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See, that was my take on it, but I have noticed a shift, somewhat recently. I check /popular every now and then just to see what’s happening around the internet, and they’d always pop up. It’s gotten distinctly more “accepting” of taxation and stuff. I literally thought this yesterday, like “am I crazy or has it flipped a bit”.

I wouldn’t quote me on sub narratives, my browsing is sporadic at best, but that’s what I’m remembering.

I don’t get it. I modded one community with about 30k users, maybe 5% of which was active. The only thing I ever did for years was remove obvious reposts by bots and sticky weekly discussion threads. Communities normally police themselves decently well. Past a critical mass, I’m sure it gets a it harder but unless it’s a personal attack or completely unrelated, let people vote shit down.

I also don’t know why you’d want to be a mod of 45 subs with millions of users each. Shits shady AF.

Was the reply button the biggest previously? I never installed the official app so I don’t know how it was previously set up

Kinda par for the course for Reddit. There was like a whole thing a while back about how they were monetizing the site, selling off data, etc. Anyone who stayed should expect this and more.

Would also be crazy if they allowed 3rd party apps that let you change how you interacted with comments. I think I had one that was swipe reply, so I didn’t have to tap anything at all. Whatcha get staying in a clearly money hungry platform I guess lol.

That might be my disconnect with the UI change, cause I wasn’t tapping anything to interact with comments, I was only doing that to do formatting, etc, and didn’t have that muscle memory. I do still think it’s a bit “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” in terms of where they’re going to put it, but again, that’s to be expected from that company at this point.

You’re right. It makes a difference that they moved it one spot to the left vs one spot to the right. If they had kept it second from the left, there would be no one upset about it.

Except the headline would likely be “they moved the dropdown button to put the award button in its place”.

I’m not arguing that they added it in the first place. But given that there is an award button, where is the acceptable place to put it on the UI?

Idk if I’d consider that nefarious moreso than just “we added a button and want to keep reply right of the options dropdown”.

The addition of the awards button so prominently is easily deemed shitty tho lol

I bet Drake just clicks the check boxes and doesn’t unsubscribe from marketing emails.

I’m hardly an engineer, but I’d say the less movement the card takes, the better. SD cards are pretty old tech now, so there aren’t many improvements to be made anyway. Cheap card, expensive card, as long as the contacts don’t corroded or constantly get worn, I don’t imagine they fail often. Photographers probably eat through them because of the transfer processes or people using them with phones/handheld games because they’re always inserting/removing them. If it just sits there, it’s just getting power and losing it, so it’s squarely on the internals and no physical wear.

I’ve had the same cheap card in my dashcam for almost 5 years now, and it’s never failed. High and low temps every year, but I attribute it’s longevity to never removing it ever lol.

In my experience it kind of means both. You get more speed obviously, but that comes with better quality materials and control processes at the manufacturer. People expect the $5 SD card to corrupt eventually, they get more upset when the $40 card does.