Reddit @lemmy.ml forgotmylastusername @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

Old reddit has removed the login fields

It now redirects you to the new site login page. There's no way to sign up with out an email anymore(?) It was only possible on the old site.

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Leave Reddit. Why is anyone still there.
- Reddit is terrible as a website. But it still has the communities that developed there over years, and they are an invaluable resource. They are definitely positioning themselves to pull a Digg, but until the Reddit-killer comes along with a mass exodus (and it doesn't look like it's gonna be Lemmy unfortunately) access to those communities will entail dealing with reddit.
  
  I still look at Reddit from time to time, but I don’t see a need to sign in at all. There’s no use contributing anymore
  
  Don't bother even giving them your traffic, just use a redirection extension to LibReddit or use Stealth
  
  what does "pull a Digg" mean?
  
  Digg (a link aggregator very much like Reddit) started pulling similar shit and everyone left for the alternative, which was Reddit at the time.
  After everybody left Digg, Reddit became the default and after about 15 years they are doing the same things that drove people away from Digg
  
  To rapidly lose your userbase to another platform, due to controversial changes to the website.
  
  Named after Digg, which lost most of its userbase to Reddit and is now a shell of its former self.
  
  Reddit was great as a website, but they decided that they needed to improve it, so now it's terrible.
  
  There will never be another digg to reddit type migration again. The companies that have captured the majority of Internet users are far too entrenched now, and the average internet user isn't interested in building a community any more. The average internet user is a TikTok user now.
- Professional communities, local communities, niche hobby communities, each of which don't have critical mass here (yet)
  
  I'm doing my best to grow stuff here, but I recognize that there's still stuff there that people find helpful for other parts of their life.
- Decades of solved programming issues.
  
  I don't post there anymore, though.
- r/locksmith
  
  r/lockshop
  
  r/[local area]
  
  r/sw5e
  
  These communities either don't exist or don't have critical mass here.
  
  And if you recommend Discord as an alternative, it's not the same
  
  Also: Search results that take me to Reddit threads with actual answers
  
  And if you recommend Discord as an alternative, it's not the same.
  
  I keep seeing people recommend discord as an alternative but it's just chat rooms, If it's an alternative for anything it's ICQ.
  
  Right!? gO To oUr DiScOrD. Like bitch please, I've got ADHD, i will never find what i need in a discord chat
  
  And even now that they kind of have a form of* threads they're still hard to access and not indexable. Whenever someone recommends discord as a reddit alternative I wonder if they really understand why we're seeking an alternative in the first place. I have no interest in setting up camp somewhere I'll have to abandon in a few years again.
- r/sysadmin
  
  Also the people there are not nearly as crazy or extreme
- lot of subreddit doesn't move yet. Move a communities is not easy. If the community is your business (game, company specific, or fandom, movie, ...) moving is lot more difficult.
- Because you can search it with google

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