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Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by saagarjha »

paulcole wrote: post #105
jstgord wrote: post #87

Dear Reddit, for the love of Mike .. PLEASE treat reddit as a web-first platform. You are killing the golden goose by trying to force people toward the app - by gradually removing features and usability from the mobile web site and constantly reminding people they "should" use the app. I don't want reddit as an 'app', I want reddit to be readable/scrollable on mobile and web without any form of coercion.

If you’re using Reddit on iOS or iPadOS and you’re not using Apollo, you’re doing yourself a disservice. https://apolloapp.io/ As an added bonus if you subscribe to the subreddit, /r/ApolloApp it’s like /r/ChoosingBeggarsLite with the complaints and feature requests for a free app.

I prefer Beam to Apollo, to be honest, even though it's largely unmaintained. I think the UI is much nicer.

> As an added bonus if you subscribe to the subreddit, /r/ApolloApp it’s like /r/ChoosingBeggarsLite with the complaints and feature requests for a free app.

Apollo isn't really free, is it? And I don't see what's wrong with asking for things for an app in the subreddit which seems designed for exactly that?

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

henryfjordan wrote: post #75
whatshisface wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably the duties of a Silicon Valley board member would center on running a Silicon Valley company, which a Silicon Valley CEO would be uniquely qualified to do.

This is exactly my point. They brought someone in who presumably is going to see Monthly Active Users as the metric to live or die by when what the world needs from Reddit/Twitter/FB is a more social-good focus. It might be worth it to shed a few users and lose a few ad dollars to make positive change on their platforms but with a Silicon Valley CEO on the board that is unlikely to happen.

But I think having a designated social good person on the board would encourage the other members to stop thinking about social good on their own, in the same way that hiring a CFO means the CEO stops thinking so much about finances.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by dang »

core-questions wrote: post #90
missosoup wrote: post #86

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What exactly is 'social good', in your mind?

Social good is presently defined as "whatever the mob says it is at the moment". If that mob wants to hate on something, it must be virtuous to hate it. Just go look at the front page and see what I mean.

Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by _jal »

hazz99 wrote: post #93
jstgord wrote: post #87

Dear Reddit, for the love of Mike .. PLEASE treat reddit as a web-first platform. You are killing the golden goose by trying to force people toward the app - by gradually removing features and usability from the mobile web site and constantly reminding people they "should" use the app. I don't want reddit as an 'app', I want reddit to be readable/scrollable on mobile and web without any form of coercion.

I don't think they're killing it. Anecdotally, all my friends prefer the app and the redesign to the old web client. I suspect this anecdata is supported by Reddit's metrics, otherwise they wouldn't be pushing so hard for it (barring some other long term goal) Not that I like the changes. I much prefer the old version.

I barely use Reddit anymore. The UI on mobile is intentional garbage and I do not want the bloody app.

But the desktop UI is getting worse; navigation is ridiculous and the pages are so junked up that it is actively repellant.

It is too bad. I used to actually enjoy browsing and (gasp) commenting sometimes. Now I tend to hit a single page via search and leave. Can't remember the last time I actually logged in.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by AmericanChopper »

rubyron wrote: post #115
sushid wrote: post #92

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Moreover, if I relent and click "View on app" while on mobile, it directs me to the App Store instead of opening the app to the thread I was attempting to read. At least handoff correctly if you're going to force me to use your stupid app.

Interesting. It opens on the deep link in my app every time with iPhone XS Max.

Any time I’ve worked with somebody who had to implement deep links, I’ve always heard them continuously complain about how ridiculous it is to get working.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by ihuman »

screye wrote: post #124
gonehome wrote: post #111

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They're so hostile to their own users I'm not sure they get accurate results from their metrics. - They change you back to the new design every few days. - They constantly tell you to use the app (thankfully you can disable this at least). - The old reddit design has a sidebar with helpful content, but this is not automatically present in the redesign. If you're a mod you have to manually copy that content over to th…

> new redesign on mobile web is so bad The funniest part is plenty of 3rd party apps had been doing an amazing job already. All reedit had to do was acquire one of them on the cheap or steal design cues from the ones that were most popular. Instead they created this monstrosity which till date lags behind many 3rd party apps in features and fluidity. > old.reddit RES is the only way to use reddit, and they can pry it…

> All reedit had to do was acquire one of them on the cheap or steal design cues from the ones that were most popular.

They already tried this with Alien Blue

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by gxon »

mellow2020 wrote: post #106
brownkonas wrote: post #91

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Maybe in the minority , but I think the UX of the mobile app is fantastic: * attractive card view * good actions from the list * good actions from the comments view * great performance

Yet old.reddit with RES runs circles around it. Maybe not on mobile though.

Never had any problems with RIF on mobile.

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by nzgrover »

toomim wrote: post #121
gonehome wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're so hostile to their own users I'm not sure they get accurate results from their metrics. - They change you back to the new design every few days. - They constantly tell you to use the app (thankfully you can disable this at least). - The old reddit design has a sidebar with helpful content, but this is not automatically present in the redesign. If you're a mod you have to manually copy that content over to th…

> - They change you back to the new design every few days. This is so annoying that I have to use this chrome extension to force it back to old.reddit.com: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Likewise for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

Re: Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

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Post by Benjammer »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #136
rubyron wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. It opens on the deep link in my app every time with iPhone XS Max.

Any time I’ve worked with somebody who had to implement deep links, I’ve always heard them continuously complain about how ridiculous it is to get working.

Deep links are only hard because the base concept is semantic organization of your content, so you can deep link to one thing in an organized way. If your app isn't structured to present content like this, if it has many deep workflows or ordered stages of screens/states, then yeah it's gonna be hard to deep link into page 5 of the 11 page workflow you built, that also requires authentication and a bunch of data loading.
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