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Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by bill_from_tampa »

mapledipdonut wrote: post #100

Anyone else have the immediate reaction/thought "oh God, IT has finally caught on and blocked reddit because of me"?

I'm at home, and I thought my ISP had decided reddit was unhealthy for me. But when I found I could ping reddit and still access it from the reddit app on my tablet computer I decided it was some mystery reddit error.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by Zren »

hffftz wrote: post #159
Spoom wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i.reddit.com actually works quite well on mobile, but I think this has even more risk of being shut down at a moment's notice so try not to mention it too much.

there's also ns.reddit.com that appears to be the same as old.reddit.com

That's basically an invalid locale prefix. Since ns is an invalid locale code or has no translations, it uses the default english. Reddit also used np.reddit.com which stood for non-participation. Basically there was subreddit CSS that disabled the voting buttons and comment dialog.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by danjac »

mkl95 wrote: post #137

I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.

I often wonder about the dumpster fire that is the web version of Reddit. Normally I assume incompetence over malice, but - they had a perfectly decent working link aggregator site over a decade ago, and more than sufficent resources and budget to maintain that site and make small improvements to the UX and design over time. So the only conclusion is that this is a planned, prolonged and deliberate act of self-sabotage and vandalism.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by UnseenTraveller »

gigglesupstairs wrote: post #124
alex4e wrote: post #96

Same for me (Ukraine) on both Firefox on Windows and Android. Firefox Focus on Android works fine, though. As well as Chrome, Edge, etc.

It’s happening in India too, if it’s any consolation

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Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by taauji »

danjac wrote: post #175
mkl95 wrote: post #137

I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.

I often wonder about the dumpster fire that is the web version of Reddit. Normally I assume incompetence over malice, but - they had a perfectly decent working link aggregator site over a decade ago, and more than sufficent resources and budget to maintain that site and make small improvements to the UX and design over time. So the only conclusion is that this is a planned, prolonged and deliberate act of self-sabota…

I think they are trying to facebookifying (for the lack of better word) their interface. The trade off here is that user engagement lost due to bulky js is covered by the increase in user engagement due to flashy web features. user engagement is corporate double speak for user addiction.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by waffle_maniac »

jdlshore wrote: post #153
waffle_maniac wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems a bit of a dramatic take. I think Firefox has a few engineers on staff.

I think GP's point was Reddit breaking Chrome would cause a big uproar and result in the issue being fixed quickly, not that Chrome has more engineers.

Seems like it was fixed pretty quickly?

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by krferriter »

danjac wrote: post #175
mkl95 wrote: post #137

I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.

I often wonder about the dumpster fire that is the web version of Reddit. Normally I assume incompetence over malice, but - they had a perfectly decent working link aggregator site over a decade ago, and more than sufficent resources and budget to maintain that site and make small improvements to the UX and design over time. So the only conclusion is that this is a planned, prolonged and deliberate act of self-sabota…

The mobile app is terrible too. Even many of the 3rd party apps are not very good, especially on iOS. There are some good ones for Android like Boost and Relay, which I wish I could get on iOS.

It is an embarrassingly bad mobile app and web UI for one of the most popular sites in the world that really grew up natively on the modern web.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by pedrogpimenta »

darkteflon wrote: post #165
pedrogpimenta wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. It sucks so much I built my own :)

Could you share a link?

Yes but it's not complete in any way. You can't login, you can't comment, post or save your subreddits.

You can only see subreddits and comments.

But it is my daily driver.

It's at https://reddit.pimenta.co

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