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Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by dntrkv »

isoprophlex wrote: post #8

Reddit has always been shit since the redesign: broken scroll, broken video hosting, dark patterns up the wazoo. I wonder if/how soon we'll see a degradation to similar poor usability in dubsmash, or if the people working there can manage to hang on to their product as it is...

The amount of dark patterns Reddit has introduced in their web app is ridiculous.

At first, they would prompt you to install the web app every other page load, and now they don't even let you expand comment threads.

Why spend so much time and resources on rebuilding your web app if you're gonna cripple the experience so much? The funny thing is it makes conversion rates on the web app even worse, so they have even more reason to push you onto the native version.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by breitling »

saurik wrote: post #26
sorenjan wrote: post #22

Reddit is searching for something, but I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits. They've added and removed community chat rooms [0], they still have some other kind of chat that I don't know if anyone uses, when I happen to visit new Reddit there's some kind of streaming broadcasts that I don't see anyone liking. And of course the redesign, but I suspect that…

I mean, a sizable enough number of us continue to use old.reddit.com that it seems like they realize they can't force us onto the new design and are relegated to maintaining the old one for essentially forever... which to me says something incredible about just how badly their design failed.

Recently learned about Teddit.net on HN. That's now my go-to... Better than old.Reddit.com

However, teddit is limited to browsing. Can't reply / comment on it

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by pletsch »

notyourwork wrote: post #28
saurik wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, a sizable enough number of us continue to use old.reddit.com that it seems like they realize they can't force us onto the new design and are relegated to maintaining the old one for essentially forever... which to me says something incredible about just how badly their design failed.

> forever I suspect a Reddit PM is watching a usage of old.reddit.com metric and waiting for it to hit a certain threshold before canning it. Perhaps the migration has taken longer than they planned but I have no doubt in time old.reddit.com will be retired.

I expect features to just stop working on old.reddit as we get further away from the redesign, whether it be updates internally or full new features. This will continue until it gets unusable and then they'll kill it because 'nobody uses it!'

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by dageshi »

isoprophlex wrote: post #8

Reddit has always been shit since the redesign: broken scroll, broken video hosting, dark patterns up the wazoo. I wonder if/how soon we'll see a degradation to similar poor usability in dubsmash, or if the people working there can manage to hang on to their product as it is...

The general public are reddits audience now not "early internet adopters". I know from running a geographically based small niche subreddit that users and post volume have gone up dramatically in the past 1-2 years.

The people who hate new reddit are a tiny minority I'm afraid to say, the majority of users on the site probably never even saw the old reddit design.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by JxLS-cpgbe0 »

notyourwork wrote: post #28
saurik wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, a sizable enough number of us continue to use old.reddit.com that it seems like they realize they can't force us onto the new design and are relegated to maintaining the old one for essentially forever... which to me says something incredible about just how badly their design failed.

> forever I suspect a Reddit PM is watching a usage of old.reddit.com metric and waiting for it to hit a certain threshold before canning it. Perhaps the migration has taken longer than they planned but I have no doubt in time old.reddit.com will be retired.

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Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

#36

Post by tootie »

harryf wrote: post #6

Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1ag/why_ar... ... what I wonder if whether that's a lack of engineering effort by reddit or more missing peering agreements or both?

It's mind-boggling. I can easily view videos on desktop or mobile hosted on youtube, streamable, clippuser, imgur, gfycat. All load and play really quickly even on an old, crummy phone. Meanwhile v.reddit.com is slow as hell, can't scrub, controls don't work in full-screen. And it's been that way for years with no improvement.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by bamboleo »

harryf wrote: post #6

Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1ag/why_ar... ... what I wonder if whether that's a lack of engineering effort by reddit or more missing peering agreements or both?

I don’t know why v.reddit doesn’t work, all I know is that if I get the hls address and stick it in a video tag, it’s pretty reliable.

This likely means that they’re doing something so badly that they break something that already works. Good job.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by sorenjan »

runawaybottle wrote: post #27
sorenjan wrote: post #22

Reddit is searching for something, but I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits. They've added and removed community chat rooms [0], they still have some other kind of chat that I don't know if anyone uses, when I happen to visit new Reddit there's some kind of streaming broadcasts that I don't see anyone liking. And of course the redesign, but I suspect that…

I don’t think Reddit needs any major feature other than search. When I search google, I basically append ‘Reddit’ to my query. It’s where all the real answers are, there are no more websites (who would have thought, the real rival to google is Reddit).

I don't either, but that's not how VC backed companies work. It's not good enough to stay usable for the current users, you need growth, and preferably as much as possible. I don't know what kind of service they're aiming for, but it's basically a meme feed now, with some political echo chambers thrown in.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by lapetitejort »

pletsch wrote: post #33
notyourwork wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> forever I suspect a Reddit PM is watching a usage of old.reddit.com metric and waiting for it to hit a certain threshold before canning it. Perhaps the migration has taken longer than they planned but I have no doubt in time old.reddit.com will be retired.

I expect features to just stop working on old.reddit as we get further away from the redesign, whether it be updates internally or full new features. This will continue until it gets unusable and then they'll kill it because 'nobody uses it!'

I noticed polls don't work on old reddit. Then don't even show in the feed. If you visit the poll directly it expands as some sort of embedded new reddit.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by AlwaysRock »

isoprophlex wrote: post #8

Reddit has always been shit since the redesign: broken scroll, broken video hosting, dark patterns up the wazoo. I wonder if/how soon we'll see a degradation to similar poor usability in dubsmash, or if the people working there can manage to hang on to their product as it is...

Shit for you. Shit for me. Great for the Reddit bottom line and new user numbers.
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