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

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Post by atomi »

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.

> An enormous waste of programmer effort and time

You've just described a whole lot of programming work.

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

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Post by systematical »

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?

Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.

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

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Post by fludlight »

systematical wrote: post #54
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?

Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.

It's fine until they discontinue old.reddit.com at some point in the near future.

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

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Post by kabacha »

fludlight wrote: post #55
systematical wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.

It's fine until they discontinue old.reddit.com at some point in the near future.

By then hopefully reddit alternatives like Lemmy[1] become viable

1 - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

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

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Post by mrweasel »

warent wrote: post #46
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...

A large number of sub-reddits aren’t even available on mobile browsers, they’re aggressively trying to push you to their app.

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

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Post by jjcon »

c9fc42ad wrote: post #12
jjcon wrote: post #10

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The last few times I’ve been to reddit /r/all was just full of news about Donald Trump. As someone that doesn’t really get current American politics I’m just so confused at how people don’t get tired of it. Like I get it, fill the front page for a few days in 2016... but its like every day... all the time... I just want cute pictures of cats... can’t we just have 1 happy place.

Why not make an account and subscribe to whatever you find interesting? Then just avoid /r/all

I suppose I could, seeing the community via /r/all doesn’t really make me want to get invested though. Maybe I’m missing out on some gems but I’ve got plenty of things to keep my attention as it is.
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