It’s graphically very pretty, at least, and I’m gonna miss the place.
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.
For me RiF is the GOAT reddit client, its simple, fast, battery friendly. Hope RiF devs make client for Lemmy
Connect seems to be trending in the direction of RiF, it gets closer with every update. Love it.
Former RiFfer here on Connect.
Gives me similar vibes.
Same. All awards would be ignored except for the gild symbols. All these other awards would fly past me.
As it should be.
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.
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.
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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
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I mean… people are dumb. paying to be the product…
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.
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
must have been for select people, i didn’t get that.
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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.
I have 20k coins that are totally useless…
Well, nothing’s changed.
Then bequest them now while they are still silly fun and make people happier.
Come on, it is getting better here every day! And up to now this place seems not to be full of shit like reddit was.
lots of people are giving away their coins. i have never received so many over the last couple of days.
All of them will be lost once they disable displaying them, like tears in the rain.
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.
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.
