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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 officeplant »

georgiecasey wrote: post #15
Loughla wrote: post #9

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Redditisfun is the only thing that has kept me on there (and I'm still pissed somebody stole my username). I haven't accessed the desktop site in years, because it defaults to the new reddit. It smacks of when /. changed their layout; there was a huge to-do and users lost their mind. I haven't been back there in, what, 9 years? I guess, the moral of this story is, what is the reddit replacement? Because so far I have…

I love RIF as well. It's so simple and straightforward but with all the features of the website. It seems be well down the list of Android app in popularity though, I don't know why.

People like overly fancy modern looking apps. RIF and other open source reddit apps like Diode (available on F-Droid) basically provide the same minimal and working experience old.reddit provides.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

cheezit wrote: post #136
ardy42 wrote: post #76

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> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?

The new interface is good for the pornography subreddits.

And that's really all that's going on at Reddit these days; let's be honest. It's a thin veneer over the world's largest porn portal.

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Post by jedberg »

umvi wrote: post #175
jedberg wrote: post #63

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I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…

old interface was just way more information dense. That's my main complaint with new UI. Even with "compact" mode on the new UI, it's not as dense as the old one.

I agree completely. We intentionally designed the old interface to be information dense. When we made it slightly less dense, there was such a strong pushback that we had to add an option to go back to the more dense mode.

But there are a lot of users who don't care. And maintaining two interfaces is double the work of maintaining one, because you have test everything twice. And it's actually geometric, not double, because you have to test every new option combination in both interfaces.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

boringg wrote: post #163
throwaway0a5e wrote: post #85

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That doesn't really solve it though. You have to continuously try and find the new subs for your niche because they all go to crap.

This is the internet of 2020s. It’s a lot of work to find good quality content. Everyone knows how to take advantage of everyone or every platform. Any new hot platform will be coopted once it gets traction. Recently made the conclusion so many other people realized is that google search is just searching through paid ads or paid seo. It just sucks frankly. DDG better but still painful.

There are no answers at Reddit, and even if there were, the interface would hide them under the fold of the post, and take several seconds to expose. If I stumble on some terms that have been SEO'd by them, and their posts are at the top of my search results, I add "-reddit -site:reddit.com" to my search, and carry on. I wish I could just block reddit from google results, like you could in the old days.

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Post by tootie »

abhiminator wrote: post #18
GEBBL wrote: post #7

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I use i.Reddit.com, much better

I agree that it's better than the new mobile web, but its design still feels super clunky and dated. I remember a certain version of mobile web in 2017/2018 that worked GREAT. But then reddit decided to mess it all up by forcing mobile web users to use their (bloated and ad-filled) app and making it hard to access certain communities and read more than 2 layers of child comments. I guess that's what relentless pursui…

As someone who has had a luxurious career based on adding full-bleed photography to the websites of companies with more money than sense, all I can say the look of i.reddit.com is just beautifully minimal. UX is about more than intuitive controls, it's about speed and comfort and I can use that site with so quickly and smoothly. The color palette doesn't even register in my head anymore. It's also a somewhat forgotten rule that designing for occasional is very different than for habitual use. Habitual users don't need training wheels, they need shortcuts.

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Post by heavyset_go »

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…

> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

There's an entire cottage industry dedicated to doing reputation management for brands on platforms like Reddit. I don't think Reddit cares that they aren't using their ad platform directly, because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their posts and what not.

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Post by bitcharmer »

cwkoss wrote: post #146
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…

I think the biggest existential risk to reddit is their mod structure. There is no effective mechanism for getting rid of bad mods, users just have to spin off into a new subreddit.

> users just have to spin off into a new subreddit.

Which then get taken over by SJW mods after some time any way.

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Post by airstrike »

abhiminator wrote: post #3

On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).

Agreed. Also just wanted to note I have a smirk on my face every day as I open firefox and go "news.", enter, ctrl+t, "old." enter

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Post by benhurmarcel »

marrone12 wrote: post #156
ardy42 wrote: post #76

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> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?

I think it looks better. Better fonts, better element spacing. It just does not perform very well and seems to have a lot of "state" issues or inconsistent design elements. Reading comments and browsing is slower than it used to be, but I prefer the new look to the old one.

The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. It makes reading through comments much faster.

The main drawback is that it's really too heavy for what it does.

I don't understand the complains about the new design being image-heavy, or in general so much different from the old one. Once you set it (once) in "classic view", it's basically the same.

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