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 dragonwriter » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:05 AM UTC

daenz wrote: post #14

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

People browsing /comments will also come to (and potentially vote on) new, active threads.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #27

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.

Adblocking is less effective on apps, and there's greater data slurping potential.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #26

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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by s-shellfish » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

nunez wrote: post #16

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)

I do feel vastly more productive with my life without Reddit. Conversations on HN - I feel an odd kind of inclusion I never felt on Reddit, or many other places in real life, internet. More signal than noise, makes it easier for me to feel like I have focus. The design of HN also, I appreciate, seems more thought went into planning the vote system, different ways to think about communities, different values.

Knowing only the individual can see their upvotes for an individual post makes the question - is there a difference between 30 upvotes and 2, if the rank of that post is 1? Which I find simply to be, intellectually resonant (or simulating) in the way Reddit, even Google - used to be. Those places have become so noisy, which is ironic, but that's the problem with success. The problem of finding a metric to measure the thing against.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

myf01d wrote: post #2

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

There is no old.reddit.com cabal.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by inferiorhuman » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:08 AM UTC

6nf wrote: post #21

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

If only Reddit would honor the browser initiatied 'request desktop site'.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by dingo_bat » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

doodhwala wrote: post #25

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.

For now.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by dingo_bat » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #22

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.

Where's the money in that?

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by ajross » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

At this point I'm genuinely wondering if they're about to Digg themselves into a amusingly-recursive grave. All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep, and they're toast. Just like Digg.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by kenslin » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

Does anyone notice that the conversion rate of reddit links drop much with the new UI? Before, the rate is about 70%, now it is 10%. For example, a reddit comment page shows 2000 views, but there are only 200 visits detected by yourself website backend stat software.