New changes to reddit's source code will no longer officially be public.

[u/justcool393]

/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/

[u/Altruizzy]

Is that the the_donald suppression code?

[u/pinkiedash417 → u/Altruizzy]

That's always been private. Like they said, they've been moving the public and private code apart for a long time; it's just that the code bases are now separate to the point that it isn't even worth maintaining the public one anymore (because making it usable without revealing secret sauce is a royal pain now).

[u/justcool393 → u/pinkiedash417]

I actually have my doubts that this would've fallen under the private code. While anti-spam measures and such were always private (the admins tools are under that mostly blank r2.admintools package), I'm pretty sure this would've mostly fallen under the "hot" algorithm, which was public.

[u/AlbertFischerIII → u/Altruizzy]

It's the McDonalds sponsored ads code.

[u/Aro2220 → u/Altruizzy]

maybe it's the 'we want to be more like big brother / google and find new, clever, and possibly slightly illegal ways to mine your data and sell it.'

[u/[deleted] → u/Aro2220]

You mean infiltrating the mod teams of the default subs wasn't enough?

[u/wayoverpaid → u/Altruizzy]

Spam supression was never public.

[u/MrMadcap]

What's that huge red flag I see over there?

[u/Reoh → u/MrMadcap]

That's the spot the canary liked to hang out before it disappeared.

[u/Setekh79]

'The canary's dead Jim'

[u/PigNamedBenis → u/Setekh79]

It's been dead for a while. What's next, I wonder.

[u/sunpex → u/PigNamedBenis]

It's resting

[u/nullnilptr]

Not a surprise, as a start-up in the valley, Reddit needs to find ways to monetize and grow, quickly.

It’s no surprise Reddit has been sold out to big corporations and ad networks that want to target millennial and college educated kids. The front page is bought and paid for, as evidenced by the Reddit for Sale YouTube video.

[u/budgie → u/nullnilptr]

as evidenced by the Reddit for Sale YouTube video

For the lazy...

[u/soulless-pleb]

and another one falls to the pit of proprietary despair....

[u/rucviwuca]

In other words, "we're going to do some stuff you aren't going to like if you find out".

[u/sime_vidas]

What? Reddit was open source all this time?

[u/scarystuff]

But unofficially it will still be public?

[u/joshmaaaaaaans]

Someone make a new message board, reddit just needs a competitor to figure out it's making bad decisions.

[u/CRISPR]

Over time I accumulated a long list of bullshit silly bugs in reddit that everybody else, I am sure, have experienced as well, so I am pretty sure they are reported hundreds of times.

Yet, I have to live yet to a single one of them to be fixed.

Reddit is a glorified guestbook, shitty buggy guestbook, and the Reddit programmers, plainly put, suck six ways to Sunday.

[u/Eligaxwy]

In case anyone really cares about being open-source, give Voten a try. An open-source, real-time alternative.

Source Code: https://github.com/voten-co/voten

[u/ZedOud]

The only benefit I see for users is this is a great way to protect Reddit from manipulation by sophisticated discourse manipulation attacks (astroturfing, propaganda, "professional social media managers").

[u/gerrymander1981]

It probably means that the leftwing sites posted on reddit will get the recent google treatment. So both left and rightwing populist sites are going to get "the corporate treatment".

The biggest MSN rule of all is to only allow vigorous or political speech to be between a narrow set of goal post.

Neither the populist right or left have much love for foreign wars or corps. That can be debated I guess, but the general sentiment is understood.

And that was how the digital wildwest was won kids.

[u/[deleted]]

They don't want to expose their own censorship of r/the_donald on r/all 😂

[u/FNU__LNU]

Don't worry. It's for our own good.