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Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#21

Post by nojito »

ngokevin wrote: post #18
axaxs wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly wonder what goes on behind Reddit. It's been pretty terrible since the beginning. I don't mean to be insulting to anyone in particular, I know how projects go, and I love the site. But speedy or well done, it is not.

There's no question they've sabotaged their webapp in favor of the app where there's no adblock and they can send push notifications for profit. Been a user since 2009 and still use a ton for everything, but it's quickly grown more painful by the day.

I find this logic quite interesting.

Why should Reddit not make money?

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#22

Post by takeda »

Havoc wrote: post #16

Honestly I rarely even notice. It’s pretty slow & patchy on a good day

I think it's fault of the "new" (well hardly new anymore) UI. I use old.reddit.com with an AddOn to my browser to always redirect to it and the site is as responsive as HN.

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#23

Post by dunmalg »

nojito wrote: post #21
ngokevin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no question they've sabotaged their webapp in favor of the app where there's no adblock and they can send push notifications for profit. Been a user since 2009 and still use a ton for everything, but it's quickly grown more painful by the day.

I find this logic quite interesting. Why should Reddit not make money?

No one is saying they shouldn't make money. It is our right to gripe about it when they do so in an annoying or obnoxious manner. We might even abandon the platform if the advertising push becomes too obnoxious. If that happens and they fold, apparently they did not have a viable business model. There is no "should" about any of it.

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#24

Post by pathless »

Havoc wrote: post #16

Honestly I rarely even notice. It’s pretty slow & patchy on a good day

The redesign is terrible. It looks nicer, but ultimately it behaves terribly. It loses connection with reddit all the time, makes my PC fan speed up to a volume that not even games can achieve, and is downright just behaviorally bizarre. Videos stop and start randomly, or refuse to buffer. Images are too big and stick out of frames sometimes, things take 10+ seconds to load even if the rest of the page loaded just fine.

I switch the URL to old.reddit and poof! Performance problems are magically gone.

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#25

Post by jjice »

pathless wrote: post #24
Havoc wrote: post #16

Honestly I rarely even notice. It’s pretty slow & patchy on a good day

The redesign is terrible. It looks nicer, but ultimately it behaves terribly. It loses connection with reddit all the time, makes my PC fan speed up to a volume that not even games can achieve, and is downright just behaviorally bizarre. Videos stop and start randomly, or refuse to buffer. Images are too big and stick out of frames sometimes, things take 10+ seconds to load even if the rest of the page loaded just fi…

The performance is awful. If they just did a site wide CSS and HTML makeover, that would've been fine. But they somehow crammed enough JS in there to make my computer beg for mercy.

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#26

Post by thatguy0900 »

nojito wrote: post #21
ngokevin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no question they've sabotaged their webapp in favor of the app where there's no adblock and they can send push notifications for profit. Been a user since 2009 and still use a ton for everything, but it's quickly grown more painful by the day.

I find this logic quite interesting. Why should Reddit not make money?

Ideally they would make money by making a better product, not neuter their existing good product to force users to use the worse but more lucrative product

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#27

Post by Hammershaft »

pathless wrote: post #24
Havoc wrote: post #16

Honestly I rarely even notice. It’s pretty slow & patchy on a good day

The redesign is terrible. It looks nicer, but ultimately it behaves terribly. It loses connection with reddit all the time, makes my PC fan speed up to a volume that not even games can achieve, and is downright just behaviorally bizarre. Videos stop and start randomly, or refuse to buffer. Images are too big and stick out of frames sometimes, things take 10+ seconds to load even if the rest of the page loaded just fi…

It is atrocious. Reinforces every possible stereotype about web apps. One tab of the reddit redesign after scrolling will eat more memory and cpu then most AAA games on my rig.

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#28

Post by Hammershaft »

nojito wrote: post #21
ngokevin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no question they've sabotaged their webapp in favor of the app where there's no adblock and they can send push notifications for profit. Been a user since 2009 and still use a ton for everything, but it's quickly grown more painful by the day.

I find this logic quite interesting. Why should Reddit not make money?

Their method of making money has directly contributed to a nosedive in the quality of their products. I frankly consider this a kind of rarely documented market failure.

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#29

Post by Hammershaft »

jorl17 wrote: post #3
mdoms wrote: post #2

Seems like a lot of services are having trouble today. - Hacker News - Reddit - Azure - (edit) Github actions In the past couple of hours.

Someone must have tripped over a couple of wires back in China! EDIT: Clearly, I failed to make it obvious, but I meant this as a joke. I don't believe our traffic is "hubbed" or affected by China in any way whatsoever...

haha I laughed

Re: Reddit Degraded Performance

#30

Post by jimmyvalmer »

dunmalg wrote: post #23
nojito wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find this logic quite interesting. Why should Reddit not make money?

No one is saying they shouldn't make money. It is our right to gripe about it when they do so in an annoying or obnoxious manner. We might even abandon the platform if the advertising push becomes too obnoxious. If that happens and they fold, apparently they did not have a viable business model. There is no "should" about any of it.

> There is no "should" about any of it.

Of course there is. Objective functions can be utilitarian or deeply selfish, but "should" pushes them in someone's desired direction. Relativism is tautological and intentionally or not, condescending.

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