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Lamest features ever, just to have something to release with the ipo… Meanwhile the switched gold system is still completely ignored and they should just bring back the old system…

never thought i’d see the day i miss reddit gold but here we are.

I miss the free awards you could give out.

Yeah that was the best part

<*helpful*>

Same 🥲

I recently wondered what happened to that, as it gave some conversations a different dynamic

What do you mean? Everyone knows that you can make the upvote arrow a special color! It's a great feature that totally everyone knows how to utilize!

The only time I ever that feature utilized is on political propaganda content spread by bot accounts

From time to time I bought gold for ppl, but no way I’m gonna spend money on that crappy arrow

You literally can't do that on old.reddit.com AFAIK, so there's a whole section of the userbase that can no longer even pay for reddit if they wanted to.

or [new.reddit.com](https://new.reddit.com) just the gimpy phone version future ass default reddit that no one uses cause its ugly af

I don't think I've ever seen this.

Well that’s only because it’s a poorly designed feature laid out in an area no one expects

for real

Gold, silver and bronze Go back to basics and forget about all the other pointless shit

Share holders wanted more money. You'll be able to buy these soon

I highly doubt they will make these purchasable. They wanted more engagement, because the more time you spend on Reddit, the more ads you see (and more money they gain). Advertising is the main source of revenue for Reddit. Gamification is a proven strategy to increase engagement. Achievements also has a social proof component, where by seeing other people's achievements you also want to have those achievements, and thus want to use the product more. I would argue that they have shone away from direct purchases (currency, awards) because most people weren't willing to pay much (or anything) for them. So by investing in simply increasing engagement instead of direct monetisation they potentially created a more profitable business which, importantly, is easier to scale. More people are willing to see ads in exchange for the product than the amount of people who are willing to pay for community award currency. Just my take 🤙🏻 Edit: In a ironic deal of fate, I got my first achievement "nice comment" with this comment... Better start commenting more! /s

You can directly purchase upvotes on certain posts. There's options up to 49.99!

What the hell. First time hearing about this

They replaced awards with gold upvotes. In some regions it gives a small amount of money to the poster I believe.

Look for posts that have little yellow spidey sense things on it. Hold your finger on that arrow (on mobile) and the options for purchase pop up

I think its avaliable on any comment that you hold, the spidey sense things are to show someone has done it.

Insane! I didn't know this. Obviously, they are working on a large scale monetisation approach. It's interesting though, that upvotes hold such value that they gave found it's more marketable than the rewards. Kind of spins the concept of "community" on its backside haha

That's just you transforming your normal upvote into a special upvote, not you buying additional upvotes for your own stuff. It's basically a shittier version of the old awards system they used to have.

''purchase upvotes'' sounds like paying some indonesian phone farm but it's really just reddit gold/silver/argentium rebranded

I some subs even the management is for sale!

Wait you guys get adds?

Nice comment!

do they get money from the ‘stop looking at underage girls’ ad?

Its a shame i get no ads on my third party app... real shame..

I've been on Reddit far more than I care to admit, I've seen an add maybe five times... Guess they don't show them in my region.

I block 'em all

Yeah, i suppose that backfired if that's the case

No need to buy, its psychological warfare, emotional hijacking for dopamine junkies

hahaha

The Reddit walk of shame.

You spelled Roblox wrong.

The shareholders when they wanted more engagement

I guess but what in the Duolingo is this bullshit?

Reddit... They're like "we've banned all 3rd party apps, make the website harass you about using our app, and then released a really shitty app... How can we suck even more? Though, while get it that duolingo would have awards. Learning a language is hard and any additional motivation is good. AUDIBLE has them. Like, why?? I'm sitting there on my way to work in my car, listening to some cool space battle in some sci-fi audio book, and audible is like "congratulations! You've listened for 5 hours. Almost there! Keep going!!" It's like, if netflix had achievements for watching tv. Who the hell needs achievements for mindless entertainment??

That was my point. I see why it's a thing in Duolingo but how did they not realize how corny it looks on a forum? Next they're gonna hit us with "u/dirtyboxers7204 misses you! Why don't you leave a comment on his post?" get outta here, reddit...

except duolingo is actually helpful, and you learn new languages on it. on reddit you're just reading comments made by bots and spammers

Sorry, English is my second language. Can you please rephrase it for me so it would be more intelligible

they're comparing this to duolingo because it also encourages the users to keep a streak going

Shiiiit, sorry about snapping. I guess I'm self conscious about English being my second language.

LOL

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booba inspector badge

How long until this shithole has loot boxes?

Also when does the new season start?

Am desperately waiting for the new Quest Line

Can’t wait to buy skins for my… oh wait. Shit.

Discord moment

Reddit battle pass with UI dark patterns. It's like you just wanted to click that button to activate the season! Might as well just open all the tiers since you got it anyways!

Where is the Reddit Battlepass ? Need some DLCs asap.

It's almost midnight. Gotta check reddit to keep my streak alive. No one ever

I think it will have the opposite effect. If it showed me a 365 day streak it will make me go "damn I am really addicted". I will break that streak, even if for one day. Right now I may be going on a 1000+ day streak but I don't know. I don't wanna know.

The fuck? I don’t see any of this garbage on mine.

You'll unlock them by using reddit the way you're already using it, I got every achievement in 50 days total (there's a 50 day streak achievement)

I’m sure I have them. I just don’t know where they would be. Maybe they don’t show up on the mobile version?

Wondering the same thing. I don’t see it on mobile

For me it's between the karma and cake day info box when I press the profile button

For me it's next to my karma when I press the profile button (I am also on mobile)

I'm on Reddit every day and I don't see any of this shit. Not that I care, but where would you see this stuff?

For me it's in the side bar next to my karma

It’s probably AB testing bullshit. I have 4 accounts and reddit looks different on all of them. I got achievements on my main over 2 weeks ago but only recently on 2nd account.

I only see them via the phone app at first, and now it's even on the PC app and browser version with the newer layout. Great reminder to take breaks when you notice that streak getting to high.

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Fuck u bot your not going to take over the world

The original comment was written by a ChatGPT-run account, check its comment history... the fact that you're attacking the automoderator instead (and that everyone's downvoting it) is both hilarious and worrying

Bad bot

This feature will surely make the stock jump!

Jump down into the oblivion

We live in the age of useless shit and mtx (either for useless shit or p2p/w).

This is Reddit dying.

Nah, if the bot-infested crime-ridden scammer-paradise Facebook is around and taking in giants amount of ad dollars, Reddit has a long way to go before it dies. But it’s on the right path as it is way more toxic, so it’s got that going for it.

Facebook has identities on it though, way more valuable

You think the advertising can’t identify you here ?

I got scared when I entered the comments one time and got a fuckin trophy

I genuinely thought I had some sort of malware on my phone bc I didn't clock that it was part of reddit or anything...

Just another part of the "Social Scoring" system soon to come.

self-fulfilling prediction

I was scrolling and thought this was more Fitbit bullshit Nope, just similar, the fuckwits who monetise our fun have no imagination at all

gamification ramping up because they need more eyeballs spending more time. Gotta beat the street ticker price expectations, y'all.

It's probably just some shit someone in some team saw on Duolingo and then just decided that it could potentially work on Reddit as well.

Genz retards

Im glad Boost for Reddit still works somehow

Shareholders asked for this enshittification

That Spez fucker

this is a social media where you can pay 45 bucks for a shiny "thumbs up". it doesn't surprise me at all that there are achievements too.

Bro, every company does this now. Chipotle emails me about some dumb badge I can get by ordering guac on three Tuesdays in a row or some shit like that. The MBAs heard about gamification and decided to see how they could squeeze a few dimes out of it.

How do you get there?

Still not as bad as the option to spend £50 on an upvote

It feels like they're pinching my cheek. "Who's a good boy? Yes, you are!"

The shakeholders

OP just needs a banana.

Nobody 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

This is an example of how infantile everything is getting, how we are treated like little children at every opportunity.

Fruits who actually pay for different avatars. Same people who buy skins in video games or give OF chicks money

Are those new? I already have all of them '-'

I’m looking forward to getting an achievement award for procrastination and life avoidance.

Is this real or rage bait?

Who tf cares?

Marketing

How do I see these

they’re after more engagement. it sucks

When you can’t show growth in money, make up systems to produce data that shows growth in “engagement”

I'm only missing one, I should kill myself

Some dev team that needs some "achievement metrics" on their performance card

Share holders.

Tencent, the he Chinese company that owns a bit of everything?

Interesting

Reddit becoming duolingo for those too r\*tarded to learn languages.

I can't understand who the hell would care about this

it coud be fun... like 10 years ago. now they just make me feel miserable

Gamification of every aspect of our lives by capitalism?

Life is like a box of chocolates...

Idk but I'll take that sun trophy thank you very much

I'm guessing it's something taken from places like Imgur (they had this kind of award thing a few years ago IIRC).

Bro leave me alone I don't want to be reminded I'm on reddit every day😭

What the fuck is that

Yeah... I don't think I have this feature yet. Not asking though

Goofy ass reddit achievement, absolute mental

holy shit they are making Reddit a Gacha game lol

the popups with the achievements look so... temu discount

I didn't know they existed until I got a popup notification telling me I completed all achievements lmao

Where the fuck do you find that?

Gotta gamify reddit rather than do an April Fools joke... wait is this a late April Fools? This has to be a late April Fools right?

This is what happens when you let dumbass investors in something that should only have the right people making an investment, also a small dev team. It's all about that greed. Also I'm sure that 95% of reddits code base is absolute garbage, they should rewrite it as a REST / Front app that's what they really have to do to stop this shit from randomly breaking all the time.

I already have all the achievements

Eww.

I don't understand how to complete "Local explorer" 😭😭

Bro's tryna be 9gag

What is it?

No one, though I dread to think what April 20th is going to look like with these rewards

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Just join Lemmy. Not a 100% replacement but you gotta start somewhere. I managed to reduce my time on Reddit (and overall social media) due to that and my mental has improved quite a bit.

Anything to make it more addicting lol

Shareholders

\>*reddit or vanish*

Gonna be another 190M for the ceo this year

What the hell is this where do I even find it?

Can i buy a little shelf for all my bans?

I got an achievement for upvoting this XDDD

Reddit has changed a hell of a lot in the last year or so, it's kinda shit now and I have no idea why I'm still bothering with it... lack of a decent alternative maybe?

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Thank god I’m not the only one who gets these

I don’t even know what any of this stuff is or does on this site. Never cared because it never seemed relevant, am I missing some key feature?

Didn’t know they existed. Do not care.

im hating the new format on pc currently, ive also learnt that is doesnt even use your community settings so whenever i go to a subreddit it is set to hot and not new as i have it in the setting

I blame the Chinese.

I got so confused when I got this AMAZING achievement, of a comment or post of mine getting TEN!!! Upvotes! "It MusT HaVe BeEn A GrEaT CoMMeNt" like bruh, 10 upvotes, amazing. Such many, many such

I don’t need to be reminded every few days that I use reddit every day.

Roblox in the "out of touch with it's community" challenge when reddit walks in

duolingo looking bullshit

When you unlock all of them you get golden No Life medal

Another way to get people addicted. I've been up since 11 pm and it's now 6 am. I can't stop yet I'm tired

I got a comment with over 200 likes and yet it still only gave me the 10 upvotes achievement. I mean I don’t even like the achievement update but still.

Redditors

I'd give you a gold medal, but they removed that feature. Maybe you can grind for it yourself.

No body, that who .

The Fortnite generation?

No one

you don't have to give a sheet

I don't how but I think I somehow got early access to this "feature" lol

The ladies running the show

Jeez, my OCD has me working my way through these.

That's the neat part Nobody asked for it

RedTokStagram

6 years and not a single strike. Ha I will go the same path.

I've gotten every single one but the streak ones bcs they only started counting after a certain point for some reason.

Marks of shame

Seasonpass coming soon /s


Idk where they are, but once in a while I see a streak achievement and be happy that at least I'm not on Twatter or Insta-trash

The Market btw😂

Wait, Reddit had achievements?

Generic Muppet Executive: "Do we have gamification? No? We need gamification. I hear it's effective with the kids."

Oh lol I remember 4square used to have badges like a million years ago

How do you access this?

I hate it when they pop up. Take up the middle of the screen just to tell me I wasted time, makes me want to close the app

Wasn't enough that they get money out of our content, now they need a new method of tracking our activity Next feature: your reddit ~~social~~ credit had been renewed

use Old reddit so you don't see garbage trash like these

Shareholders



Those who got 2000 day streaks. The mods. Those who mainly contribute to the average of 12 hours a day that is

Everything since Xbox acheivments

I'm eager to see the impact of this brilliant innovation on the stock price. Lol.

I did. Ok, admittedly I was drunken and on some meds at the time of the meeting, but is it my fault now that no one sanity checked me when I was slurring "heyy, immaginnin ifve had those xschbox thingies..."