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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by fphhotchips »

Haydos585x2 wrote: post #145
eksemplar wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 nationa…

I agree, the redesign isn't great but that's not what killed it for me. The same discussions will keep happening there with no changes. I've had the same thoughts as you about discussing with teenagers. /r/Australia isn't particularly racist or astroturfed but there is still a lot of times I'm amazed at what gets upvoted. /r/bjj is a good place for jiu jitsu content but the same stuff is posted across every network a…

You would have seen that stat about Australians spending more time on Reddit than Facebook or Porn recently, right? That's why /r/Australia is bad now - it went and got popular.

This cycle of social networks starting lesser known but higher quality and ending popular but rubbish is inevitable because the bottom 25% of users have far more capability to drag a social network into the dirt than the top 25% could ever drag it back up.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by sundvor »

firefoxd wrote: post #6

Note the little grayed out "go to mobile site" link. It actually makes you believe it is a link. But it is not. It makes you think that if you click it will take you somewhere else, so you don't want to click and lose the current page. Dark pattern at it's best.

Came to comment on exactly this.

I used to click _CONTINUE_ because I'd already gone to the mobile site and just wanted to close the #$@%!$* pop-up. And would be taken to Play Store.

But as you point out, "take me to the mobile site" isn't actually a proper link. It makes me think I'll lose my current page, when I'm in fact already here. This is what should be named Continue, and the other should be "Get The Reddit App". Bastards.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by izacus »

iamdave wrote: post #120
Rapzid wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I've come to loathe this about social networking sites. Twitter (which I use for sports buffoonery and hot takes from the community) is the absolute worst about this. "Hey your friend did a thing, go congratulate them" "Hey, a friend knows this person. Go follow them too" "Hey, your friend just posted a picture of spaghetti, go signal your approval" Hey. How about I check in and interact with my friends on my time in…

This is why I still use a third party Twitter client (Talon in my case) - it never added any of that stuff, still shows just the timeline.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by sincerely »

zerostar07 wrote: post #147
kristianp wrote: post #108

People are complaining about reddit here, but it applies equally to every other online company, especially bloody Medium! It's the main reason I wish people would stop using Medium to host their blogs, because there's an uncloseable "open in app" button in the middle of the content.

Medium is ridiculous. only readable with reader mode.

The sad part is that the only reason people use Medium in the first place is because it started out as a place where you could guarantee the content would be readable and relatively nicely presented...

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by sincerely »

NVRM wrote: post #69
daenz wrote: post #14

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

HN is completly flawn by marketing actions. This isn't new but it's now very bad...

Why would someone pay money to promote a complaint about reddit's redesign ?

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by danielskogly »

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…

You can browse with reddit compact by simply adding .compact to the end of a URL. It's not the most beautiful thing in the world, but it's functional and really fast. Eg. https://www.reddit.com/.compact

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by jjcm »

goostavos wrote: post #114
kirubakaran wrote: post #10

I'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 what it is is that we associate the old design with good times. We associate it with those deep, late night discussions about something esoteric from back when reddit was a smaller but more knowledgable community. Like any social site, as it grows the average quality decreases. Today reddit is the #10 most popular site worldwide, and largely the discussions are bandwagony / low effort. For me when I see the site under the new design, I don't see any of the nostalgia I have associated with it from a decade of use. I just see all the stuff I dislike about what the site has become.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by yetanother1980 »

tomjen3 wrote: post #111
Rapzid wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

At this point I don't know why anybody would have the Facebook app installed. You can't even read messages on it. But yeah notifications in general needs a strong enforcement from Google if we don't have to turn them off completely.

Try mbasic.facebook.com

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by throwawayqdhd »

eksemplar wrote: post #133
goostavos wrote: post #114

Earlier 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.

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 nationa…

r/worldnews is the best example of Reddit's degradation. Thousands upon thousands of comments with no real insight but the same memes and pop culture quotes.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by fphhotchips »

dionidium wrote: post #73
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.

>All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep, and they're toast I doubt it. Unlike Digg, Reddit has community lock-in. If your content is generic memes and videos and general-interest news articles, then you can switch without caring too much if everybody else follows right away. But if you’re in a small city sub or the sub of some niche hobby or interest,…

Lots of those subs are already migrating large chunks of community to Discord.
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