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I'm still using .compact for mobile browsing
What is .compact?
There's also https://i.reddit.com which is a similar but slightly different experience.
EDIT: per commenters below correcting my mistake, this is "the same" experience AFAWCT
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Market volatility doesn't seem to be extraordinarily high right now: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/VIX:INDEXCBOE?safe=off&...
Market predictability is at an extreme low. Rug pulls are happening on a regular basis, and spy is regularly being propped up by a few random, overvalued stocks.
Anyway, the person I was responding to said volatility and that is the metric I cited.
Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…
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it’s 10-15%. if you moderate a sub you see where people come from
That's a lot lower than I expected. I can't stand the new UI. I guess most traffic is from people without accounts though.
I first realised this back in the 1990s when shitty default monitor resolution and refresh rate would literally inflict pain (headaches and eyestrain).
MS Windows 95 / 98 shipped with a default of 800x600@60Hz. This was on CRTs, many viewed under office flourescent lighting, which gave rise to a bloody awful flicker that people mistakenly attemtped to correct with "glare screens" and other useless crud.
The solution was simply to crank up refresh rate slightly. Bumping up resolution also gave more useful area and clearer, easier-to-read fonts. (This was also before Cleartype / sub-pixel rendering.)
And yet something like 90-95% of systems monitored ... somehow (possibly an early Web tool) revealed 800x600, and I believe 60 Hz refresh. This on systems which could easily be bumped to 1024x768 or better.
And this was literally a click away off the desktop.
Lesson Younger Me learned: users won't change any default.
So:
- Pick really good defaults. Autoconfigure for best experience if possible.
- If you want to cram things down users' throats, you can just change the default experience, especially on a SAAS app.
Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…
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What is .compact?
https://www.reddit.com/.compact There's also https://i.reddit.com which is a similar but slightly different experience. EDIT: per commenters below correcting my mistake, this is "the same" experience AFAWCT
Often .compact and i.reddit.com will interchange in my experience. (I forget which switches to which.)
Will they be banning porn like tumblr? I know they removed it from "All" and then I believe they hid it in other ways. Just wondering when the Digg 4.0 / Tumblr will happen to Reddit. So far it's been a slow burn but I'm waiting for the great purge to bring down the house. It always seems to happen around an IPO.
The day they shut down old.reddit.com will be the day the site dies for me. I feel like it's inevitable that it will happen at some point.