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Re: "This community is available in the app"

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Post by terminaljunkid »

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 UX is horrible in my opinion. For anyone who knows to, say rename a file, Instagram UI / UX appear worst of class. You can't find many settings. Stories are horrible design made for few use cases, Captions appear like comments etc.. etc.. They didn't even have a functioning dark mode till Android provided one.

But it continues to be popular. Arguably young people are stupid. I mean most people of my age use Instagram and I will have to.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

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Post by dillonmckay »

hadlock wrote: post #113
sillysaurusx wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Reddit is the flavor of the month. It's been a long month, but before Reddit there was digg, kuro5hin, plastic, something awful, slashdot. Myspace was the flavor of the month. Now it is facebook/imgur/snapchat. But before it was friendster, AIM, MSN, ICQ etc. Maybe next it will be Discord or Son Of Discord. The wheel continues to turn. I have zero faith Reddit will command the market share it does today, in 2030.

Friendster should have licensed their patents to Facebook, not sold them.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

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Post by newscracker »

thewhitetulip wrote: post #84

I 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?

> I gave up Quota when they forced logins

If you were using it just to read answers, you can still do that with a tiny bit of effort and avoid logging in. Just put a ? at the end of the URL (it’s originally a parameter called “shared”, which would be added as ?shared=1). It will then assume you’re coming from a search engine link and let you in without the login popup.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#137

Post by newscracker »

Reddit has been trying many user hostile approaches and dark patterns to push its app. I’ve been terribly annoyed by this arm twisting, but I won’t use the app. I have reduced visiting reddit because of such annoyances.

On mobile, sometimes closing the tab and reopening works, sometimes changing networks works, and the most recent one I’ve seen is to request for the desktop site, which has worked consistently even though it makes reading a bit more difficult.

With iOS not allowing the user to set a default app, using a third party app like Apollo as an alternative to the browser isn’t convenient either. It’s either view/use the official reddit app or continue with the browser.

I wonder if browsing with the Apollo or another app (like Narwhal) also throws the same message and restricts reading on the platform.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

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Post by TeMPOraL »

fredgrott wrote: post #130
thaumaturgy wrote: post #30

Reddit 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…

What Reddit needs is to stop treating users like cattle. Not a UX trickery lipstick on a pig.

Re: "This community is available in the app"

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Post by bnt »

Spoom wrote: post #92
dleslie wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Which would be a shame, given the official Reddit app is a pile of shit

Re: "This community is available in the app"

#140

Post by bnt »

bob1029 wrote: post #122
Terr_ wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Current digg.com has nothing to do with the original Digg.
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