The new site is designed for actual children and it's mostly worked.
Generally as social networks age they skew older with the velocity of people leaving > velocity of people coming in = slow death by attrition.
Take AOL or when Yahoo had social features for example. The step before death was their transformation to online senior centers. Facebook is on that path right now.
Reddit has bucked that trend and is continually skewing younger. Teen related subs are some of the most popular on the site.
I also find the site terrible but I've never played roblox or minecraft either - the site is no longer for me, I'm too old for it.
But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in.
Deprecating the legacy interfaces will get us old people off the site and it'll probably help them - a teen party probably works better without some 35 year olds who are in the corner only because they've stuck around for 17 years.
And honestly we've all get better shit to do these days.
> But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in.
Yes, congratulations to them.
Unfortunately for them, high school kids rarely have any money to pay for the things being advertised on reddit, so their business model still doesn't work, because older folks don't want to sift through a shitty UI/UX experience with a bunch of high-schoolers who are posting mostly nonsense.
There are some nice subs that are excepted from this, mostly by staying small and well moderated by old-timers, but these small subs don't really pay the bills from what I understand.
What we really need is a reboot of USENET in some magical way where there's no incentive to spam + micro nonzero cost to give them a reason not to, something like 100 posts for $0.01.
The reality is you'll get weird spam posts even if you block links with just basically garbage text just because people can. So add an irrelevant cost to put it above zero.
Here's an example of the spam for no reason: I've got a vintage site for a project http://bootstra386.com with a vintage guestbook. Instead of filtering out spam, I filter it over to something I called spambook so you can feast on the glory of all the spam bots postings - it's so excessive and ridiculous - actually I think it's just erroring out from too much memory now. I'll fix it in a bit
Generally as social networks age they skew older with the velocity of people leaving > velocity of people coming in = slow death by attrition.
Take AOL or when Yahoo had social features for example. The step before death was their transformation to online senior centers. Facebook is on that path right now.
Reddit has bucked that trend and is continually skewing younger. Teen related subs are some of the most popular on the site.
I also find the site terrible but I've never played roblox or minecraft either - the site is no longer for me, I'm too old for it.
But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in.
Deprecating the legacy interfaces will get us old people off the site and it'll probably help them - a teen party probably works better without some 35 year olds who are in the corner only because they've stuck around for 17 years.
And honestly we've all get better shit to do these days.