[s1k3s]

I have a 1:1 clone of old.reddit in my PC already, I built it for fun a few months ago. It's a one week task for a senior web developer anyway. The thing is though, most people don't care about these changes and will continue to use reddit with their official apps. It's just not worth the stress IMO.

[mandmandam]

> most people don't care about these changes and will continue to use reddit with their official apps.

Yeah that's probably what the Digg execs said, and StumbleUpon, and the Myspace guys before that.

"Most people" will take notice when the people who made Reddit worth looking at leave. It might linger for a while, with rehashed posts from bots and the like, but it's walking dead right now.

[polski-g]

Reddit was worth looking at because the creators were literally starting up fake accounts to ask/answer questions. This could probably be automated with GPT in today's age to make Lemmy or whatever a possible migration path.

[riku_iki]

> Yeah that's probably what the Digg execs said, and StumbleUpon, and the Myspace guys before that.

it was early days when audience consisted of internet geeks. Today its also a lot of casual users who may not care about api drama much.

[KingOfCoders]

And then there is IP blacklisting, prevent login after 5 tries, rate managing, all the edge cases ...