Just putting this out there because I guess I don’t know, but is it possible that most users don’t care *yet*. Isn’t it possible that the API changes could have a direct impact on the content or commenting?

From personal experience I can tell you that pushshift being cut off has impacted my ability to mod. I often looked up suspicious users and seeing what they wrote in other subreddits helped me decide if they were worth the risk of a second chance or if it was less of a hassle to ban them. Especially their deleted or removed comments were often quite enlightening. That's not something Reddit enabled me to do.

I could have worked around it. I started archiving thematically similar subreddits myself but it is something that I gladly outsourced and have paid money for instead of doing it myself in an half assed way. And I am a programmer, so I can do such things. Lots of other mods aren't and can't do similar things.

Expect lower quality modding (some people will LOL and ask 'even lower?') because of this changes.

That I had to pay a 3rd party instead of Reddit is not the fault of the 3rd party. They provided a service that Reddit never did.

I disagree. There’s a huge amount of garbage out there, sure, but some communities are super active and can be used for learning. Take the PowerShell community for example or SysAdmin. I pop on those regularly to ask and answer questions. Google questions related to IT (and I’m assuming other areas of interest) and I bet there’s a Reddit post that comes up in the top 5-10 results (along with stack and other well known forums).

I miss doing fun little projects with atmel MCUs. They were easy to get started with using either arduino or C. I often found myself blogging or documenting my projects just like this, which is funny since it wasn’t “work.”

Then at some point I got too busy with work (and a kid) so I stopped messing around with them.

I didn’t realize how helpful learning low level I/O design and implementation was to my current job (control systems) until much later on. I’m pretty confident my hobbying helped me understand design decisions for the software that we worked in for my day job. Types, and more importantly type casting, was relatively ubiquitous in MCU programming. The software we used in my day job casted all types implicitly. So many times when we found a bug in that software it was due to some casting issue. Granted I was implementing “code” in that platform, but not a software engineer, so it was funny having relatively deep technical conversations with the software engineers when we had to engage them.

I got started with AVRs too! It was just before Arduino became well known, so by coincidence I got started with ASM instead of anything C.

I still force myself to take a break from work once in a while and hack together something with hand-optimized assembly. I'm afraid that if I don't do it at least once a year, I will have lost something wonderful and essential. Like forgetting how to write poetry because I spend all day writing manuals for IKEA furniture.

The AVR datasheets are also a joy. I'm liking the Attiny10 a lot these days.

It appears to me that recent trends include a lot of titles that seem more click-baity and often have quality of content that matches low effort, attention grabbing titles.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a HN problem, but instead a trending style in publishing articles. I still find gems here and there, but overall I find leisurely consumption of the media online less and less appealing. Fun tech dives or thoughtful articles are less common (or drowned out by the fodder). I remember a time (maybe 10+ years ago) when I would read 10+ of the top 30 posts. Now it’s more like 2 or 3 and I don’t have the heart to load up another 30.

Then again, maybe it’s just me becoming an old curmudgeon failing to adjust to the times.

OP is a content farm. Check the profile. Would be nice to have a block function for these accounts.

My wife and I were just discussing this. I could tell it was poorly constructed just scrolling through.

I guess what I don’t understand is how this gets to the top. Don’t other people see this garbage and just ignore it too? Is there another mechanism in the background that pushed it up?

There's just too many new accounts here these days. If you visit /new you'll see there's a new submission every minute. That's ~1200 a day, if you figure in periodic lulls. Most of these accounts comment a few times and then leave. There should be a week's timeout for every new account, they can comment but not submit. And they can't vote (upvote) until the account's a month old. That would really take care of all the spam and give people a chance to lurk long enough to understand the culture.

It’d be nice if we could downvote links as well.

Blame automated A/B testing.

Even the New York Times is guilty of this.

I will see an article in the dead tree edition that I want to share with my wife while she's at work, but the title in print doesn't match the A/B-tested internet-optimized online title, making it hard to find.

What about the content of the article? I admit I’m a NYT print reader as well and don’t really look at their online content, so I wasn’t aware. It makes sense in context of my comment that they change the title, but wondering if they run the actual contents through something too.

Worried we’re headed for (arrived at) some dystopia where we’ll need to have AI filter and sort all the AI created crap to be able to consume anything meaningful.

Fortunately, the text of the articles and the pictures don't change. (I bet the union would have a fit.)

Unfortunately, the Times' search is heavily weighted toward the titles, so searching for unusual words and names from the article doesn't help much.

What's real disappointing is that this is an IEEE publication.

Everything I've published in IEEE had to go through a lot review but I guess if I had instead put together some bad charts and worded it as blog spam I'd be in their most circulated magazine.

I am in the same boat. What's worse, for me it looks like it affect conferences too. More effort spent on self-promotion than on desire to share knowledge.

I’ve never seen rack mount kits for that equipment. Best bet would be to buy some rack shelves and affix standard equipment to it. Get a little horizontal PDU or 2 for the back side and you’re made.

I think this is the most economical option too, thanks. There are some decent rack mount shelves you can buy.

It would not look as aesthetically pleasing or perhaps be as stable as bolted and racked equipment, but the function is the same.

Originally I got interested in radios when I learned to deploy wifi for industrial applications. The big thing with industrial applications is interference and reflection. You typically have a lot of large structures made of metal or other materials that block the waves. Also, there’s a bunch or rotating equipment that emits emf as well (interferers). This can make antenna placement critical.

I wish I had gotten into it earlier, but I was discourage by a university professor who basically told my senior design groups that radios were too finicky for us to tackle.

Now I participate in amateur radio and I suggest anyone who finds the topics interesting to do the same.

Specifically selecting the right type of antenna and placing and orienting it correctly. Very easy for omni’s (mostly). Terribly annoying for spatial or directional.

Radios are fascinating. Optimizing and enhancing your radio capabilities is a black hole of time and money, but in return you gain knowledge and satisfaction.

It's interesting to me, that these things were almost impossible to do correctly in an amateur setting (equipment needed was a $10k+), and now with devices like NanoVNA, SDR dongles and some aliexpress shopping, you can do everything for a price of two prime steaks at a local restaurant.

NanoVNA to tune the dipole (1/4l), gain is fixed, autogain off, move the dipole around the antenna with sufficient attenuation on the transmitter (or even better, rotate the antenna itself), and you can get reasonably accurate radiation graphs. Also tuning an antenna with a NanoVNA is very easy and if the antenna geometry is simple enough, orientation is simple too.

10+ years ago, you needed a friend working at a local college to take you in at night to measure stuff :)

Reddit mobile site does this when you tap a post. It drives me nuts. Then you have to hit back, which refreshes Reddit and brings you back to the top. I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app.

> I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app.

This might also be a dark pattern to exploit attention spans compromised by chronic content consumption.

A user sees new content at the top of the page, forgets the content they wanted to see, sticks around to look at novel material.

THEN the user either goes back and gets distracted again, or at the very least, goes back to their intended page.

Also to note, Reddit disabled i.reddit.com (the old mobile site that was snappy) within the last month.

I wouldn’t be surprised if old.reddit.com was next on the chopping block.

The day old.reddit.com goes so do I

I doubt they'll care. By that time, they'll be confident that whatever loss they incur by killing old. will be worth it for them. If there was an actually significant user base using old., I imagine "regular" Reddit would look a bit different than it does.

If you get value from Reddit, it might be worth trying to migrate that elsewhere. Better to have some control than none.

Completely honest here, I use old Reddit on mobile web. Under settings scroll down a bit and you'll see the option.

The cookie or whatever seems to expire every week or so, then I'm unceremoniously dumped back into the mess that is their "modern" design.

Despite that, the layout of old Reddit is much more information dense. Just use the phone in landscape and it's perfectly fine.

People get what they deserve. All joking aside, I find that mentality to be one of the things that helps people grow. Start using Arch, have a problem, run to the forum with a lower effort question/no troubleshooting or research and you’re going to have a bad time. My guess is that’s not going to happen again.

Wish you’d see it more in other places.

It is great. I honestly used to use it to automate pieces of work in a software that had terrible bulk tools, but now that I’m more on the management side I heavily use it to substitute words/acronyms. I have it expand all my acronyms for docs. If I put metrics on it I’m assuming it’s most heavy lift for me is fixing MS autocorrect for VLAN and IT.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) I ended up getting into other scripting tools/languages to figure out how to work around certain programming environments.