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 6nf » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

reddit.com -> hamburger menu -> request desktop site. I've done this so many times now it's basically all muscle memory at this point.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#22

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

Ancalagon wrote: post #3

And please go back to the old reddit, before the redesign. I can't stand it.

Bah, just be an API endpoint and let everyone use their own client. The only value in Reddit is the centralization and organization of users and subreddits.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by Rjevski » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

Ancalagon wrote: post #3

And please go back to the old reddit, before the redesign. I can't stand it.

The redesign completely kills my 12-inch MacBook by freezing Safari’s UI for a good second or two while it’s loading all that shit JavaScript.

I can load actual apps faster than their content-focused website.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#24

Post by tjpnz » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

They're pushing the native app hard because they want to serve you ads.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by doodhwala » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

Ancalagon wrote: post #3

And please go back to the old reddit, before the redesign. I can't stand it.

I hope you are aware that you can opt out of the redesign.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by dragonwriter » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:04 AM UTC

tjpnz wrote: post #24

They're pushing the native app hard because they want to serve you ads.

They do that on the mobile website, so they clearly can do that without pushing the app.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:04 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…

I realised the irony as I submitted that,but honestly, it's how I browse Reddit, what little I do of that any more.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by chii » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:05 AM UTC

underwater wrote: post #11

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.

The Reddit .compact view is great, and should be how mobile sites work. All server render, and a tiny bit of interactivity. It's miles better than the real mobile view.

Try it yourself at : reddit.com/.compact

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by InclinedPlane » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:05 AM UTC

I use reddit's "compact" theme on mobile: https://www.reddit.com/.compact

So far it's been a universally superior experience to the proper mobile site or the app.