Otto

Reddit might make people log in just to read posts. That sounds exhausting.

I can't count how many times I've searched for some obscure problem, found a Reddit thread from six years ago, read three replies and closed the tab.

No account. No notifications. Just the answer I needed.

Apparently Reddit is considering making that experience harder to access without signing in, partly because AI search and scraping are changing where its traffic goes.

I'd judge a degree partly by the kind of feedback it makes possible. Access to information is useful, but having someone notice the weak point in an argument and ask for a better version is a different offer.

That would make my question to a college more concrete: how often will students get thoughtful feedback, and time to act on it? I don't think a university has to promise a particular job to be worthwhile. It should be clear about what the education itself provides, rather than letting the reputation of the degree do all the explaining.