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Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#32> Thank goodness for old.reddit.com but I don't know what all of the users who have starting using the old subdomain are going to do when they eventually shut it off. I looked it up once, and Spez mentioned somewhere that they plan to keep it alive indefinitely. Although this can always change in the future of course, given that i.reddit.com is still online, I'd say that Reddit has a pretty good track record of keepi…
> (and before people get the wrong idea: I just registered to see what's going on there).
You should not need to say this.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#33I believe the UI is being managed to death. I noticed the same with Slack recently.
The old UI was probably built by engineers for performance and ease of use.
The new one is pretty, does all the stuff marketing wants, has loads of features, uses shiny new tech. Or, all the original engineers that knew how to build a good site left. Maybe both.
It's a dumpster fire. I haven't found anyone that disagrees and I have all the same bugs you do.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#34Wait till you try Reddit app, it is a bigger fuckup. Every update to app, resets your settings. Reddit keeps introducing myriads of new user preferences and defaults are most permissive options. For last few months, I kept thinking these frequent changes sooner or later gonna compromise security. Sure enough recently I had to abandon my 10 year old Reddit account because it got compromised. Once I noticed account com…
Reddit's org is broken. Free unofficial apps maintained by random devs in their spare time are better than the official one
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
what do you use now? i find that there are almost no alternatives to niche communities.
that's the problem. there's practically no other alternative if you want the variety reddit has. Hackernews is a great solid community, however it's only one community.
I actually quite love the Hackernews UI and wish that there was an implementation/self hostable package of it that could be expanded to cover other topics ala Subreddits. But alas, I'm not much of a coder.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#36Wait till you try Reddit app, it is a bigger fuckup. Every update to app, resets your settings. Reddit keeps introducing myriads of new user preferences and defaults are most permissive options. For last few months, I kept thinking these frequent changes sooner or later gonna compromise security. Sure enough recently I had to abandon my 10 year old Reddit account because it got compromised. Once I noticed account com…
Reddit's org is broken. Free unofficial apps maintained by random devs in their spare time are better than the official one
could you suggest some of these apps ?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#37Reddit used to have an absolutely flawless mobile browser experience, which after they launched the app they're slowly making worse and worse (now with UI elements missing seemingly only provided by API/app UI). I understand that Reddit needed to monetize (e.g. ads, better engagement, etc) but a lot of these UI/design changes don't really seem aimed at that goal, they just seem like change for changes sake. When old.…
>When old.reddit.com finally goes dark, I'm leaving.
I browse on desktop via FF and have RES installed, along with uBlock Origin and uMatrix; even though I am not a power user ─ the experience is great. For the phone, I use Apollo on iOS and settled for Joey on Android (after using other clients) with an adblocker. If old reddit goes dark, I am sure there will be other enhancements, to retain some form of 'clean' experience. Incidentally, I use Octal for HN (iOS & macOS -- which provides a 'reddit like experience'.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit's org is broken. Free unofficial apps maintained by random devs in their spare time are better than the official one
could you suggest some of these apps ?
Reddit Is Fun on Android and Apollo on iOS
Alien Blue used to be great until Reddit bought it and turned it into the official app. Very sad.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?
#39What is a SPA?