Re: A timeline of a web forum site

[email protected] (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>| The Underlying Impact   By forcing a login wall, Reddit attaches a

  PS: Something about feeds:

| Historically, Reddit was built on the principles of the open web. 
| By simply adding .rss or .atom to the end of almost any Reddit URL -
| whether a subreddit, a user profile, or the front page - anyone could
| subscribe to content using an independent feed reader (like Feedly,
| Inoreader, or NetNewsWire).
| 
| This allowed users to consume Reddit posts in a clean, chronological
| timeline without ever visiting the website, creating an account, or
| seeing an ad.
| 
| Content Truncation   While feeds used to provide full text, images, or
| direct media links, they are increasingly stripped down to just a ti-
| tle and a link, forcing users to click through to Reddit to see the 
| actual content.
| 
| Aggressive Rate Limiting   Third-party feed reader servers and cloud-
| hosted scripts are frequently blocked or hit with heavy traffic re-
| strictions, causing feeds to constantly fail or display loading
| errors.

  Lines marked with "| " come from my editing, where I start by writing
  prompts for the chatbot and then edit the generated texts and format
  them for USENET. Chatbot might make mistakes and misrepresent or hal-
  lucinate facts.

  With its openness and APIs, early Reddit somewhat resembled USENET.
  Maybe Reddits many changes will bring some of its users to USENET?
  No, apparently, this is not happening . . .