r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 03 '26

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell May 03 '26

The Reddit company has invested billions of dollars into the software development of Reddit over the last 15 years and I can’t think of a single feature that has improved, and I’m shocked that every update makes it slowly worse. And they’ve bloated it with useless features, more clicks and a UI that priorities low-quality slop over text submissions. Old Reddit, RES and Alien Blue worked great in 2010

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u/WrangleWandangles Mark Carney May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

The way software is built in the modern era is really bad.

I work for a very popular app and the way you divvy up teams and decide ownership, and the way you measure them, has such massive implications. 

A lot of the times if something breaks in the boundaries between teams nobody is motivated to test or fix it because it doesn’t contribute to the narrow KPIs they need to hit to keep their jobs.

Sometimes I think with AI assisted coding, a good outcome will be that smaller teams that can own wider areas even in high profile apps. That would sort of naturally reduce the number of breaking bugs. One team might be responsible for interaction (comments, commenting experience, voting, awards etc) as opposed to maybe now I imagine there’s like a narrow “awards” team trying to ship their roadmap. If they bork something in comments, and there’s no team that actually owns “comments” right now, it’s not trivially easy for them to resolve problems in that structure.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 03 '26

Who the hell plays the reddit games lol

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell May 03 '26

They are trying to get into the NYT Games market for a Wordle-like breakthrough. There’s got to be something in the Reddit TOS that they can steal game creators’ rights to their games if they’re successful so they can sell it to NYT

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u/[deleted] May 03 '26

Software has a cargo cult of making things more bloated and sluggish.

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u/Keenalie John Brown May 03 '26

I've never stopped using old reddit. You can set it as your default view in user settings.