locking this since the AMA is now live. go over here to discuss it so your comments aren’t lost!
This sort of circus is what happens with communities led by corporate greed. I’m taking a deep breath and I’m letting go.
Any idea what time this is supposed to begin?
They didn’t specify. They literally just said we’re gonna do an AMA tomorrow. Chances are it isn’t really an AMA so much as a “press release” with pre-answered questions of their choosing.
In Australia ministers in parliament often ask their own side lame softball questions to give them a prompt to talk about how great they are. We call them “Dorothy dixers”.
“/u/spez why is reddit so great?”
The Verge reports the following:
CEO Steve Huffman is set to host an AMA about the changes on Friday; the company aims to start it at 1:30PM ET / 10:30AM PT.
I don’t see it happening. Reddit’s comments have been janky for 12 hours now. The site isn’t functioning proper. What a shock!
It’s going to be the greatest AMA since Rampart. I can’t wait.
Man, this whole API thing really makes me think of how much of a shithole the web is, still after all those years.
I basically have to buy a keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution if I have to buy a smartphone, all because the software for it is less than optimized crap that mostly just spies on you for the sake of ad revenue, and then leaves garbage all over the system it barely ever cleans up. A wonderful package for a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU paired with at least 3 GB RAM (if that’s even enough today) that you almost certainly can’t use with any comfort to browse the web because almost no one who pays big money to their devs cares that these devs build a proper mobile version of the website - which is part of nearly every webdev interview anyway, and for what, just to make me download the app anyway? What a fucking joke, honestly.
Web on desktop is just as much of a disgrace for all the bloat.
keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution
Are you talking about the pinephone, or are you literally buying keyboardless laptops?
@doctorzeromd @sailsperson I assume any smartphone - they often have comparable specifications to laptops but few keying options that don’t suck.
I was actually trying to call out basically every smartphone out there because they have to be packing multicore CPUs with at least 3 GB of RAM in order to be functional.
My current phone has 2 GB, and almost all of it is dedicated to the Android system itself, even without any shells (i.e. not MiUI or anything like that, which is basically Android OS plus something on top, eating up even more resources), and can be really painful to use at times. I seem to have won some performance back by switching to Via browser instead of the native Google Chrome, YMusic instead of the native YouTube app, and RedReader for Reddit (might kiss goodbye to that some time soon, as we all know) - the rest of the applications I use either lack a proper mobile version of the website (viewing some with the desktop option on is horrible), a lightweight alternative, or both. I also don’t have the memory to download every single app for the websites I use as they keep suggesting - more importantly, I don’t want to.
When I’m on PC, I use the web applications available for nearly every single thing I use - but oh no, I can’t do that on mobile, I need an app, which I’d have to update frequently, wasting even more space with the piss-poor solutions they go for in the name of profits.
Damn I’m getting worked up talking software and especially the mobile world.
And half of the apps are just a basic frontend connecting to the same web app anyway. I feel you. Linux for mobile is probably still decades away from being truly usable but I can dream
Funny you mention the resolution because in the 90s we had 640x480 which was way smaller than what cell phones have now and we still managed to have very functional web. Yeah the fonts weren’t as pretty and pictured had jagged edges but it worked and it was great!
We waited for our images to load one line at a time and we were grateful, dammit!
Exactly! Screens are so big now, they should pack so much real estate, but they just don’t most of the time, and it’s not even because of human eyesight limitations.
I don’t understand how or why modern interfaces have less information density than in 1997 on 640x480.
Or why they are less customizable.
Someone said the use just the middle of the screen display is based on some studies of what people can actually read or take in, but I don’t think I agree (hacker news isn’t as limited and it works for me). But why not have 60 percent of our physical screens display off white blank space. /s
@thomas It’s too late
You made my day
Glad i could help
Probably following the Apollo announce. Good luck with that, it’s probably too late.
I don’t think this will end well… People are going to grill him, which he honestly deserves.
Oh that is going to be quality entertainment.
That’s gonna be a disaster. I’m waiting to see how he spins the “why did you lie about your interactions with the Apollo dev?” questions.
There’s no way he answers that. There’s no way he answers anything. He will pose for a verification photo and then a team of lawyers and underpaid publicists will answer the questions they plant. This is all a stunt.
Redditors have no chill when it comes to minor stuff let alone this API debacle. It’s going to be a dumpster fire and I cant see this going well.
Isn’t Spez the guy that stealth edited some user’s negative comments about him?
Yup
As if those questions won’t be immediately removed
I bet it will be massively curated and full of planted questions.
Question: “u/spez, your administration of Reddit is like a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?”
Goodness, I didn’t realize this casual AMA was going to turn into a charged debate.
Yes I know it’s out of order, I don’t care
I wonder how many downvotes his comments will get.
It will set records
The most ama of all time!
Can someone please set up c/fuckspez, and scrape every comment from reddit today that contains the words “fuck /u/spez”?
Comedy gold in the making
Let’s not forget the time Spez untracably edited a user’s comment, only admitted it after being caught, and then joked about it. If he breathes, he lies.
It will be a dumpster fire. 🗑️🔥
Dammit, I want an official “dumpster fire” emoji now.
We need to petition the Unicode Consortium to make it so.
I’d sign that petition
I can’t imagine this going well at all. In fact, I’ll be avoiding the whole thing, and y’all probably should too. We wouldn’t want to get accused of brigading and give spez an easy out, after all.
It’s not on Lemmy? Guess I won’t see it then.
I wasn’t planning on going back to Reddit, but I don’t think I’ll be able to resist watching the dumpster fire 🔥
Reddit CEO, u/spez, will be here tomorrow to host an AMA about the latest API updates, including accessibility, mod bots, and third-party mod tools.
Note how they somehow left out 3rd party apps. Just mod stuff and accessibility.
Probably a typo.
(But really how many corporate meetings and emails were passed around to agree on that copy you think, it’s gonna be lawyers all-hands-on-deck tomorrow, probably one of the most expensive AMAs ever with all of those billable hours)
I assume that’s because their goal is to outline why third-party apps won’t be needed. The whole point of this drama is that Reddit wants to get rid of the third-party apps, so they are going to do everything to try to convince people why not having them will be fine.
Yeah them bringing up disabilities, I have a feeling we’re going to see some half-ass disability fixes come in in the next week. Let’s see them get through a full ADA audit (as a software dev who has done that it suuuuuuuucks. It’s needed, but we’re talking months of work
Maybe there will be a bit of empathy after all. Anyone who’s tried to use the official reddit app got a taste of what it’s like to have a disability /s
Okay for real, the amount of people who just do not give one single shit about disabled folks has been disgusting. Fine, you (other redditors) want to make fun of us ‘nerds’ who have been using reddit for 12 years? Fine. Not seeing the big deal about ADA compliance is a different thing altogether.
It’s like Microsoft removing text to speech on Windows, or Playstation banning specialized controllers.
I had a disabled roommate for three years. We were best friends, and I eventually got comfortable enough to joke about it with him. No offense was intended. I was only joking about how terrible the reddit app is.
Oh you misunderstand, I mean in my conversations on Reddit! Just pure vitriol from people over there saying anyone who uses 3rd party apps are stupid/neckbeards/whatever. Lol you’re good, it’s those people I’m annoyed at
Oh, okay! Glad I didn’t come off as insensitive. Yeah, behavior like that is incredibly frustrating to see!
Too bad they fired their dedicated AMA coordinator.
I agree with your parenthetical strongly enough to rule out a typo.
This announcement lists things that Reddit will humor, for now, and as a way of cheaply outsourcing niche and difficult problems. It clarifies that everyday third party apps were never intended to have a future with the platform. They’re simply an obstacle for Reddit’s most convincing path to revenue.
I might even have forgiven Reddit if it had said so up front, but the story they’ve been trying to spin – with prices that just happen to be orders of magnitude in excess of anything devs might afford – is outrageously insulting. I’ve never had my trust in a brand demolished so thoroughly so quickly.
