Wait, that explains soo much of their terrible UI changes ocer the years!
On old reddit, usernames, while displayed, are in reality semi hidden, it uses tiny text that blends in the rest of the text.
This is terrible for creators, their name is their brand, and if they don’t get exposure of it on their content, they will leave.
This is why new reddit made usernames slightly more prominent, and also started pushing avatars, they want more big creators, that they expect will bring in their audience, an audience that is trained to want to support their creator.
This is turning reddit from a vibrant community to a generic social media site, a checkbox for what a creator is expected to have…
Creators on reddit?
Wait, that explains soo much of their terrible UI changes ocer the years!
On old reddit, usernames, while displayed, are in reality semi hidden, it uses tiny text that blends in the rest of the text.
This is terrible for creators, their name is their brand, and if they don’t get exposure of it on their content, they will leave.
This is why new reddit made usernames slightly more prominent, and also started pushing avatars, they want more big creators, that they expect will bring in their audience, an audience that is trained to want to support their creator.
This is turning reddit from a vibrant community to a generic social media site, a checkbox for what a creator is expected to have…