If only reddit was run like HN. I heard of competition sites popping up but not sure what happened to them since.
"This community is available in the app"
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#122What 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?"
Look at digg.com today... I can't say their shenanigans have played out all that well for them. Perhaps Reddit engineers should use this as a cautionary tale during UX design meetings.
The oldest and most stable online communities seem to have the slowest-changing interfaces.
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#124If people wanted a new Reddit, which is to say a website in front of Usenet that is social and allows voting, what other features would you find interesting?
I'm sure there's someone reading these comments who is looking for a side project, and this may be interesting to them... let's help them out.
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#125in the web brower, i can open anything in a new tab and come back six weeks later.
in the app, i have one view, and if i ignore the app for an hour it reverts to the default state.
isn't it obvious which one i want? yes! it's the one that takes features away from me and makes me miserable!
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#126If people wanted a new Reddit, which is to say a website in front of Usenet that is social and allows voting, what other features would you find interesting? I'm sure there's someone reading these comments who is looking for a side project, and this may be interesting to them... let's help them out.
Features? No idea.
The thing that’s needed though is content, the problem that these spinoff Reddits have is that they seem to think catching the runoff is a good idea to build a community.
New reddit, whoever you may be, don’t populate yourselves with the communities that get banned from reddit.
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#127Reddit 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…
Adding to that, I can't run ad blocker as easily on the App.
Btw, I use RedReader or Slide for browsing reddit on mobile. Especially RedReader is fast, and looks simple in AMOLED black theme. Both are open source, though they both miss few features.
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#128I gave up on read Quora when they forced logins I will give up on reddit if they do the same. Isn't visits a valid criteria? Why force a mobile app?
Basically I have some toy accounts for those sites, in names that read somewhat like Fortran variables, sans meaning.
Currently using this thing called 33mail. Temp-mail works most times too, but 33mail forwards me the emails so I can even use forgot password option. On a relevant note, there are few websites that provide temporary phone numbers if you're from US/Canada, or in contexts US/Canada temporary phone number helps.
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#129If people wanted a new Reddit, which is to say a website in front of Usenet that is social and allows voting, what other features would you find interesting? I'm sure there's someone reading these comments who is looking for a side project, and this may be interesting to them... let's help them out.
I do not know if it makes financial sense, but I would be very interested in trying out a new Reddit with a more representative subreddit moderators.
Currently, moderators are selected with little input from the community members. Because mods produce the content policies of a community, members don't have the most effective tools to effect the policies of their communities (where they can spend a lot of time and effort).
Ideally, moderators would be selected by vote but that's a challenge of its own. I would still like to see more democratic forms of mod selection, it would also keep them accountable from abusing their power (arbitrary banning, censoring and/or taking bribes from corporations).
Re: "This community is available in the app"
#130Reddit 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…
Its an interesting design problem ie UX. If I force log-ins or abusive pop-ups I end up making the problem worse.
What Reddit needs is a very creative UX solution. Something of value that gets presented in the app but is not inthe mobile-web version delivered via browser.
Some app interaction rather than some extra content. Something interactive that is exclusive to the mobile app. Not something big interaction wise but just enough value that people start using the mobile app over mobile web via browser.
thanks for user that posted the question as I have a UX interview with a Chicago startup that is somewhat facing this problem and several other UX problems around driving their mobile app use upwards. The question help me formulate how to solve it.