I just noticed this when I saw a strange “Achievement Unlocked” notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.
addiction mechanics lol. fuck reddit.
Gameification is the “react content” equivalent for lazy social media devs imo.
It’s to keep you feeding their site with data/posts/comments
Yes! squeeze them to the last drop to feed our AI overlord!
I’ve been very busy on Reddit lately: I actively deleted my entire posting history by hand recently - which took a long time - and I’ve taken to removing all my posts and comments the next day, or after whoever the comment was destined for most likely read it. And yet despite all my activity of late, I’ve not unlocked any achievement. How odd 🙂
Why reddit is using this shitty method people like me gonna crazy over this because we like to show some pixel on our profile to show we are superior than others.
I was going on 15 years before they shit in the bed.
Dark patterns go brrrrr
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Wait, you need to post every day to get the achievement?
tbh i was pretty shocked when i went to the app to check notifications and saw “don’t lose your 2 day reddit streak” or sth
They are getting desperate
No, Reddit is going fine. But they want to do better. So they make up stuff like this and it will work.
True, but they are still desperate for money, that’s all it’s about now.
For real with how good Lemmy apps have gotten
Garbage site, so glad I found Lemmy
This is just an attempt to keep their bots motivated.
Yeah I was gonna say wtf do bots need streaks for?
Retention for bots, probably. Some of my accounts have been shadowbanned for no particular reason smh.
