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a megathread for developments on Reddit and with third-party Reddit apps (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also--here's their latest coverage (h/t @[email protected]):

It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too

other media coverage:

Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think posts on reddit ever actually show less than 0 points no matter how many downvotes they get. Comments do, but posts always bottom out at 0 as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ahhh. What about that ea post? Didn't it have some crazy negative number? Or was that just the comment? Probably the comment

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

That was a specific comment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

On Reddit, comments can show negative scores, but posts will never show a score lower than zero. It used to be possible to determine how negative a post score really was, but that hasn't been possible for some time now.

Edit: I guess that doesn't really answer your question. I read too fast, whoops.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When the individual up and downvote counts on comments and threads went away, that was a bad sign. Back in the old days you might see a comment with a -100 total score, but you could also see it had 400 upvotes and 500 downvotes, which made it a lot more clear it was a controversial but perhaps not wholly worthless comment. Modern reddit design just shows the final number, which I think capitalizes on internet hivemind behavior.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One or more of the Reddit interfaces displays a dagger on comments that are "controversial", notably missing from the official phone app I think. I do miss the individual counts, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I have (or should say "had") the dagger on Apollo, but it's a downgrade from being able to see the straight numbers. And of course my point being that reddit has continued to obfuscate info, so even though it is on 3rd party they have no problem hiding it from the primary userbase. Just I don't know. Talking about all this kind of wears me out, ya know? I think everybody here is just tired of reddit the machine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Oh, it's been such a long time since I've used the official Reddit app that I forgot about this, because you can see the downvotes in other apps.