I admit that personally I'm only lurking using the new web ui, both for desktop and mobile so this API change doesn't really affect me, for now...
I don't know if the quality of posts will degrade as time goes on, but even with that, there's some signs that reddit also don't want to hold the status quo for their web-based interface.
In desktop I see more ads are posing as legitimate posts appeared even when adblocker is on.
Sometimes I cannot hold on my login session and just learned recently that reddit is trying A/B testing that some accounts cannot login at all on the browser.
Let's say that I'm skeptical that reddit can hold on the content quality like today.
In the old web UI it’s a lot more clear what posts are ads and which ones aren’t, and a lot of the garbage no one uses like RPAN, the TikTok thing, etc. aren’t there. It’s no wonder why they fucking hate it so much lol
I don't know if the quality of posts will degrade as time goes on, but even with that, there's some signs that reddit also don't want to hold the status quo for their web-based interface.
In desktop I see more ads are posing as legitimate posts appeared even when adblocker is on.
Sometimes I cannot hold on my login session and just learned recently that reddit is trying A/B testing that some accounts cannot login at all on the browser.
Let's say that I'm skeptical that reddit can hold on the content quality like today.