I don't know, I used to be a very active moderator on another account but stopped over a year ago, and I've still kept using old reddit. It's just objectively better.
I agree. It used to be possible with third party apps but sp*z fucked that up so whatever I guess. Although you can still use them with custom API access.
Effective moderation was never possible via any app.
My typical scenario:
An argument of some sort is taking place with reported comments up and down the chain...
I have the conversation open in a tab.
I open a tab with the history of each participant.
I open a tab for modmail/official interactions for each participant.
You can't do that with any app because the pages are all modal and you can only see one at a time.
I have a 34 inch hi-def monitor and can open as many windows as I need and see a lot of them at once and/or easily switch back and forth between them. In an app, your f'cked.
I do browse with an app. I use RedReader.
You don't have to do any strange code replacements, or any tricks. It just works.
I mean, it was never efficient or anything, and it was still really tiresome to do it with an app, but using third party clients was always better than reddit's official app.
Yep. I moderated from a mix of RIF and old with the modtoolbox extension. After the 3PA squeeze, I just resigned my mod status. I can't effectively moderate with the native tools.
Open source is cheaper to dev and safer.
If you need to go closed source, that means you need to abuse your status to force a change the community wouldn't approve.
Sold products literally make SENSE to be proprietary from a business standpoint. Just because it's open source doesn't make it easier to dev. If you look at the old reddit com source code you can see that an overwhelming majority of commits and git LoC are by people hired by Reddit, with maybe some commits from community here and there. I'm aware neither of these are good standards for measurement but it's the best I've got. Staying open source does actually require effort to do, and Reddit isn't seeing much of any results from doing so.
I thought it was a paid for feature already tbh. Either way here probably isn't enough participation and/or profit to continue. I didn't even know the sub I first saw this notice on had them set up.
Custom emojis are only available in communities that enable it by request, and can't be used outside of said community. The community I moderate has it and our members do feel sad about it being discontinued
Some communities use custom emojis which are established for their users. These are community specific, and are set up by moderators, thus being relevant to moderators.
No one uses it. It's a weird discord like thing which is simply annoying anyway. It directs attention towards inane, immature comments that are seeking attention and validation. It's the kind of thing I would want to block. Removing this feature improves reddit and takes nothing away.
Infrastructure for this will be non-trivial, and it actually costs money to send all the little images, but if they’re really seldom used, they’ll cost more because of how cloud storage and content delivery networks work.
If almost no one is using them, it would make sense eventually to sunset the feature and send the people to do something else.
That's a weird thing to lose because of maintenance. They're literally spending money on multiple UIs, so there has to be another reason.
Tbf if they get rid of old reddit a non-insignificant amount of the userbase will leave forever
A small number of actual users (an overwhelming majority is mobile now), but indeed a large number of
unpaid labormods.I don't know, I used to be a very active moderator on another account but stopped over a year ago, and I've still kept using old reddit. It's just objectively better.
Oh I agree 100%, but the traffic metrics show we're a minority.
Moderating in anything other than Old.Reddit with Toolbox and RES is slow and cumbersome. Effective moderation is impossible in a phone app.
I agree. It used to be possible with third party apps but sp*z fucked that up so whatever I guess. Although you can still use them with custom API access.
Effective moderation was never possible via any app.
My typical scenario:
An argument of some sort is taking place with reported comments up and down the chain...
I have the conversation open in a tab.
I open a tab with the history of each participant.
I open a tab for modmail/official interactions for each participant.
You can't do that with any app because the pages are all modal and you can only see one at a time.
I have a 34 inch hi-def monitor and can open as many windows as I need and see a lot of them at once and/or easily switch back and forth between them. In an app, your f'cked.
I do browse with an app. I use RedReader.
You don't have to do any strange code replacements, or any tricks. It just works.
I mean, it was never efficient or anything, and it was still really tiresome to do it with an app, but using third party clients was always better than reddit's official app.
Yep. I moderated from a mix of RIF and old with the modtoolbox extension. After the 3PA squeeze, I just resigned my mod status. I can't effectively moderate with the native tools.
It's a way to do a culture shift on reddit, completely severing the ties to the former nerd space it was
Non-insignificant… non-insignificant… just say significant?
No
Well, if they kept old reddit as the only reddit, problem solved.
It could be some legacy code dept. If only Reddit was still Open Source then we would know.
Since when was Reddit ever open source
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
damn
But why would they keep it open source, it's unprofitable from a business stand point
Open source is cheaper to dev and safer. If you need to go closed source, that means you need to abuse your status to force a change the community wouldn't approve.
Sold products literally make SENSE to be proprietary from a business standpoint. Just because it's open source doesn't make it easier to dev. If you look at the old reddit com source code you can see that an overwhelming majority of commits and git LoC are by people hired by Reddit, with maybe some commits from community here and there. I'm aware neither of these are good standards for measurement but it's the best I've got. Staying open source does actually require effort to do, and Reddit isn't seeing much of any results from doing so.
I didn't know anyone was using these anyway.
I think the sports communities often use these in flairs for users to indicate their team affiliation.
Flairs aren’t affected. No clue why they can’t support them in text bodies anymore
Somebody probably had a dick emoji and advertisers didn't like it.
Edit. They will probably bring it back as a paid feature
I thought it was a paid for feature already tbh. Either way here probably isn't enough participation and/or profit to continue. I didn't even know the sub I first saw this notice on had them set up.
Damn, my reading comprehension sucks. Good point.
the binding of isaac subreddit uses them a lot I think
My subreddit has a HUGE catalog of custom emojis…… and yes, they are used
I don't even know those existed. Feel free to reply to me with custom emojis so that I know exactly what I won't be missing hahah.
Custom emojis are only available in communities that enable it by request, and can't be used outside of said community. The community I moderate has it and our members do feel sad about it being discontinued
I feel bad for joking about it, then. Yeah must suck for those who enjoyed them. :(
I'm sure they are subreddit exclusive.
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Some communities use custom emojis which are established for their users. These are community specific, and are set up by moderators, thus being relevant to moderators.
That's unfortunate for all the game subreddits that use them for team affiliations and item trade posts. :/
Hey, Reddit! Suck much?
You gotta be kidding. You just went public!!
No one except maybe WSB would care
No one uses it. It's a weird discord like thing which is simply annoying anyway. It directs attention towards inane, immature comments that are seeking attention and validation. It's the kind of thing I would want to block. Removing this feature improves reddit and takes nothing away.
"I don't like it" ≠ "No one uses it"
Infrastructure for this will be non-trivial, and it actually costs money to send all the little images, but if they’re really seldom used, they’ll cost more because of how cloud storage and content delivery networks work.
If almost no one is using them, it would make sense eventually to sunset the feature and send the people to do something else.