And please go back to the old reddit, before the redesign. I can't stand it.
redesign in terms of looks or tech wise? I like the new design
Please stop asking me to use the app
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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#132I'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.
I've been trying to pin down _why_ I've had the same reaction as you, but I really can't put my finger on it. Something about the new site just somehow puts me off. While I could mindlessly browse the old site endlessly, something about the new actively makes me want to close the tab. Either way, a good thing.
I think it's because in the new design, you do not get to choose which content to view or click on. All images are auto-expanded, leaving you with a fb-like feed rather than suggested content you can choose to dive into.
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#133I'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.
I've been trying to pin down _why_ I've had the same reaction as you, but I really can't put my finger on it. Something about the new site just somehow puts me off. While I could mindlessly browse the old site endlessly, something about the new actively makes me want to close the tab. Either way, a good thing.
The new design made me leave as well, it had been s long time coming though. Most discussions are dumb, I can’t remember the last time I had a conversation on reddit where I wasn’t the most knowledgeable person in the thread, and that’s just a waste of time.
It’s not that people are stupid, sometimes you’re simply talking to a teenager with no life experience. Often it is because people are kind of stupid. My national (r/Denmark) subreddit has devolved into a vile place for instance, I’d compare it to t_d, it’s the best “quick” comparison there is, but it’s obviously not as bad, at least not yet.
I think /r/space is the only major subreddit that I don’t dislike, and most of the smaller ones have been abandoned.
The new design being horrible was just what tipped the iceberg.
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#134At 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.
Why can't another site pop up? There was one last year with a 4(?) letter name I forget (Lyme or something?) but it failed and shut down because it's impossible to pay the server bills with only nontoxic content, apparently.
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Could build a system, that mirrors/pulls/aggregates all posts from reddit because anyone can pull those and use them via their api, and once a person 'connects' their account from reddit, it could import/transfer all comments over...for that one user... the key would be seemly duplicating all reddit, and moving their traffic to the federated version. How does archive.org get away w/ archiving reddit pages and content…
Archive.org uses the "archival library" argument of fair use.
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#136Too many mobile sites do this now; there's a reason I keep declining to use the app... BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO.
The reason is irrelevant, and they don't ask for it anyways. They just keep badgering and badgering and badgering to try to figure out WHO YOU ARE and tag your phone info/MEID across the internet... Do you really think they can't connect that info?
LinkedIn is the worst example because they represent professionals, and doing this is about as unprofessional as you can get.
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been trying to pin down _why_ I've had the same reaction as you, but I really can't put my finger on it. Something about the new site just somehow puts me off. While I could mindlessly browse the old site endlessly, something about the new actively makes me want to close the tab. Either way, a good thing.
I've been wondering the same thing. For me, I think the new site feels slightly sluggish and the design and/or implementation feels clunky. I switched back to classic though so no productivity gains for me.
Indeed, the new site is extremely sluggish (for what it is).
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Could build a system, that mirrors/pulls/aggregates all posts from reddit because anyone can pull those and use them via their api, and once a person 'connects' their account from reddit, it could import/transfer all comments over...for that one user... the key would be seemly duplicating all reddit, and moving their traffic to the federated version. How does archive.org get away w/ archiving reddit pages and content…
There are already multiple of these.
The most avid consumers of my own posts seem to bee reputation-farming robots at reddit clones, on Twitter, and the odd Wordpress blog.
Reddit publishes RSS feeds, and has a pretty robust API. The behaviour described is one consequence of these.
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#139At 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 think the future of reddit, if it doesn't fix its UX problems, is not being usurped like Digg, but being chewed up by piranhas like Craigslist. There probably won't be a multidisciplinary full-on reddit "replacement", but a bunch of sites that manage to steal large fractions of the userbase. The "long tail" can't spin off a new site for every subreddit, but it can split into several smaller tails. StackExchange is…
Reddit is nice as a platform where lots of subforums exist. Going back to maintaining a bunch of logins in a bunch of forums, each with their own security setup, would be a hell of a headache for a lot of people.
The only other ubiquitous logins are Facebook and Google, and I trust neither of them to do Reddit's job better than Reddit does (which is, admittedly, not the highest bar.)
Re: Please stop asking me to use the app
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Funny that you cite Twitter here. Their mobile site tells me I'm rate limited half the time I land on it.
I figured this would get fixed one day... But still, links are sending me to a "you're rate limited" page easily over 50% of page loads.