213 upvotes, 15 direct replies (showing 15)
View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
I'm a little confused about the purpose given the asynchronous nature of Reddit
Comment by Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx at 03/03/2021 at 19:43 UTC
16 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Right? On reddit this is useless. Reddit is trying to become a social media and it's going to kill it
When I'm on reddit, I don't care who is online or not. And I definitely don't want others to know. Also what does it even mean to be "online" on reddit lmao. Most people lurk and just read things. They don't care who's online
Comment by dargscisyhp at 03/03/2021 at 19:10 UTC
38 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Reddit has gotten progressively worse since the UI redesign.
Reddit you should take note of what happened with Digg. If you keep pushing totally unwanted changes your userbase will leave.
Comment by scriptkiddie4hire at 03/03/2021 at 18:44 UTC*
59 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Reddit wants to become an instant messaging service .. I would have thought it learned after its previous mistakes
Comment by MoralMidgetry at 03/03/2021 at 19:12 UTC
101 upvotes, 3 direct replies
The purpose is to make it easier to harass someone on reddit.
Comment by Mission-Wheel-9195 at 03/03/2021 at 19:53 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm confused too given the "I don't care about redditors except what they write" nature of most users.
Comment by [deleted] at 04/03/2021 at 10:38 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's always about keeping users engaged on the site so their activity data would continously flow and would help building profile used for advertising. It's never about making anything useful for the user - at least not for few years now since redesing of the interface or maybe even earlier when they decided to become a safe-space.
Comment by MajorParadox at 03/03/2021 at 18:51 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Makes the most sense for chats and live chat posts, at least (but I don't think they are there yet). But could also make sense in quick comment reply conversations?
Comment by intensely_human at 04/03/2021 at 04:03 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The purpose is of course to *end* the asynchronous nature of reddit.
Remember when chat was a new thing?
Comment by klieber at 03/03/2021 at 18:44 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Because Facebook has online status indicators.
Comment by Xaxxon at 03/03/2021 at 19:59 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It doesn’t have to be as asynchronous. That’s just an information limitation they’re trying to overcome.
It can be food for both.
Comment by gruetzhaxe at 04/03/2021 at 13:25 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
As confused as about the existence of an instant messaging feature.
^Obligatory ^FUCK ^FACEBOOKIFICATION
Comment by FPSXpert at 02/06/2021 at 21:43 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit wants to Digg their own site. Nothing more to it.
Comment by [deleted] at 04/03/2021 at 06:57 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They don't want it to be that way.
Comment by lift_ticket83 at 03/03/2021 at 18:55 UTC
-20 upvotes, 29 direct replies
Think of this as a cue for conversational readiness. While there are certainly asynchronous aspects of Reddit, lots of communities have real-time events or conversations - things like AMA’s, game day threads, or RPAN streaming. We hope these presence indicators will help people to see when these types of activities are happening and allow them to jump into those conversations while they’re happening.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/03/2021 at 20:44 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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