TL;DR To make messaging on Reddit faster and more reliable, we’re replacing Private Messages (PMs) with Reddit Chat and inbox notifications. This transition is necessary to maintain and improve Reddit’s messaging infrastructure. We aim to make these changes with minimal disruption while improving the user experience.
Timeline: Starting at the end of March, we’ll roll out these changes in phases over the next three months to ensure everything goes smoothly
Genuinely can’t remember the last time Reddit had a good update.
Fuuuuck chat. I hated it when they debuted it, I hate it now. Fortunately I don’t have to deal with that shit cause I’m over here now.
You guys are still logging into reddit?
Yes, to promote Lemmy
And you haven’t been banned yet?
No, you just need to choose where you talk about it
/r/RedditAlternatives is fine
hi its me a r/redditalternatives mod
Its hard not to, that place has a fucking monopoly in internet communities!
Maybe it was at oeast partially a blessing I got banned…
Post links to Lemmy to counter it.
Stop lurking here and post links into communities. Be the change you want to see! If you build it, more will come!
Also, and probably most important, you don’t need 10 million people in a community to have quality content.
Having so many also means having a huge amount of toxic people.
I wouldn’t say a monopoly, but my counterpoint is pointing to how discord swallowed up all the BBS forums that reddit hadn’t. So it’s not like that’s much better.
My latest horror (slight exaggeration) was finding pretty much the entire modding scene for Balatro is contained to discord
wtf? If I wanna download mods for a game I have to prowl through a discord “forum”? It’s awful, what’s wrong with nexus or steam workshop
Small world, I’m also on the balatro/other games modding discord boat, and it is a rough ocean out here. The perennial argument is that users don’t know how to use an old school forum, nobody wants to moderate it, nobody wants to pay for the infrastructure.
All those fall flat to me. Nobody even bothers to use discord’s “forums” or pinned messages for their bug reports/troubleshooting, no they just post straight to general, “this doesnt work can someone help” with no details whatsoever. Not like it would be any better or worse on a forum. It’s also not like BBS forums don’t have moderation tools, it’s not some lost art from an ancient civilization. As for paying for it… the whole discord server is propped up by nitro users. Like come on. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
It really doesn’t if you’re willing to look past the first five (paid for) results on Google…
I jist got my 5th account perma banned. Moved to lemmy after my last 7 day ban, never looking back now. They are starting to ban just for swearing.
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Sync for Reddit does not have a chat function, so I won’t be using DMs… Not that I even care for it, I guess my “chat request” feed will be bigger for the next time I check on the desktop website (with Ublock Origin ofc) 😅
It was always a mystery that they maintained two features with basically the same function in parallel for so long. Hopefully they made it better than the last time I gave it a try, because otherwise, oof.
Custom clients don’t have chat. Oh well. I basically never used DMs anyways so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
