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Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

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Post by kactus »

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 really is. Doesn't matter which browser you use, how beefy your computer is, OS, etc., the new redesign is super slow. It speeds up a bit when you run an adblocker, but even then just going through about 15 posts and things start to stutter and chug. It's helping me stay off reddit though as a side-effect, which is one of my goals lately.

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

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Post by gimmemahlulz »

birksherty wrote: post #38
y2bd wrote: post #35

What was your intent behind adopting the "Tweetdeck" style of UI for this presentation? Tweetdeck's intent is supposedly that you'd need to be monitoring multiple feeds efficiently (e.g. you are a social media manager with multiple accounts, or you need live-updating search queries to react to). For Reddit though, most of the time subreddits aren't really meant to be consumed "live", or many-posts-at-once, which mean…

I like it because I can see multiple feeds in a single page without clicking and loading more pages. I really hate mobile first whitespace trend of modern designs (not talking about reddit here).

You can do that with multireddits IE: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit+funny+pics/

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#43

Post by bra-ket »

gruez wrote: post #23
bra-ket wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's full of radical left propaganda even on non-political subs like /r/pics and whatnot

Link to some examples of "radical left propaganda"?

Just subscribe to /r/news and read top comments

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#44

Post by gruez »

bra-ket wrote: post #43
gruez wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link to some examples of "radical left propaganda"?

Just subscribe to /r/news and read top comments

subreddit rules for /r/news:

>Your post will be removed if it:

>[...]

>is an opinion/analysis or advocacy piece.

>The title must be the actual title or the lead.

Can you explain how links to articles from major news outlets, with titles unchanged can be "radical left propaganda"? Just for posterity I took a picture of the current submissions on /r/news: https://i.imgur.com/rsTm7Rj.png. Can you point out where the "radical left propaganda" are?

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#45

Post by aleister_777 »

reflectiv wrote: post #20
bra-ket wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's full of radical left propaganda even on non-political subs like /r/pics and whatnot

"radical left propaganda" what like wanting health care and a clean environment for everyone?

No, like the violent suppression of any thought that doesn't fit the narrative. Mutually exclusive ideologies never end well.

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#46

Post by warent »

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.

Using their mobile website on android chrome regularly crashes...

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#47

Post by Lazare »

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?

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#48

Post by gonehome »

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?

I think Reddit could throw away all of the new stuff and be better off.

Everything they’ve done after maybe 2010 could just be thrown away.

An enormous waste of programmer effort and time for something that is a lot worse than what they started with.

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#49

Post by chomp »

gimmemahlulz wrote: post #42
birksherty wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like it because I can see multiple feeds in a single page without clicking and loading more pages. I really hate mobile first whitespace trend of modern designs (not talking about reddit here).

You can do that with multireddits IE: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit+funny+pics/

They're intermingled though. I get whiplash browsing my feed because one post will be about 3d printers, and the next one will be about my local baseball team, and then the next will be a political cartoon, etc.

This project is an interesting take because I can browse all of them simultaneously without having to context switch so much.

Re: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

#50

Post by Polylactic_acid »

gonehome wrote: post #48
Lazare wrote: post #47

Earlier 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?

I think Reddit could throw away all of the new stuff and be better off. Everything they’ve done after maybe 2010 could just be thrown away. An enormous waste of programmer effort and time for something that is a lot worse than what they started with.

Better off for the user but no doubt worse off for corporate profits. The redesign seems to be clearly better at inserting adverts and tracking the user. They also seem to be making a big effort to remove 3rd party links. These days most reddit posts are links to reddit hosted content or are news articles where no one reads the article.
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