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The lululemon official account followed me. It felt dirty to have some corporate overlords spying on me and I couldn’t do anything about it
Currently you can view and manage your followers (which includes blocking) on iOS and Android. And it will be rolling out on the web around the beginning of September. Check out the original announcement, to see the details of how it works and learn more.
Edit: Forgot to add that our product team is working on building an opt out for followers as well. This should be coming fairly soon, so keep watch here and we’ll let you know once it’s live.
Can we go back to the message option and get rid of chat entirely?
Chat just makes Reddit more like Facebook.
Uh yea, thats what the investors are demanding and the admins don't get paid for things like "creative integrity" or "user experience".
Reddit is free, we are the product, the day they break old.reddit, RES, and non-reddit owned apps is the final canary in the coal mine to get out of dodge.
The day they end the api is the day I’m done with this platform. We can always use the api to recreate old.Reddit, without it we lose so much.
Every app I've tried, other than AlienBlue, is crap. If that stops working, I might have to go outside or something.
Holy shit, alien blue takes me back. The best replacement I’ve found (not perfect but it’s 99% what I want) is Apollo if you’re on iOS. I honestly had no idea alien blue still worked.
I worry that someday an iOS update or something will break it for good. It has stopped working with imgur for short periods, but has served me well for a long time. I will check out Apollo, thanks for the suggestion.
So I went back through my list of apps and downloaded it again. What ever happened to single hand mode? That was the iconic feature that I loved AB for.
Apollo isn’t perfect but it’s super customizable and still actively being developed. Dev is also receptive to feature requests so you could always ask for stuff that you miss from AB.
Yes this. Speaking as an OG redditor using baconreader and Apollo I will never be interested in chat. But I know I am in a small minority.
Apollo and old.reddit are the way to go.
Are we in a small minority?? The vast majority of Reddit are posts and comments, not chat.
100% of my chat experience is either spam or accidental messages intended as DMs that went into a void.
I have zero desire to actively chat with any redditor on the platform. If I wanted to have close contact with someone I met here, I'd go off-platform. That's not because chat is badly implemented or anything, it's just the nature of the site - much like how I wouldn't post my family holiday photos to linkedin.
Yes that's their goal since fb has many billions in revenue
Take something which is successful because it is unique (or was), try to turn it into a clone of something bigger to make more money. It’s very shortsighted and they can only get away with it due to the large community they built when it was unique. In a few years people will wonder why they use Reddit when they have other apps that do the same thing. I can’t think of a single platform that is still relevant after hitting the homogeny phase. Reddit has remained relevant due to its simplicity and lack of advertising. In addition to trying to be Facebook, it’s becoming an ad filled piece of shit. And as they said in the blog post they are implementing video ads. It’s sad, but it’s where we are now.
Literally the only people who message me are spam bots and the feature is horrendously useless.
I get mainly private messages asking about things related to the science subs I'm a part of.
Chat is where the spam crap comes in.
And it doesn’t work. I block one of my followers and the next day they are unblocked and following me
Blocking does nothing. All it does is block YOU from seeing what the person you blocked posts. Its better to not block people, as they can be posting things about you and you'll never see them. You can make a new post and they can spam the comment section and you won't even see them. It does the opposite of what you'd expect blocking to do.
imagine getting a restraining order and instead of that they give your stalker invisible superpowers
"To prevent you from seeing me, I'll close my eyes"
I honestly can't tell if the reddit team is somehow genuinely this braindead, or if they can't hire a PR person competent enough to successfully better sugarcoat user-hostile design choices.
Can we get rid of chat and followers? I really don’t want that in my Reddit experience.
Ewww. The “New” interface is ugly and garbage.
Unacceptable to have features that require the mobile app to manage. I hate the “followers” nonsense. The website says I have 7, the app, which I downloaded just to try and see them, lists two names. Broken and dangerous “feature.”
/r/assholedesign
When will the new followers notification be working again? I have gotten new followers all the time but for past weeks there has been 0 notifications about new followers. This has been addressed by many users in r/help multiple times but not one mention of it by admins.
Why does Reddit constantly insist on forcing its vision as a mediocre social media site on users? There's absolutely no reason that you can't implement these "improvements" for those who want them while letting the rest of us skip them.
Whenever you add a new feature (e.g. followers) include an opt-out from day one, on all platforms, no excuses. Similarly, whenever you remove an existing feature (e.g. nsfw content from r/all), include a way for users to opt back in. And if there's ever a case where this isn't possible, immediately explain why.
You know these are way too sensible requests for any giant to take into consideration. This is how underdogs that are keen to succeed act, not slow-moving behemoths.
Thats good news. I hope we can see it in browser soon
It's a little odd that to manage or opt out of privacy-invading features I do not want I have to use reddit on a different platform than I do.
Can you guys not just undo all of the terrible decisions that have been made and being us back to 2012 reddit?
Great then it will be easier to stop people from telling trans people to go kill them self.