It’s graphically very pretty, at least, and I’m gonna miss the place.
As a RiF user for many years, I was completely insulated from the award bloat. Every time I see a screenshot of the official app, it seems so ridiculous.
For me RiF is the GOAT reddit client, its simple, fast, battery friendly. Hope RiF devs make client for Lemmy
Connect seems to be trending in the direction of RiF, it gets closer with every update. Love it.
Former RiFfer here on Connect.
Gives me similar vibes.
Same. All awards would be ignored except for the gild symbols. All these other awards would fly past me.
As it should be.
I mostly don’t understand why they made so many different awards. I thought Gold was a cool way of a user supporting Reddit while also showing their gratitude toward another user. After all, users cared about karma even though it didn’t really do anything so an award was just an extra “tip” of appreciation.
It definitely lost its luster to me though once they changed it to awards and it became messy.
For me the current awards system was the number one reason to switch to a 3rd party app. I despise the fact that people paid money for this stuff and i hated the visual clutter.
People actually paid money for those things?
Some one had to.
Especially the gold and plat that gave coins with them. But also, if you had Reddit premium (something else I never understood) you got a monthly supply
I thought I read somewhere on reddit that they were handing out free credits for awards to try and artificially boost the usage to make it catch on. Then when you got things like gold, you’d get some free rewards to give away to others. I guess I assumed that’s all it ever was, as I couldn’t fathom why anyone would spend real money on that stuff. Of course, I also don’t understand people spending thousands of dollars on micro-transactions in phone games, so what do I know about human behavior…
I mean… people are dumb. paying to be the product…
I’ve read comments by people saying they enjoy the feeling it gives other people when they give gold. Of course, the person I’m thinking of was long before all the fuckery with the expanse of awards.
I got heaps through the free Premium they gave after they acquired Alien Blue. I never used them and they’ll expire but I never paid for them
must have been for select people, i didn’t get that.
I’ve read comments by people saying they enjoy the feeling it gives other people when they give gold. Of course, the person I’m thinking of was long before all the fuckery with the expanse of awards.
I have 20k coins that are totally useless…
Then bequest them now while they are still silly fun and make people happier.
lots of people are giving away their coins. i have never received so many over the last couple of days.
At this point, it looks like some bizarre parody of itself.
Reddit loves “borrowing” ideas that the community came up with (reddit gold, reddit silver, Secret Santa, Alien Blue, etc.) and run them straight into the ground, until they finally go out with a whimper.
But to be fair, running a joke into the ground is a very reddit thing to do.
Come on, it is getting better here every day! And up to now this place seems not to be full of shit like reddit was.
That is like, “Hey, MCDonalds is going bankrupt! Better buy all their hamburgers and give it to randoms!” but the hamburgers do not exist and he does it anyways.
