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Absolutely hilarious that they think they can remove 3rd party search engines when reddit itself can't be navigated for shit, especially with their atrocious search feature. Blocking 3rd party search engines just ensures no one will be able to find any specific posts/content.
Literally the only time I've gone back to reddit in months is to find an answer for a game-related issue from a search engine query. Forcing a log-in or disabling search engines is just going to ensure less traffic/none from me.
Just like with Twitter, it seems like the reddit team is purposefully tanking their platform. I understand that much of it is for short-sighted payout, but even then, their decisions have been asinine and self-sabotaging.
Seriously.
I literally cannot think of a faster way to throttle reddit to death without physically shutting off the service. It's like they went from hammering nails into the coffin one by one and just encased the whole thing in cement.
You need constant inflows of new users to services like these. Even if nobody ever chose to scale back their usage or quit, people eventually just die. Netizens are no different.
I think we are all making an assumption here that the Reddit search function isn't working exactly as intended.
They don't want you to find want you are looking for immediately and then leave. They want you to be clicking about on the site for an hour. Absorbing ads, inflating statistics
Or even better, making a new post to ask the same question again.