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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by solveit »

marssaxman wrote: post #155
GekkePrutser wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The mobile site funnels users into the mobile app, and the desktop site clearly echos the mobile design principles. More like hoards them into the app with a cattle prod. You can't use the mobile site without constantly confirming that no, I really really really don't want to use the app like I said 20 seconds ago. This is beyond dark patterns. It's pure user hostility.

Better to ignore their current mobile site and use the old layout, which is inexplicably still available at https://i.reddit.com/ with a much better experience.

> inexplicably

There's a small but significant group of users who would probably quit reddit if old reddit went away. Keeping them around for (what I assume is) minimal cost is just good business.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by bergenty »

vehemenz wrote: post #5

It's hard to generalize about Reddit because each subreddit is kind of its own world. If you want good discussion, go to where the good discussion is. What is terrible about the UX? Are you not using old.reddit.com? If you're judging by /r/all, sure, it's not much better than YouTube comments. As much as I hate this word, it's mostly "normies" with "normie" views. The cream rarely rises to the top, except on humor th…

tbh I’ve come a full circle and feel like the “normie” stuff is actually good, quality content. It’s the non-normies with agendas and single minded thinking that ruin a lot of what Reddit was.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by rg111 »

jandrese wrote: post #19
BitwiseFool wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/r/all is heavily manipulated and it's quite obvious a small cadre of power users and power mods are responsible for the content and character of what gets shown. I would not be surprised at all if there is dark money behind all of this, especially considering the political nature of it all.

The default feed is completely worthless. Unfortunately I think that's what a lot of people see. Carefully curating a list of quality subreddits is key to a good experience, but most people either don't know to do this or don't know how.

> Carefully curating a list of quality X

That is the only way to use any social media, for me at least.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by DavideNL »

utcursch wrote: post #97
0xRusty wrote: post #17

In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use. It's such a disaster I can't understand how it ever passed testing. The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn't too bad. The best experience is had when you unsub from al…

> In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com Even better: https://reddit.com/.compact

I still prefer old.reddit.com with the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension;

Primarily it's easier to toggle comments.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by dieselgate »

kortheo wrote: post #133
hyperbovine wrote: post #88

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I must be using Reddit differently than the typical user. It's almost hilarious how much worse the new UX is compared to browsing the exact same content on old.reddit.com. Like, I literally cannot believe that serious money, time, and effort were invested in designing this product, though presumably that is true. The same applies particularly to their video player, it is just amazingly bad compared to similar offerin…

Using old.reddit.com + Reddit Enhancement Suite extension, and subscribing to subreddits focused on high quality discussion (usually signalled by "Discussion" or "True" in the subreddit name) gives the best experience of the site IMO. But even so I feel that version reddit is slowly fading over time. I'm half expecting to wakeup one day to find that old.reddit.com is no longer available.

Yeah me as well. It’s not really “supported” right?

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by renonce »

purerandomness wrote: post #159
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #143

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Well of course, I was only responding to the point about whether the website made any money without advertising. Given that the technology is solved, and the financing is solved, I wish there were a way to build such a website with such a community without the cycle always ending in its destruction for the sake of profit.

They did, once, and called it IRC. It's still good.

Even freenode is no longer good. At least it had to be renamed libera chat.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by mmis1000 »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #35
TameAntelope wrote: post #13

You call it degradation, Reddit calls it "explosive growth". The UX redesign was hugely successful in attracting new users, users who could then be monetized. The "useless answers" are wildly popular responses because people generally prefer to meme, not solve problems. Your complaint essentially boils down to, "Why do people not behave how I want them to?" and that, my friend, is a question as old as time itself. Fr…

The UX redesign is also clearly part of a mobile-first strategy. The mobile site funnels users into the mobile app, and the desktop site clearly echos the mobile design principles. Mobile users fundamentally engage with the platform in different ways. For one, they form a different demographic segment than older users, and secondly the mobile app frames and filters content in uniquely mobile ways. High-signal content…

Their mobile app is terrible enough that I eventually gave up and find some alternative app. It isn't about UI or UX, it's purely usability issue.

What the heck they removed my subs from the sidebar and add it back from time to time, move the avatar every week, and constantly generate fake notification dot even there isn't any? It's just annoying that you see it says you have notification, you click and there isn't any.

This is the most dumb app I ever seen. And this is also the first time I use an alternative client on a social platform because the vanilla one is so useless.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

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Post by mmis1000 »

0xRusty wrote: post #17

In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use. It's such a disaster I can't understand how it ever passed testing. The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn't too bad. The best experience is had when you unsub from al…

I personally think the new UX is okay for a entertainment site. Although If you are there for information, then it isn't useful.

The actual problem is the performance. The new UX is just so terribly laggy. And even eat 20~30% cpu by literally just 4 tabs on my old 2700

How could they done such a bad job on coding a forum site? I just don't understand.

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