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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by doubleunplussed »

pdkl95 wrote: post #102
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.

> they're about to Digg themselves into a amusingly-recursive grave "You'll get over it" > All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep This is fundamental risk to any business that depends on a social space. The best explanation of the mechanics that create this risk is Joe Peacock's talk[1] at NOTACON 8 about the time fark.com made the same mistake... and…

As I recall, people got over it.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by twhb »

I see threads like this all the time, and they don't make sense.

Reddit is an ad company. It's not an effort to build you a nice website, it's a machine for taking your time and attention from you then selling it.

Asking Reddit to "please stop" grabbing at better attention hooks is like asking McDonald's to "please stop" raising prices.

The right way to say this is timeless: refuse to make the trade. If Reddit goes too far, close the tab. That, in bulk, is how you get a response.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#163

Post by tannhaeuser »

Rjevski wrote: post #23
Ancalagon wrote: post #3

And please go back to the old reddit, before the redesign. I can't stand it.

The redesign completely kills my 12-inch MacBook by freezing Safari’s UI for a good second or two while it’s loading all that shit JavaScript. I can load actual apps faster than their content-focused website.

Reddit went all-in on React for a content-based site, a fool's errand you'd expect of novice web developers.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#164

Post by abandonliberty »

twhb wrote: post #162

I see threads like this all the time, and they don't make sense. Reddit is an ad company. It's not an effort to build you a nice website, it's a machine for taking your time and attention from you then selling it. Asking Reddit to "please stop" grabbing at better attention hooks is like asking McDonald's to "please stop" raising prices. The right way to say this is timeless: refuse to make the trade. If Reddit goes t…

Unless you actually manage to affect the behavior of other people by highlighting what Reddit is doing.

However, often people complain and do nothing, or complain and keep buying the company's product. (e.g. games with microtransactions)

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#165

Post by edem »

I switched off all notifications from all apps years ago. I'd rather be in a "pull" mode than a "push" mode especially when they push shit downstream. Now I only read what I'm interested in when I want and how I want.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#166

Post by isostatic »

abandonliberty wrote: post #164
twhb wrote: post #162

I see threads like this all the time, and they don't make sense. Reddit is an ad company. It's not an effort to build you a nice website, it's a machine for taking your time and attention from you then selling it. Asking Reddit to "please stop" grabbing at better attention hooks is like asking McDonald's to "please stop" raising prices. The right way to say this is timeless: refuse to make the trade. If Reddit goes t…

Unless you actually manage to affect the behavior of other people by highlighting what Reddit is doing. However, often people complain and do nothing, or complain and keep buying the company's product. (e.g. games with microtransactions)

How do other people using games with microtransactions, or using reddit, or watching TV with adverts, harm me?

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#168

Post by throwaway77384 »

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.

www.tildes.net

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#169

Post by abc-xyz »

isostatic wrote: post #166
abandonliberty wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you actually manage to affect the behavior of other people by highlighting what Reddit is doing. However, often people complain and do nothing, or complain and keep buying the company's product. (e.g. games with microtransactions)

How do other people using games with microtransactions, or using reddit, or watching TV with adverts, harm me?

They harm you by making this kind of behavior acceptable. You may not care about X (who might be spamming people to download an app even thought you've rejected over a hundred times), but suddenly Y (that you love) sees how successful X has become doing this sort of behavior and begin to engage in the same behavior because there's little to no backlash in doing so. This is especially a problem when it comes to privacy because the average person doesn't understand the current and future dangers of the information being collected, and you're often forced to use these evil services because that's where everybody else is.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

#170

Post by methyl »

chii wrote: post #29
underwater wrote: post #11

Earlier 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.

The Reddit .compact view is great, and should be how mobile sites work. All server render, and a tiny bit of interactivity. It's miles better than the real mobile view. Try it yourself at : reddit.com/.compact

The only thing wrong is the font size, should be at least 16px for better readability and usability.
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