Shameless plug: I started building 20-things.com as a similar-feature community but with goal to never use dark patterns. More competition is good. I posted a Show: HN but it seems to have been buried/blocked as it got no attention whatsoever. I would love to hear your feedback/thoughts/ideas.
"This community is available in the app"
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#92Reddit has been a/b testing behavior like this for months. Multiple different popups with variations on "view this in the app"; in some cases the popup is on every single page load, sometimes only once. They started blurring images on select subreddits with a message that you could only view the sub in their app. Okay, I know they're chasing one of two things here: a higher level of revenue from the advertising they…
I've started using third party apps to access Reddit.
I'm convinced they're going to pull a Twitter and privatize their APIs, disabling third party apps.
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#93At least https://i.reddit.com/ still works
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#94It's really sad to watch Reddit being slowly destroyed like that, one user-hostile feature after the other. All of it for short term gains. For me the threshold to leave will be when old.reddit.com will not be available anymore. At that point it'll be pretty easy. I already spend a lot less time on the website than before.
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#95The whole web feels like a hostile user experience these days. Every site you visit you must... - figure out how to disagree to ad tracking (Sometimes imposible if you want to use the site) - decline cookies - decline to receive their newsletter - Decline to download their app - decline to receive notifications. It’s painful and ridiculous.
Or you browse with NoScript and UBlock and just don't visit the sites that break.
I’ve got UBlock, but you still have to deal with the UI. No script breaks too much stuff doesn’t it?
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#96What 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?"
Yes, the people who built Reddit no longer run Reddit.
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#97They've also started growth hacking bullshit by A/B testing sending PM digests of subs they feel you haven't visited enough: https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/dw7frl/community_remi...
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#98Is there any way to sandbox Apps on Android?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I just tried, and I can only use my adblocker to block the element that requests I login. My scrolling is still stopped, and I can't see anymore of a user's photos. Am I missing something?
IIRC there's an "overflow: hidden" style on or something like that. Delete it and the site seems to work fine.
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#100Reddit is blocked on the level of /etc/hosts on all of my machines... so... :)