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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by orev »

tgtweak wrote: post #41

The app doesn't have ad blockers and they can spam notifications, hence the push. Also I'm sure somewhere "mobile users" is a metric in a company valuation equation. Pinterest is the worst offender of a mobile app that doesn't need to exist since the web counterpart can do 100% of the job. This being a product that leveraged JavaScript in browser bookmarks to get "pins" without an app or extension. When Reddit stoppe…

Don’t forget that apps have access to more data on your phone than when accessed through the web site.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by Rapzid »

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've had to start disabling notifications on just about everything due similar tactics across the app-o-system. Facebook spam was getting nuts; phone vibrating at 2AM because somebody I haven't had contact with in years has updated a picture? Google has even been getting really bad with TV show episode availability updates for shows I have never watched or searched for? Or is that some other app? I think the shark is well below us on notifications.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by poe876 »

slg wrote: post #57
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.

I like to think of Voat as 'redditified' 4chan.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by arrizalamin »

Ancalagon wrote: post #45
doodhwala wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah I am. But im not always logged in (such as on my work laptop), and the redesign blasts ads and is much less useable than the old design.

Install a redirector extension (https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect) to redirect reddit.com url to old.reddit.com

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by mdellavo »

zmmmmm wrote: post #48

It's kind of fascinating that seems like there is some kind of force that drives popular web sites to eventually self-sabotage themselves out of existence. Reddit seems to be having a good go at it now. I sort of get how it happens but I can't quite understand how the level of stupidity required by management is achieved in practice to actually do it.

they need to make money

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by shakna »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #52
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.

The poster.

> You retain the rights to your copyrighted content or information that you submit to reddit ("user content") except as described below.

> By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

> You agree that you have the right to submit anything you post, and that your user content does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary right of any other party.

The individual users retain the rights to their comments and posts and so on, Reddit just gets permission to display them.

So, a mod would probably have to gain permission from every user before federating, legally speaking.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

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…

I think attributing the difference between HN and Reddit to design choices is inaccurate.

The biggest difference is that HN has only a tiny fraction of the number of users that Reddit does. HN feels pretty similar to the way Reddit felt ten years ago when it was much less popular.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by Ancalagon »

arrizalamin wrote: post #65
Ancalagon wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I am. But im not always logged in (such as on my work laptop), and the redesign blasts ads and is much less useable than the old design.

Install a redirector extension ( https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect ) to redirect reddit.com url to old.reddit.com

Oh hey thats a good idea, thank you!
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