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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It was fine when there was three (some comments here say back when there was one…or two which I guess depends on joining point haha). But I personally found the balance between gold, silver, and platinum the sweet spot. Gold for really good posts, silver for posts that, while not as good as gold, were still pretty helpful/decent, platinum being the best of the three, where the post was so extraordinary it deserved more than gold.

    When they added more rewards it removed the whole flow. All of them were the most worthless, cringworthy memes, and a lot of them were given out for literally free. To make things worse, they were often misused as well, there were a ton of posts marked with the cringe “wholesome” award that were very not wholesome because the users awarding didn’t have any of the other free awards and couldn’t pay.

    Getting reddit gold beforehand was already having a perception of being “cringe” but I think the addition of the many “meme awards” only made things worse. I think it would have been better if a system was implemented where awards could have been voted upon to posts that truly deserved it or were considered “historic” in some way.




















  • I’m no longer in the sadness stage of grief, now I am angry. I have thought of all the stupid things they’ve done since I joined in 2018

    First they made the awful new layout

    Then they promised to implement css in new reddit, only to never do so

    Then they introduced too many award variations, and made it so people could get them for free, removing what value the awards had.

    Then they made customizable snoos, which while cute were uneccesary.

    Then they introduced, barely advertised, then killed reddit cspan. Never heard of it? Can’t blame you!

    Then the introduced NFT avatars.

    Then they did that awful april fools arg that was so hidden only a few did it and those who found the answer found it on discord. Also the answer was reddit was run on a literal potato which seems to be truer by the day.

    Then they did this API shit.

    During all that time where they could have introduced features that were useful to their app and fixing up the cruft with new reddit, they slaked off in order to increase profits. Only two features that were useful were ever introduced during 2018 - 2023: polls and gallery uploads. That’s it.

    So I am sad for the communities, but reddit itself? Nah.