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Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won't be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How is the Reddit app at a 4.7 on Google's Play store, but all of the relevant reviews that pop up are 1's and 2's?

Google must be ignoring some reviews to calculate the average score.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

How long until old reddit is gone completely? Its a damn shame what they have done to that site

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Not at all bothered I am permabanned.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean the only DMs i ever got was transphobic bullshit because they were afraid of downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Several of my Reddit accounts had tens of thousands of karma, a couple exceeded 100k. I learned early on to never read any notifications/messages ever. I just navigate back to my recent comments directly and check replies in context, instead of a stream of disjointed messages and trolls being deadshits.

lol

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Lmao chat is one of the dumbest features they ever rolled out.

I love how their attitude is always "we made this useless feature, and instead of ditching it were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!"

Once again proving that the Reddit admins absolutely hate the fact that people use Reddit. They should just shit the site down already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

All in marketing. Can sell ketchup popsicles to women in white gloves with enough money thrown at it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!

It's not always the hated alternative that wins, hence why we're here right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Anything that benefits them, fuck the users.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How did they remove bad reviews, and on which platform? To my knowledge neither Google Play nor the App Store allows developers to do that, so it would have to be a more complicated situation with Google/Apple collaboration.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On both Google play and the apple app store you can report reviews for violating policy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, so either the reviews were all death threats, in which case I'm fine with them being removed, or Google/Apple is secretly collaborating with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

My guess is many could be removed under the guise of being off topic, addressing Reddit itself and not the app specifically.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How can they remove negative reviews?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Digg picked the right time for a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Reddit dude is involved in the new Digg sadly… Oh and they already are big talking AI for it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Alexis Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, is not Steve Huffman (Spez/current Reddit CEO). He's done some solid activism and charity work, unlike the piece of shit Spez. The fact it seems he's trying to distance himself from Reddit by trying to revive their former rival is some rich irony.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One of the first things Google did when it bought YouTube was to remove direct messaging, don't want people wasting time talking to each other when they should be watching ads.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.

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