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Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by yrro »

obilgic wrote: post #14
Trasmatta wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the new Reddit design is such a step back in terms of both performance and user experience. It was probably optimized in some way to increase engagement, but it's just really bad. On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.

Probably unpopular opinion on HN: but I really prefer the new design. finally something that doesn't scream "we have a sub-culture" but rather welcomes new users.

The new design literally doesn't work!

Trying to follow a link is now all but impossible - clicking a link takes me to the comments page. Not what I want. But on that page, the link that I expect to see at the top of the page doesn't load! So I shrug and go back to the index page, and now the link or image or whatever is attached to the post is gone from _that_ page too. Reloading the page doesn't fix it. So for that particular link or image, it's now impossible to even see it let alone have any hope of ever viewing the image or following the link...

And I've given up trying to write comments or upvote/downvote anything because usually tapping the arrows or whatever just redirects me to a page saying you've signed out, we'll sign you back in... followed by .... a reload where I'm back into the same state where I appear to be logged in but any interaction redirects me back to this page ....

The new design is complete garbage and I cannot understand how it has been allowed to get this bad.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by pradn »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #21

Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…

The biggest subreddits have always been awful. The best way to use reddit is to subscribe to niche subreddits, unsubscribe to the big ones, and avoid the temptation to see the /popular or /all pages.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by Trasmatta »

obilgic wrote: post #35
Trasmatta wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it about the old design that screams "we have a sub-culture" to you? For me, it's just a clean, simple, fast interface.

sticking to a very old design, and refusing to update and adapt to current design patterns and styles while everything about technology/devices and how we use them changes daily: feels like a sub-culture

Well they tried to use "current design patterns and styles" for the redesign, and it led to a bloated, slow, bad user experience. That's either an indictment of modern web patterns or just a bad implementation of them. I think it's a bit of both.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by nend »

obilgic wrote: post #14
Trasmatta wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the new Reddit design is such a step back in terms of both performance and user experience. It was probably optimized in some way to increase engagement, but it's just really bad. On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.

Probably unpopular opinion on HN: but I really prefer the new design. finally something that doesn't scream "we have a sub-culture" but rather welcomes new users.

I find the new design horrendous if you're not signed in to an account. There's so many dark-patterns, it makes the site completely unusable. I suppose there's some metrics they optimize for that drove those decisions.

When logged in, the new design is fine I think. There's a couple minor annoyances, but nothing that makes we want to go and use old.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by criddell »

obilgic wrote: post #35
Trasmatta wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it about the old design that screams "we have a sub-culture" to you? For me, it's just a clean, simple, fast interface.

sticking to a very old design, and refusing to update and adapt to current design patterns and styles while everything about technology/devices and how we use them changes daily: feels like a sub-culture

Do you get that vibe from Craigslist?

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by obilgic »

Trasmatta wrote: post #43
obilgic wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sticking to a very old design, and refusing to update and adapt to current design patterns and styles while everything about technology/devices and how we use them changes daily: feels like a sub-culture

Well they tried to use "current design patterns and styles" for the redesign, and it led to a bloated, slow, bad user experience. That's either an indictment of modern web patterns or just a bad implementation of them. I think it's a bit of both.

> it led to a bloated, slow, bad user experience

are you sure that this isn't mostly true for HN crowd? I have seen more and more people participate in reddit recently.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by lebaux »

obilgic wrote: post #4

Reddit is following the steps of Facebook: copying other's features. They have a live streaming platform, they added something similar to discord for chats. what's next?

Both chat and their streaming seems pretty dead. They are trying to hard to be big boy social network.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by tmpz22 »

dawnerd wrote: post #37
isatty wrote: post #28

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I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage. Normally I don’t express such strong sentiment on HN but I’ve been a Reddit user for 10 years and I genuinely like the communities, but not enough to suffer through the new website.

Not even just the redesign. It's the constant forcing you to download the app, the broken amp layout (which is really just being used to trick google into showing them first). The site is just extremely hostile now if you don't use the app or sign in.

Yesterday I tried to visit https://reddit.com/r/gaming and received an infinite loading indicator through multiple refreshes until I gave up. It felt like loadshedding where they were encountering an issue and decided to drop my traffic, which is not a good UX.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by justaman »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #21

Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…

It certainly is a propaganda tool. I don't have concrete proof just yet, but I suspect subs like /r/blackpeopletwitter are being heavily manipulated. Comments deleted en mass and rabid vote manipulation are a regular occurrence.
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