An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
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Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
#2I'll pass, thanks. It didn't work for me when Quora did it, it won't work when Reddit does it.
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#3They've been making increasingly more user hostile choice lately.
Digg lessons weren't apparently not learned
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#4Ooh, so it's becoming another walled garden? Just what the internet needs!
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#5This currently only affects the mobile version of the site.
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#6I'm on Reddit, but I would probably have never signed up if I were not able to read comments without login.
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#7They've been making increasingly more user hostile choice lately. Digg lessons weren't apparently not learned
Learning lessons? They're making their website worse on purpose! They don't want people to use the Reddit website — they want people to use the app, because that's where all the ads and tracking is.
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#8Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone.
Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too.
Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't need all these walled gardens, and it's worrying how this is going to affect how info is preserved for future generations.
Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
#9Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone. Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too. Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't…
I've been experiencing it either way on my phone this week. As I'm quite judicious about using "private" sessions for everything I suspect its been under a/b test.
As you say, its not present on ud. or old.
Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
#10Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone. Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too. Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't…
I've been experiencing it either way on my phone this week. As I'm quite judicious about using "private" sessions for everything I suspect its been under a/b test. As you say, its not present on ud. or old.
Yeah, this feature being part of an A/B test makes sense.
Hopefully the results of said test show enough of a drop in traffic/conversions for the variation with the 'login requirement' that they drop the idea altogether.