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Re: "This community is available in the app"

#51

Post by willberman »

Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser.

I'm not a big application design junkey, but it's behavior like this that makes me appreciate the simplicity of hacker news. A few standard concepts implemented in their most basic form. No changes in the name of more user engagement.

I understand that Reddit and Instagram's primary motive is to make money, but these sorts of "features" remove me from their pool of potential customers.

I'd like to see a move towards a purely data based web where I get to choose how the data is displayed. I know a semantic web paired with a standard set of user interface components chosen by the user wouldn't be as profitable as the current internet, but I would prefer it.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#53

Post by krtkush »

willberman wrote: post #51

Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. I'm not a big application design junkey, but it's behavior like this that makes me appreciate the simplicity of hacker news. A few standard concepts implemented in their most basic form. No changes in the name of more user engagement. I understand that Reddit and Instagram's primary moti…

> Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser.

For the curious, adblockers can get rid of the annoying pop-ups.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#54

Post by J_cst »

doubleunplussed wrote: post #27
fireattack wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is one of a few websites that I feel dedicated app works much better than browser, but I use 3rd party one(s).

Is there any app that can essentially open threads in a new tab like in a browser? This is the one thing keeping me in the mobile browser. Well, that and my girlfriends reddit app seems to fail to load GIFs a decent fraction of the time.

I use boost for Android and I find it enjoyable and flawless. I have no business with boost, I'm just an happy user.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#55

Post by fireattack »

bad_user wrote: post #37
fireattack wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is one of a few websites that I feel dedicated app works much better than browser, but I use 3rd party one(s).

I don't agree, for one b/c Reddit is a links aggregator and opening links works best in a full browser instead of a shitty in-app web view, plus it's the little things like ability to copy/paste or go back to a previous page, that are sometimes emulated in native apps, but never work well. But even if you think Reddit works better in a native app for you, that's by design. Reddit is making the web experience shitty o…

You can simply configure web pages to open directly in browser.

And a dedicated app is able to handle certain links better than native browsers, like RES on desktop. One example would be to directly open the image instead of Imgur page.

Also if we're talking about Android, I don't feel webview is too much different from a native browser now; all the histories, auto-fills are shared with my main browser (Chrome). Of course, it is just my PERSONAL use case.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#56

Post by Terr_ »

blhack wrote: post #23

What a strange thing to be this user hostile. When stuff like this happens, people look for alternatives, and even if they don’t switch immediately, this really erodes any loyalty they have to your brand/service. I think Facebook is experiencing a similar thing. A frustrating amount of my network has quit, which makes planning events more difficult (and is frustrating). The difference for Facebook is that they have e…

"Dear Reddit, have you forgotten that I switched to you from Digg when they pulled this kind of bullshit?"

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#57

Post by mirimir »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #45
blhack wrote: post #23

What a strange thing to be this user hostile. When stuff like this happens, people look for alternatives, and even if they don’t switch immediately, this really erodes any loyalty they have to your brand/service. I think Facebook is experiencing a similar thing. A frustrating amount of my network has quit, which makes planning events more difficult (and is frustrating). The difference for Facebook is that they have e…

An alternative to Reddit? It's a monopoly. Where are you going to go? Voat? They can be as horrible to their users as they want. As long as they have cat pictures on the front page, nobody cares enough to change anything. I think we're all getting exactly what is deserved by collectively allowing a monopoly to form. (I'm not suggesting there should be legal action. I'm saying, by the laws of exponential curves and po…

How about Snew?[0] I see TFA.[1] So maybe everything.

But I guess that replies aren't implemented :(

> Snew is an open-source parody client for reddit.

> It is a client forked from the reddit source code that runs entirely in your browser.

> Snew attempts to undo reddit's pervasive censorship

> Content is pulled directly from the reddit api and pushshift.io

0) https://snew.notabug.io/r/all/

1) https://snew.notabug.io/r/mobileweb/comments/f2afvz/this_com...

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#58

Post by doubleunplussed »

nabakin wrote: post #36
doubleunplussed wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any app that can essentially open threads in a new tab like in a browser? This is the one thing keeping me in the mobile browser. Well, that and my girlfriends reddit app seems to fail to load GIFs a decent fraction of the time.

I'm not sure what you mean. So you can switch back and forth between threads with ease?

Yes, or more like, queue them up for reading later. That's how I use reddit: scroll through the front page or whatever subreddit, middle click everything of interest, then eventually get around to reading or closing said tabs.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#59

Post by amitport »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #45
blhack wrote: post #23

What a strange thing to be this user hostile. When stuff like this happens, people look for alternatives, and even if they don’t switch immediately, this really erodes any loyalty they have to your brand/service. I think Facebook is experiencing a similar thing. A frustrating amount of my network has quit, which makes planning events more difficult (and is frustrating). The difference for Facebook is that they have e…

An alternative to Reddit? It's a monopoly. Where are you going to go? Voat? They can be as horrible to their users as they want. As long as they have cat pictures on the front page, nobody cares enough to change anything. I think we're all getting exactly what is deserved by collectively allowing a monopoly to form. (I'm not suggesting there should be legal action. I'm saying, by the laws of exponential curves and po…

It's really not a monopoly. Just the most popular service. Yes, it's currently better than the competition for some communities, but it really doesn't mean the competition doesn't exist or can't form.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#60

Post by J_cst »

cheeze wrote: post #19
fireattack wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is one of a few websites that I feel dedicated app works much better than browser, but I use 3rd party one(s).

Agree on both fronts. Reddit is way improved with an app, but the official app is trash. I prefer relay, but I know that there are many other quality apps out there that folks recommend. Feel free to comment with your favorite.

Boost (see my comment above)
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