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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by grzm »

myf01d wrote: post #44
myf01d wrote: post #2

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

Even though I don't give a single fuck about the downvotes, I really don't understand the extent of downvoting abuse on this website. And for some reason, I am unable to do downvotes. OP clearly messed with the original link and added the "old" subdomain. What the fuck am I being downvoted here for?

I believe the threshold to be able to downvote is 500 karma. You'll also likely be down voted for commenting on downvotes, as it's against the guidelines:

> "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As for your original comment, people may have misunderstood what you meant regarding the submitted url.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by gremlinsinc »

ajross wrote: post #39

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.

Anyone know, who owns the content on reddit? Could the mod/admin of a sub, export all conversations to another framework, or a federated one? Assuming there was an easy way to do so.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by nunez »

s-shellfish wrote: post #34
nunez wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's possible to de-noise Reddit if you're picky about your subscriptions and avoid /r/all. Reddit is actually quite useful for me because of that.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I am a big fan of Reddit, give them a few dollars every month. I just stopped reading reddit on my iPhone: I don’t like the mobile app and the mobile web. I use the desktop version on my iPad Pro and MacBook. I don;t need to read Reddit on my phone.

I really wish they would write a great mobile web app. I use Facebook once a week to catch up on family stuff, and go all mobile. I also use Twitter sometimes, always mobile.

I try to avoid other sites that try to force me to install an app. I can do without their content.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by williamscales »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #54

I am a big fan of Reddit, give them a few dollars every month. I just stopped reading reddit on my iPhone: I don’t like the mobile app and the mobile web. I use the desktop version on my iPad Pro and MacBook. I don;t need to read Reddit on my phone. I really wish they would write a great mobile web app. I use Facebook once a week to catch up on family stuff, and go all mobile. I also use Twitter sometimes, always mob…

There are great third party mobile apps for Reddit, like Sync for Reddit and many others too — give them a try!

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by poe876 »

ajross wrote: post #39

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.

I disagree. Reddit has done a good job of branching itself out across various diverse communities, and has been experimenting with geographical location based customization among other things which I feel should be enough of a buffer against going down Digg's path.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by slg »

ajross wrote: post #39

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.

The funny thing is that Reddit completely inadvertently killed one of the possible heirs in Voat. That site had potential to steal the traditional Reddit audience due to Reddit's mismanagement. However Reddit's crackdown on hate on the site caused a big exodus of problem users to Voat. The end result is that Voat is now a vile alt-right wasteland that presents no threat of stealing Reddit's mainstream audience.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dingo_bat wrote: post #38
toomuchtodo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There isn’t, but there isn’t any in Reddit.com the website either.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by [deleted] »

nunez wrote: post #53
s-shellfish wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's possible to de-noise Reddit if you're picky about your subscriptions and avoid /r/all. Reddit is actually quite useful for me because of that.

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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by ploggingdev »

> now it's a floating bar at the bottom when reading comments that for some reason I can't get rid of despite the x button

The x button works for me, but when I load an other page it reappears. So reddit wants me to dismiss the floating bar for every page I visit on the site.

I'm curious to learn about the thinking behind building out such dark patterns. Have the reddit employees tried using the site on mobile while logged out for extended periods of time? If the answer is yes, I would love to know how they justify building out such a feature. Is there pressure to grow the app installs metric? It sometimes feels like reddit is losing touch with the community.

There's another variation of the popup where the button to install the app is huge and the link to proceed to the mobile site is tiny. It's also pretty easy to accidentally click on the button to download the app. Here's an image : https://i.imgur.com/rSS8HoI.png

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