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Re: This Community is Available in the App

#11

Post by tapland »

helmholtz wrote: post #9

The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes. As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new…

Have you tried googling something like: site:reddit.com ?

The results look relevant but often refer to other posts you don’t see if going to the link.

and a site:reddit.com with timestamp (last month etc) is useless now since it apparently uses timestamps off other posts that were visible in the same community once. Driving me avsolutely insane that this one site doesnt give accurate results on google.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#12

Post by rukshn »

superasn wrote: post #10

Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? They were pretty cool people and I can't believe they would approve of all this nonsense. Maybe the old team has been completely replaced by evil pointy haired people who don't care about anything except kpis?

I guess in any company or startup there comes a place where you have to focus on growth, and this change comes at a cost,

When Facebook introduced the feed, and many features that were bad in privacy but good in growth they all paid out to be good decisions on the long run because they were data driven.

I feel Reddit has come to that point and my assumption is these measures are also data driven

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#13

Post by simongray »

Another dark pattern they introduced recently are differing flavours of markdown in new and old reddit, resulting in lots of visually broken code snippets for users of old reddit. It might be unintentional (I doubt it), but there's no question that adding new formatting capabilities to reddit, but leaving in the raw source code for users of old reddit is quite a downgrade. I tried switching temporarily to the new design and I still hate it.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#14

Post by chaosharmonic »

tapland wrote: post #11
helmholtz wrote: post #9

The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes. As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new…

Have you tried googling something like: site:reddit.com ? The results look relevant but often refer to other posts you don’t see if going to the link. and a site:reddit.com with timestamp (last month etc) is useless now since it apparently uses timestamps off other posts that were visible in the same community once. Driving me avsolutely insane that this one site doesnt give accurate results on google.

There's also Pushshift[0], a Reddit analytics project that also offers a custom search engine[1]. It's clutched out significantly better results than either Google with site: tags or Reddit's native search, the few times I've had reason to try it.

[0] https://pushshift.io/

[1] https://redditsearch.io/

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#15

Post by reidrac »

ffpip wrote: post #4
rukshn wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was able to see small subreddits without the app. I was thinking whether they are blocking only the bigger subreddits.

They block based on the country you are from. If I use a UK/US VPN, I don't get the download app banner. But when I browse without a VPN (Indian IP), I get so many popups asking me to download the app.

I'm in the UK and I get the reddit app banners all the time browsing with my phone; I can ignore them and still browse the site.

I don't comment often, so I moved to use https://teddit.net/ -- probably a temp solution, but as long as it is available, I'll use it.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#16

Post by dimator »

helmholtz wrote: post #9

The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes. As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new…

There's also teddit.net, a reddit mirror that uses the reddit API to present a light weight skin. It is a bit too slow for me, and the features are pretty lacking. I don't think a spartan "no javascript" take is what's needed to cure the garbage that is full reddit web experience. Still it's a good first attempt.

I'm hoping someone will come along and create a lean, mean, yet functional semantic reddit web frontend.... That is, before reddit kills their API.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#17

Post by input_sh »

superasn wrote: post #10

Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? They were pretty cool people and I can't believe they would approve of all this nonsense. Maybe the old team has been completely replaced by evil pointy haired people who don't care about anything except kpis?

> Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now?

It was founded by three people:

Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide over bullshit charges.

Alexis Ohanian, who resigned from reddit's board in June this year.

Steve Huffman (AKA spez) who's still around as a CEO.

But nowadays the latter two try to erase Swartz's legacy (https://i.imgur.com/a3dARxi.jpg).

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#18

Post by shash7 »

ffpip wrote: post #2

I can't even view comments without downloading the app. All NSFW posts are behind a app wall ("use anonymous mode in app to view porn"). They know it will get people to download the app. All subreddits are behind an app wall. All live streams too, but since I don't care about them, I ain't complaining.

If you're on ios, use apollo app. Its not reddit's app so privacy concerns are nill but they have the best ui hands-down to browse reddit.

Also, NSFW posts work fine on apollo ;)

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#19

Post by staticelf »

Reddit used to be about free speech and internet activism, now it's about censorship and pushing a political agenda.

It's really amazing how you can go from awesome to super shitty. Reddit has implemented an automated thought police which means you will be banned if you upvote what they think is bad things.

It's really disgusting. Personally I went from loving reddit to hating it. If you like China and censorship, reddit is a great place for you.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#20

Post by staticelf »

input_sh wrote: post #17
superasn wrote: post #10

Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? They were pretty cool people and I can't believe they would approve of all this nonsense. Maybe the old team has been completely replaced by evil pointy haired people who don't care about anything except kpis?

> Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? It was founded by three people: Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide over bullshit charges. Alexis Ohanian, who resigned from reddit's board in June this year. Steve Huffman (AKA spez) who's still around as a CEO. But nowadays the latter two try to erase Swartz's legacy ( https://i.imgur.com/a3dARxi.jpg ).

Wow, that's really disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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