Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
What I find curious is how long it’s taking for Google to react.
2/3s of my searches have Reddit as the top result and the only one with good answers, and the majority of said results are broken due to a closed subreddit. I know how to use the cached page, most users do not. I can only imagine that’s very frustrating for a casual Google user.
It’ll be more frustrating that reddit has become the best source of information for a lot of stuff. This will hurt in the beginning, but they can go fuck themselves nonetheless.
I maintain a game wiki that had an extended (~month+) downtime due to hosting issues.
It took about two weeks for us to fall off the first page of google, and our site was far more niche and not well linked throughout the internet than a behemoth like reddit. It’s been about six months since we changed hosts, and I still see google try to send people to the old wiki now and then.
Google is trash these days. Now we can add “page indices so old they’re growing mold” to the growing list of reasons why.