> (does not require login, yet)

[0] I go back to the SA>Digg>Reddit transitions, with my oldest (abandoned) /r/account [1] dating to 2007. #Return2RSS

[1] Hey /r/Admin(s): yeah, it's me, Rita... howdy you fatcat bayarea phucks

[–] paxy 1 day ago

Moderation is better but the discussion itself is fast devolving into low-effort groupthink.