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Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by capableweb »

CoolGuySteve wrote: post #40
marginalia_nu wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kinda embarrassing. It's been I don't know how many years, and pasting text in the comment field still breaks the new reddit UI. I don't know how to explain it. Does everyone on the new reddit dev team use old.reddit.com so they don't notice this extremely obvious bug?

Yeah, I find so many bugs in reddit that it's surprising to me that a more streamlined replacement hasn't arisen. But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0 is about on par with how my reddit experience has been for years and yet reddit is still massively popular. Shrug. I guess it's hard to believe that sometimes market conditions can overcome bad engineering and then you add all the…

> But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0

What visible changes have been done since Elon took over Twitter + are buggy changes? I hardly notice anything different to be honest. There is a view counter and more people have the blue checkmark, otherwise things mostly seems to be the same. The ads panel (for publishing ads) is as broken as it has always been, so seems it has neither improved nor declined.

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by cainxinth »

bambax wrote: post #66
flanbiscuit wrote: post #51

IMO, Reddit is still usable but only via https://old.reddit.com . I still use Reddit daily, but I can't stand the horrific new design. I also highly curate my subscribed subreddits and use multireddits to combine subject matters. On Android I use Reddit Sync[1] (which has an ad-free pro version I paid a one-time $5 fee for). I worry about the day they discontinue old.reddit.com, or decide to cripple third-party apps…

I too only use Reddit via old.reddit.com; if it was ever discontinued I would stop using it... but I don't think I would miss it much.

The funny thing is old.reddit is reddit. It’s the actual content I want to see. The new design is just a layer of cruft on top that I don’t want.

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by eschulz »

amelius wrote: post #34

It is kind of ironic that so many professionals come to HN for a breath of fresh air, after which they continue building the UX they were escaping from in the first place.

It is, although I guess that's common in the modern world where mass value is created in an assembly line workplace

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by coldpie »

Jerrrry wrote: post #36

My only (primary, continuous, and ignored) complaint is that OP's text post's contrast matches the contrast of less-useful comments, making every Self-HN post seem subconsciously and automatically downvoted. It was "tradition,"? No, it's archaic and ironic for a site with so many A11y/accessibility advocates.

I emailed them once asking to change that and kind of got a shrug in response. Maybe more emails will convince them?

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by tiotempestade »

kibwen wrote: post #15

As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page. That said, it's relatively unobtrusive. And of course, the existence of HN is a large part of the marketing for YCombinator itself. Personally, I'll commend dang for doing a high-effort job at moderation, and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham t…

> As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page.

The way all ads should be? :)

Succinct, relevant and unobtrusive

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by kzrdude »

amelius wrote: post #64
kzrdude wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing from what I see in incognito mode and logged-in. One reason I have a caveat in there, is that there is a button called hide, so you don't have to see particular stories.

I was referring to the last sentence. How do you know this is a good foundation for a good forum?

I don't know, it's an opinion.

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #68
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m reading this on a phone, right now, and it’s perfectly usable.

I think parent meant that mobile phone creation should be discouraged. Mobile phone consumption is no issue.

Fair 'nuff, but creating any kind of text content is a big fat pain, on most mobile devices. I'm not sure how much site design can help. This site is about as good as you'll get, there.
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