I’ve got it enabled in my settings, so that’s not it…

Different people have different workflows and needs. It’s completely understandable why some folks would want NSFW content blurred by default - but other people prefer the opposite.

Reddit allowed this to be a user-configurable setting, which makes the most sense to me. However, these thumbnails were clear just a day ago, so I was hoping that this change wouldn’t have been made without a way for individual users to override it.

Thank you. Hopefully, this will get addressed soon - although I know that the admin has his hands full just meeting capacity at the moment.

This is not reddit… Lol

You know what, reddit was filled with people who got upset when others tried to help them improve. Let’s not take that with us here.

I, for one, am grateful when others point out a mistake because it helps me to become better. That’s the mentality we should encourage here.

You’re ignoring the other effects of third party apps - which is to have significantly added to the number of users they have to show ads to in the first place.

Making their API free encouraged active development which increased user engagement. So it absolutely did increase their revenue because it helped to increase the popularity of their site in the first place.

On reddit, one of my favorite communities was r/AskMen. However, one of the biggest complaints was that the reddit mods were too lax about allowing women to answer questions, since at that point, it might as well have been r/AskReddit.

But someone else (not one of the reddit mods) created https://kbin.social/m/AskMen and fixed that problem.

So even though, like many magazines from the reddit migration, it’s new and short on content for the moment, I’m really happy that it’s here and that it’s improved.

I look forward to its growth with this much better community of people.

I understand what you’re saying. However, echo chambers aside, I found reddit very useful for political discourse. Even for subjects that had a hive mind response, there were often a few comments that presented the other side in a very well thought out way, with details and citations which would give some folks a reason to rethink their knee-jerk response.

In addition, one of the biggest problems in the US is that lack of political engagement by younger folks. So having those news articles and discussions on a popular forum gives them that visibility into the world of governance and allows them to both develop a desire to vote for change as well as having better knowledge of the issues and how different political figures have acted and what they really stand for.

So I welcome that discourse and having political subs.

It’d be awesome to be a classier/more serious version of Reddit.

Those things are not mutually exclusive. You can have higher standards for the serious subs we host as well as having porn related subs as well.

Just subscribe to the ones you want and ignore the others.

This works if we’re only talking about static images.

However, if a thread links to, let’s say, something from redgifs.com, then you’ll only get the static image instead of the animated gif that you would hovering over a direct link.

Do you know how we can reach the underlying linked URL and use Imagus based on that?

There is an option that reddit has zero ability to stop:

If redditors band together and commit to boycott any company who advertises through reddit until reddit reverses their changes.

Companies have been very careful about trying to not get tied into the protests. But now we make it so that reddit is poisoned fruit.

There is nothing reddit can do to stop this. No rules they can change to subvert it, because we can publicize this boycott on any and every other platform if they try to silence us.

Boycott companies that advertise through reddit, and that will throw a major wrench in their current income as well as further sour their IPO prospects.