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Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by syntheticnature »

542458 wrote: post #33
petepete wrote: post #22

The only way I can stomach using Reddit is via Reddit Sync. I firmly believe that soon Reddit will prevent third party clients from using their API. Perhaps there'll be a subscription service where paid accounts can still use it with their client of choice, or maybe they'll just kill the ecosystem in an attempt to get people on the official app. Either way, that's me done with it. The hostility makes it somewhere I'm…

Edit: apparently I’m misreading the traffic page and third party apps are not included. So disregard this paragraph. I really doubt they’ll kill API access. From the stats on my (medium sized) sub a full third of uniques (desktop and mobile combined) are from unofficial clients. And that’s not to mention the number of near-essential bots used by many subs for community management. Now, what they are doing is not putt…

My understanding is that third-party apps aren't shown at all, per https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6pxyvy/traffic_pag... ; "Reddit apps" only lists the official ones in subreddit stats.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by sneak »

unangst wrote: post #56
wongarsu wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old.reddit.com is not mobile optimized at all, but still infinitely better than reddit.com. Alternatively, get one of the non-official apps (on Android I use rif).

Try https://reddit.com/.compact

Even that has an upsell dickbar stuck to the top. It's a fractal of user hostility.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by BusTrainBus »

Reddit is an absolutely grotesque website, both for these UI issues and the toxic hate it engenders on all the subreddits. It’s magnitudes worse than any other social network. I have a genuine question: do people openly say they work for this company or is it workplace where people have to hide that they are part of it?

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by marcinzm »

rognjen wrote: post #66
marcinzm wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that basically Medium?

(Can't reply to the other comment) > Reddit has 10x the traffic because it's free. Reddit acquired more traffic because it's free, true. But now, they aren't looking to acquire more traffic. They're looking for more revenue. One way to get that revenue is to allow already existing content creators to charge for a part of the content. I think that would not only encourage better content but would bring in other users…

Reddit's model is based on unpaid moderators managing most of the site. There's already controversy around a few moderators controlling all the large communities, karma farming and behind the scenes deals. Introducing money into the mix will just result in even more abuse as moderators try to take their own cut. It's a very messy eco-system that money will just make even messier.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by bogwog »

jostmey wrote: post #70
SkyMarshal wrote: post #34

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How does it keep forgetting? I just change that in settings and it’s never forgotten or reverted for me.

It always forgets for me even when I’m logged in

By 'compact', do you mean i.reddit.com, or old.reddit.com?

I've found that the former does sometimes redirect me to the garbage mobile version when I click on a thread (even while logged in), but the latter persists as long as the setting is enabled in my account.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by Firebrand »

jcfrei wrote: post #32

Here's how reddit's business model probably works: you have power users which create or submit the content and write the witty comments and then you have the lurkers which just browse. what reddit is trying to monetize is the interaction with the latter user group: comments provide little space to promote ads, so most of them are hidden by default. instead they promote lots of posts with images interspersed with ads.…

Reddit bought Dubsmash last year, too. I imagine the app will eventually operate almost similar to TikTok: funny picture, advertisement, cat video, person live-streaming. Whether or not they can attract more of these power users to use the official app to upload short videos and livestream remains to be seen. I don’t think they’re able to on third-party apps. I’m not able to on Apollo, at least.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by rognjen »

marcinzm wrote: post #30
rognjen wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one of the things I suggest. Copy Patreon. They've shown that users are willing to pay for "user generated content"

Isn't that basically Medium?

> moderators

I suggest to compensate creators not moderators.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by bogwog »

tux3 wrote: post #24
tored wrote: post #16

Hostile design either makes the user login (a user reddit can monetize) or makes the user to close the site (a user reddit can't monetize, thus no need to waste resources), both scenarios is a win for reddit.

Third scenario: People keep using it in anger until something better shows up, and by that time there will be enough unhappy people to spark a growing community in the New Place.

If that were true, it would've happened long ago. Say what you will about reddit's questionably/shitty policies, but they do a pretty decent job of keeping the extremists/racists/crazies/etc contained.

Nearly every attempt at a reddit alternative over the years has been flooded by those types of people. Even if you ignore the fact that advertisers will avoid that community like a plague, the average person will want to avoid it too.

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