Reddit was down for over two hours • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by thirdsun » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 5:45 AM UTC

tootahe45 wrote: post #243

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143

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Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

I stopped criticizing redesigns because i usually get over it, but the Reddit one makes the site at least 8x slower for me.

Same here. I doN't share msot people's outrage when it coems to redesigns, but this one only seems to have downsides.

Imagine redesigning Reddit with simple HTML, CSS and only the most necessary sprinkles of JavaScript. In my opinion it's clearly a document-based website that doesn't need to pretend being a one-page-app.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by basch » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

Iv wrote: post #220

basch wrote: post #170

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I would much rather have the feed based on trust weighting of experts or people smarter than me, than the feed trying to feed me what it thinks pleases me. Metacritic vs Netflix. Aldaily vs facebook. You dont need a consistent front page for everyone, but communities of like people should get similar front pages based on what is "best" and best shouldn't be defined as universally popular, but instead popular with som…

Well what cwkoss describes would work well for you too: you would choose your experts of choice and have them as trusted users. I would too expect some users to become trust nexuses like that.

I kind of disagree. Thats why rss failed. It requires the user to set it up before it works. And I may never leave my comfort zone, if setting up what to follow is my choice. I dont know what I dont know. If I dont know the experts to follow, guiding me to choose experts seems silly. Just do it for me. Let the experts pick the other experts.

There is a huge benefit to everybody in a community seeing the same page. Whether its hckrnews, drudge report, front page of wsj, if everybody sees the same page, there is a social water cooler effect of "hey did you see" "yeah."

I just think with the "infinitely customized to you" we are trapping people in a constant cycle of always consuming more of the same, while also fragmenting our sense of community and identity. We get stuck in the filter bubbles we choose. These two articles combined together make me feel trapped.

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by inferiorhuman » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 9:34 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #209

inferiorhuman wrote: post #190

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The redesign is objectively terrible, adding megabytes of bloat to each page load for the sweet sweet ad revenue.

The whole point of the redesign is to remove full page loads. Why are you downloading the entire payload every time?

The whole point of the redesign is to juice user engagement metrics and get that sweet, sweet ad revenue.

You don't need megabytes upon megabytes of nonsense just to avoid some full page loads. Or take al ook at something like HN where it's light enough that a full page load isn't a problem.