07-08-2023, 10:19 PM
Reddit has (had) something like 100,000 active communities with 4-500 million users... 50 million and more posts per day.
And they haven't provided tools for quick/bulk operations. Imagine having to deal with 10,000 posts in a day, each taking a dozen swipes and 10 clicks to deal with, scrolling around to move between queues and tags and user-management options. At 10 seconds per post, that's pushing 30 hours. Apollo and RIF and other apps allowed quick disposition with a few gestures. (Other apps like Sync and BaconReader provided a better all-around experience for frequent visitors/posters after "New Reddit" destroyed the GUI.)
3rd party tools that tapped into the APIs provided vital utility for the mods.
Without those tools, the mods literally can't do their jobs. There aren't enough hours in the day.
Those mods who have left or are leaving represent thousands of years of man-hours of learning the ropes. As Reddit removes mods and replaces them with newbs who have no experience and no tools to do their jobs, the subs are falling apart.
Now, the biggest automated tool for removing bots and their scam/spam/misinformation/propaganda posts is going away.
Without experienced mods and tools like that, who will keep the place running?
Without access to the APIs, who is going to make new tools?
At this point, so many apps/tools have been retired that it would take years to replace them even if Reddit hired teams of new programmers and put millions of dollars into replacing it all, which they're not doing.
They assumed that they had an endless cash-cow, but it's looking a lot more like they've butchered their golden goose.
And they haven't provided tools for quick/bulk operations. Imagine having to deal with 10,000 posts in a day, each taking a dozen swipes and 10 clicks to deal with, scrolling around to move between queues and tags and user-management options. At 10 seconds per post, that's pushing 30 hours. Apollo and RIF and other apps allowed quick disposition with a few gestures. (Other apps like Sync and BaconReader provided a better all-around experience for frequent visitors/posters after "New Reddit" destroyed the GUI.)
3rd party tools that tapped into the APIs provided vital utility for the mods.
Without those tools, the mods literally can't do their jobs. There aren't enough hours in the day.
Those mods who have left or are leaving represent thousands of years of man-hours of learning the ropes. As Reddit removes mods and replaces them with newbs who have no experience and no tools to do their jobs, the subs are falling apart.
Now, the biggest automated tool for removing bots and their scam/spam/misinformation/propaganda posts is going away.
Without experienced mods and tools like that, who will keep the place running?
Without access to the APIs, who is going to make new tools?
At this point, so many apps/tools have been retired that it would take years to replace them even if Reddit hired teams of new programmers and put millions of dollars into replacing it all, which they're not doing.
They assumed that they had an endless cash-cow, but it's looking a lot more like they've butchered their golden goose.