Yeesh, Reddit is not that good, huh.
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's really inexplicable. Old Reddit was fine, not great, just fine. The new Reddit UI is hideously bad. It was terrible when it launched, it was terrible months later, and it's still terrible now. I'm honestly at a loss. Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy?
Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy? Yes. If you browse it on your phone they even make more annoying by displaying footbar "launch on our native app"
Not only that, they also have some A/B testing in place which makes email id mandatory if you signup via mobile browser; of-course email id is not needed for mobile app.
I also found that the mobile dials home quite regularly when in background.
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#113Feels clickbaity. The title made me expect there is a native desktop app built on a classic desktop widget toolkit. Nevertheless, I still like this one anyway - good job!
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#114great work, too bad reddit is becoming a political propaganda machine
I don't think this is true. Reddit worked hard to keep alt-right viewpoints on the site, but subs like r/the_donald were so nasty that they had no choice. They also banned liberal subs at the same time. Let's not act like Reddit is banning subs that discuss trickle down economics or debate the merits of a smaller government.
They never ban all sorts of nastiest porn subreddits. I am not sure how r/the_donald could be nastier.
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#115Its amazing how far backwards reddit went. In browser on desktop it's incredibly slow, even just clicking the comment box to write takes a few seconds and lags out for no reason. No doubt they're employing an uber amount of user tracking and all manner of inefficient code.
It's really inexplicable. Old Reddit was fine, not great, just fine. The new Reddit UI is hideously bad. It was terrible when it launched, it was terrible months later, and it's still terrible now. I'm honestly at a loss. Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy?
I just feel deeply grateful to the person who has made the decision to keep the old UI available and to Tom Watson - the author of the "Old Reddit Redirect" Firefox extension.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't know about it, and now I do I discover that it's not maintained. Do you have a recommended alternative?
I believe TUIR is the de facto spiritual successor. https://gitlab.com/ajak/tuir
Emacs has one also. https://github.com/ahungry/md4rd
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#117I literally need reddit client which looks/modelled after HN. I like that HN has lightweight content focussed website(frontend). https://i.reddit.com is one good frontend.
That looks horrible on desktop. Images on far right while the title on far left.
Well, i.reddit.com is for mobiles.
For desktops, use https://old.reddit.com
Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop
#118Its amazing how far backwards reddit went. In browser on desktop it's incredibly slow, even just clicking the comment box to write takes a few seconds and lags out for no reason. No doubt they're employing an uber amount of user tracking and all manner of inefficient code.
You can still use https://old.reddit.com. The UX is still bad, but at least it is fairly quick. Annoyingly it is common to get linked back to the new UI but still way better than using it full time.
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#119In Firefox middle click on title doesn't work (it should open link in new tab).
Yeah, annoyingly on the web you need to be very careful what click events you prevent. The best practice is to only prevent clicks with no modifiers and check that the mouse button was the one that you intend. (Also avoid handling anything but a left click anyways). Of course the "default" is to block all clicks so it is inevitable that this happens :(
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#120I'm also building, or trying to, a client for Reddit made with React. The thing I'm not achieving is properly rendering videos hosted on Reddit. I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible. It's totally closed from being played outside of reddit.com by using CORS. I can't in any way play the DASH or HLS files from reddit. I can load the mp4 fallback, but guess what? It's a video without audio. You can get the au…
You may want to try to track down u/iamthatis, he wrote the Apollo app for iOS and has been able to get reddit video/galleries/etc working natively. He regularly rants against the api not being well supported, maybe he can share how he got around it?
A native app and a web app are completely different. Native apps don't need to respect CORS (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS).