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

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Post by jay3ss »

DavidSJ wrote: post #63
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.

The use-by-default setting never seems to stick for me. But so far it’s still been possible to substitute old in the URL.

I've created a Firefox extension that allows you to change Reddit subdomains easily (without having to type). Unfortunately because of covid, the queue for approval can days or weeks right now.

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

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

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.

They must have usage stats.

I think they are well aware that a lot of older users (some likely heavy _content_contributors_) will simple walk away if they do this.

You can't sell ads if you don't have original content that drives traffic to your pages.... old.reddit.com as well as '.compact' are the price to pay to prevent a digg type exodus.

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

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Post by morrbo »

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.

Somewhat happened a few days ago. Reddit in the browser (ie. M.reddit.com) got a redesign which has screwed loads of stuff up (can't even see usernames of those who have submitted posts on /hot) which makes everything cartoonish, moved the "share" buttons to where voting used to be, and is overall just a bit crappy - without mentioning some of the bugs they have such as a giant white bar on every page.

It sucks because I love reddit, but it will be EOL for the people who made it what it is in about 3-5 years

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

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Post by pedrogpimenta »

I'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 audio, but it's not documented anywhere (found on stackoverflow, I think). But of course, playing two files at once and syncing them is bound to break, specially on slow networks.

For a website dedicated to sharing stuff from all around the web (reddit didn't even have image hosting until a few years ago), it is really a dick move that you can't share stuff from reddit elsewhere.

It's a shame. Reddit is merely a shell of what it used to be, sadly.

Edit: You seem to have the same problem with video :(

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

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Post by say_it_as_it_is »

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.

The new reddit is blazingly fast for an SPA, too. It has a <10 second time to interactive, after all. Front end development followed Google and Facebook right into the abyss.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

gruez wrote: post #29
RspecMAuthortah wrote: post #4

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Not sure why you are downvoted. But some subs like politics and worldnews are just pure propaganda and bots driven at this point.

>are just pure propaganda and bots driven at this point I'm curious, what's your criteria for propaganda? Is it just content/viewpoints that you don't like? Likewise, for bots. Can link to some examples of bot-like behavior that's happening on reddit? Preferably provide hard evidence of some kind, like the ones done for this story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/so...

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

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Post by kingofpandora »

gonehome wrote: post #68
DavidSJ wrote: post #63

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The use-by-default setting never seems to stick for me. But so far it’s still been possible to substitute old in the URL.

Yeah, they forcefully unset it every few days. One of the more insulting parts of their UX. I bet forcefully unsetting it bumps their usage metrics for the new site though.

It has never unset for me.

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

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Post by rndgermandude »

gonehome wrote: post #48
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 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.

The developers and designers had to justify getting paid, and they do that by producing features and a new "user experience". And if it's slow and rough, even better, job security for the foreseeable future until you fix the stuff.

Throw in the second-system effect they fell for in my humble opinion, and you got your explanation of what's going on.

Next up: Rinse and repeat.

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

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Post by 0-_-0 »

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.

I'm glad about the new reddit design, it helped me stop using the website.
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