It’s graphically very pretty, at least, and I’m gonna miss the place.

  • misterundercoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    1 年前

    As a RiF user for many years, I was completely insulated from the award bloat. Every time I see a screenshot of the official app, it seems so ridiculous.

    • doge_d_aspin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      1 年前

      For me RiF is the GOAT reddit client, its simple, fast, battery friendly. Hope RiF devs make client for Lemmy

    • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 年前

      Same. All awards would be ignored except for the gild symbols. All these other awards would fly past me.

      As it should be.

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        7·
        1 年前

        Some of them were given for free if you used the official app. I briefly used the official app before I found out about Apollo, and it gave me a Wholesome award to give.

        I ended up giving it to dragon porn.

    • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      10·
      1 年前

      If I recall, Apollo supported viewing awards but not giving them, and the option to view awards could also be disabled.

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        You could give awards with Apollo. I came to Apollo from Sync on Android, which could not be used to give awards. It was something I really appreciated, because I felt coins/awards from third party apps might help Reddit continue to let 3rd party apps live.

        We all saw how that turned out though.

  • LilBagOfBunnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    981·
    1 年前

    I mostly don’t understand why they made so many different awards. I thought Gold was a cool way of a user supporting Reddit while also showing their gratitude toward another user. After all, users cared about karma even though it didn’t really do anything so an award was just an extra “tip” of appreciation.

    It definitely lost its luster to me though once they changed it to awards and it became messy.

    • Lianrepl@kbin.social
      241·
      1 年前

      For me the current awards system was the number one reason to switch to a 3rd party app. I despise the fact that people paid money for this stuff and i hated the visual clutter.

    • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
      11·
      1 年前

      Reddit was originally about the content, with the users being an afterthought. Thats why there weren’t bios and avatars and all the other crap common amongst web2.0 social sites of the time.

      Gold started out as a little donation thing, with a few minor perks, like no ads, longer pages, seen comment remembering, and so forth. Nothing groundbreaking, just more of a “thanks for helping” thing.

      Sometime in the 10s, after the OG reddit admins left, and reddit became “independent” of condé, they started chasing user engagement. Profiles, avatars, bios, userpage posts, and, of course, all the award spam. All of it antithetical to what reddit was initially about.

      IMO the original vision of reddit was great. I keep avatars turned off on my lemmy user, because I don’t really care to see em.

    • TheBenCommandments@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      1 年前

      Unless I had an odd amount of credits, I always just gave gold or silver. I never paid actual money for any of it, but it was fun while it lasted.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 年前

      Some one had to.

      Especially the gold and plat that gave coins with them. But also, if you had Reddit premium (something else I never understood) you got a monthly supply

        • TheBenCommandments@infosec.pubEnglish
          19·
          1 年前

          The part about them giving away free credits you could use on awards is definitely true. I somehow came into thousands of free credits which I spent on awards to gild comments I really jived with.

          I refused to give any actual money to Reddit for them, but happily paid for Apollo Ultra, which explains why I’m here now.

          Fuck u/spez

        • somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 年前

          I received reddit gold a number of times. Never meant anything. The “lounge” was just a silent place you could access. No posts, no interactions. Just an empty private place. That was a long time ago to be fair. Maybe it became awesome. I doubt it.

    • CascadianBeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 年前

      I’ve read comments by people saying they enjoy the feeling it gives other people when they give gold. Of course, the person I’m thinking of was long before all the fuckery with the expanse of awards.

    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 年前

      I got heaps through the free Premium they gave after they acquired Alien Blue. I never used them and they’ll expire but I never paid for them

    • CascadianBeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      I’ve read comments by people saying they enjoy the feeling it gives other people when they give gold. Of course, the person I’m thinking of was long before all the fuckery with the expanse of awards.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 年前

    lots of people are giving away their coins. i have never received so many over the last couple of days.

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      All of them will be lost once they disable displaying them, like tears in the rain.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 年前

    At this point, it looks like some bizarre parody of itself.

    Reddit loves “borrowing” ideas that the community came up with (reddit gold, reddit silver, Secret Santa, Alien Blue, etc.) and run them straight into the ground, until they finally go out with a whimper.

    But to be fair, running a joke into the ground is a very reddit thing to do.

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 年前

    That is like, “Hey, MCDonalds is going bankrupt! Better buy all their hamburgers and give it to randoms!” but the hamburgers do not exist and he does it anyways.