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Post by jbister » Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

ponker wrote: post #64

Lazare wrote: post #47

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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?

Part of it is definitely that, and it's worked. I finally did install the Reddit app on my phone which makes me much more valuable to advertisers. It's user-hostile, but there's a business method to the madness.

Post by markosaric » Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

Lazare wrote: post #47

devwastaken wrote: post #40

Its 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?

Post by non-entity » Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 3:05 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #40

Its 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.

Post by vorpalhex » Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

iliekcomputers wrote: post #96

shultays wrote: post #93

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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"

For all the shit that the desktop web experience gets, the mobile web experience on reddit is a 1000 times worse. It sometimes blocks you from viewing certain ( cough NSFW cough ) subreddits unless you use the app, umm what??

Post by jdeibele » Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #115

Lazare wrote: post #47

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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.