Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

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…

Text only posts were launched after subreddits. That has lead to some of the best parts of reddit.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by awakeasleep » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

somehnguy wrote: post #55

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.

The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

Reddit's video player more or less does not work

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:12 PM UTC

nowledge wrote: post #67

reddit doesn't buy squat, it's conde nast. same people that wrote fluff pieces on a 'new wall street wonder boy' named jeffrey epstein.

Conde Nast spun out reddit as a separate entity almost a decade ago.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by awakeasleep » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

mrits wrote: post #66

It's easy to make fun of UI changes but... reddit on mobile without using their app is near unusable. You can't see all the comments and both the top and bottom of the screen is telling you to use their app.

I use it on the desktop too, but mobile is where old.reddit.com is actually a _requirement_ for me

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by lmpostor » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

awakeasleep wrote: post #72

somehnguy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

Reddit's video player more or less does not work

It works as a content rip-off machines, which is exactly what it was designed for...

but yeah in a vacuum it blows

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by SkyPuncher » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:26 PM UTC

somehnguy wrote: post #57

erichurkman wrote: post #52

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> However, teddit is limited to browsing. Can't reply / comment on it Maybe a feature, not a limitation.

It's definitely a limitation. I subscribe and participate in a number of smaller/niche/hobby related subreddits. Not being able to participate makes it completely useless for people like me. There are great places and discussions on reddit once you filter out all the popular subs.

I agree. I visit Reddit and HN to engage with other people.

If I just wanted to read, I'd directly subscribe to a select set of blogs.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by erikpukinskis » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

awakeasleep wrote: post #72

somehnguy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

Reddit's video player more or less does not work

Every now and then a play a video on Reddit to see if it works yet, and the answer is always no.

Sometimes the first second or two plays though.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by bonestamp2 » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

somehnguy wrote: post #55

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.

The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

> The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

That's not entirely true... the redesign has some moderation and content submission improvements. But, if you don't mod or submit content then you might not notice those improvements.

That said, like digg, the redesign is also missing a lot of features that old.reddit has. So, if they don't want to digg v4 themselves (which is what made Reddit popular to begin with) then they have to at least keep old.reddit around until there is feature parity.

They will definitely shed a lot of users when they drop old.reddit but anyone who uses particular subreddits for their hobbies and interests may bite the bullet and get used to the redesign if they like the community enough. Hopefully Reddit Enhancement Suite makes a lot of improvements when that happens because RES makes reddit so much better.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by SkyPuncher » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:36 PM UTC

randylahey wrote: post #24

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...

Search has always been absolutely terrible... it's nearly 2021... how can a billion dollar outfit still have terrible search?

Because they don't care if you can search. In fact, they probably don't want search too be tooo good.

* Good search means you could find stuff easily

* Bad search means you're more likely to post again and continue the re-engagement circle.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

pletsch wrote: post #33

notyourwork wrote: post #28

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> 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!'

On mobile they already limit how many comments you can view and force you to sign in otherwise.