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Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

#21
For me, the single most important feature is the speed with which the page loads. I have given up on a handful of Reddit readers in particular because i.reddit.com is very aggressive in only loading a small amount of data (i.e. less comments) up front.

It would be great if I could easily toggle between two profiles of data loading, low bandwidth mode and a high bandwidth mode.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

#23

"The most important information", but you don't show points? Sorry, but this is unusable.

I just thought that if you weren't able to vote on posts and comments in the first place (being read-only), maybe the points were not relevant to the 'just reading' experience.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

#26
post #25

What's the difference between your channel vs. concatenating multiple subreddits in the URL like /r/programming+science? Because the latter supports more than 3 subreddits at once.

No difference at all. I actually am concatenating the subreddits for the URL. It's on my to-do list to allow any number of subreddit per channel. I just haven't figured out an elegant way to do it on the mobile, yet.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

#27
post #4

Looks good. I'm always looking for better ways to read reddit. I don't like their UI. I've been experimenting with the best way to read reddit. My first idea was a specialized browser that has 5 tabs open. When you close one tab, another automatically opens with the next unread story from the current subreddit. That way, as fast as you could smack Ctrl+W, you'd get the the next unread story, already loaded. It worked…

Have you checked out www.scrolldit.com?

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

#29
post #4

Looks good. I'm always looking for better ways to read reddit. I don't like their UI. I've been experimenting with the best way to read reddit. My first idea was a specialized browser that has 5 tabs open. When you close one tab, another automatically opens with the next unread story from the current subreddit. That way, as fast as you could smack Ctrl+W, you'd get the the next unread story, already loaded. It worked…

The biggest problems with reddit aren't so much how to read it, but rather what can be read there. Most of the major subreddits are no longer worth following, unless you're interested in hipsterism or curious about the meme-of-the-hour. The smaller subreddits generally have limited traffic, resulting in very slow discussion. Email mailing lists are far superior for discussions with this size of a community. Censorshi…

>Software won't fix these major problems. They're issues with the community itself.

Each sub is its own community. If you're having troubles like you mentioned above, you haven't found the right ones yet.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

#30

"The most important information", but you don't show points? Sorry, but this is unusable.

I just thought that if you weren't able to vote on posts and comments in the first place (being read-only), maybe the points were not relevant to the 'just reading' experience.

Not relevant in a sense, though what would be at the top of the subreddits would in fact be the articles with the most points. While you couldn't vote yourself, you would essentially be reading top voted content.
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