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Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by helmholtz » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

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.

Indeed. I've found that what works best for me is to use an account with my subreddits subscribed to. This way, I don't get tempted to go to the home page.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by helmholtz » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

iCarrot wrote: post #48

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…

My experience says hobby subs on Reddit are amazing though, and plenty of 30 or older generation. Used to visit leathercraft and bicycling sub daily, until real life forced me to forgo both hobbies.

Agreed. The more niche/focussed the hobby, the happier the subreddit atmosphere. I love /r/bikecommuting too, and also /r/ergomechkeyboards, /r/formula1, /r/financialindependence etc.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by mariusor » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

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…

If you're interested for an alternative, keep an eye on my project (in my profile). I've been working on a link aggregator alternative for small to medium sized communities that can govern themselves and intercommunicate among themselves by using the ActivityPub protocol. The grand plan would involve convincing some of the cooler reddit communities to take off on their own using my (or a similar) platform.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by mariusor » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:26 PM UTC

rapnie wrote: post #31

dimator wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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..…

There's also: https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit And full-blown, federated Reddit alternative: https://join.lemmy.ml/

There's more than one federated reddit alternative. :P

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by makecheck » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 4:19 AM UTC

I’ve just become so...tired of the anti-consumer mechanisms.

The pop-ups. The floating “dickbars” (as John Gruber calls them). The delayed prompts. The login blockers after trying to do like 2 simple things. At some point I just think “do you want me to use this or not?!?” and just leave.

I encourage everyone to do the same, just leave these sites that disrespect you. Start adding up all the time you saved, when you discover half the “articles” or comments weren’t really worth your time to begin with.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by djohnston » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:04 PM UTC

The UX changes definitely made it easy to cut reddit out of my life, not that I was using it for much anymore.

What I would love to understand is who is calling the shots here and what metrics are they using to justify these measures. Are people who previously lurked actually complying and installing the native app? Are reddit's internal metrics properly tracking this loss of engagement, or have they gamed the metrics to make it seem like there is 0 downside to these walls?