Please stop asking me to use the app • Hacker News Board

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by underwater » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

colanderman wrote: post #7

I'm surprised that's their only problem with the mobile site. I purposely do not follow Reddit links because they show me a spinner for 7 seconds before showing the text of self posts. I can only assume that this delay to show a kilobyte of text is purposeful and meant to further steer users to the app, and not simply gross engineering incompetence, since the desktop site loads instantly. (Though, thank you to the OP…

Ironically the mobile site is a full single page app, while the desktop site (or at least the old one) was mostly server rendered. It's not impossible to create a fast mobile client rendered site (Twitter have done well) but it's certainly not as easy as it is with plain old HTML.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by qrbLPHiKpiux » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

And I still request desktop site. This is Digg 3.0

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by function_seven » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

myf01d wrote: post #2

Please stop forcing the old.reddit.com subdomain on us

That’s the only way to get to the normal reddit though. If you don’t add the “old.” to the link, then you end up in the dark pattern this post is complaining about.

(Apologies if I missed a joke there)

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by daenz » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:55 AM UTC

75 points in 20 minutes? How are there that many people browsing /newest?

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by williamscales » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Reddit's recent tactics have incidentally topped /r/assholedesign lately, such as using a fake loading screen for the app-pushing ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/8k10c7/not_g... ), a Facebook-esque obfuscation of ad-posts in the app ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/85liof/how_r... ), and mobile notifications for subreddits you don't follow ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/co…

I was about to type out the comment "I bet most mobile users use third party apps, that would kill them". But then I remembered that same comment surely was typed many times when Twitter announced the same.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by nunez » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Reddit's recent tactics have incidentally topped /r/assholedesign lately, such as using a fake loading screen for the app-pushing ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/8k10c7/not_g... ), a Facebook-esque obfuscation of ad-posts in the app ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/85liof/how_r... ), and mobile notifications for subreddits you don't follow ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/co…

When that happens, I will finally be more productive with my life and stop using Reddit. I already hate how much of a walled-garden Facebook is; it would be a shame for Reddit to go in that direction (wrt third party apps)

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by chc4 » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

I exclusively use `i.reddit.com` on my phone so that I hit the old mobile site. It is amazing how much better it is than the slow and confusing piece of trash the new UI is.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by minimaxir » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

daenz wrote: post #14

75 points in 20 minutes? How are there that many people browsing /newest?

High point velocity for an agreeable issue isn't too surprising. It's when there's a high point velocity for a marketing piece/bad thought piece that's suspicious.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by ceejayoz » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

aloner wrote: post #8

myf01d wrote: post #2

Please stop forcing the old.reddit.com subdomain on us

if you have an account, you can disable the redesign.

For now, sure. I can't imagine it'll be available permanently.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by superkuh » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #10

I'm thankful for their new design, actually. After many years of trying, I have now managed to successfully kick my Reddit habit completely and have gained precious hours in my day.

Same here, although I left because of the massive increase in censorship and gentrification right before the big redesign.