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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by zaptrem »

bryans wrote: post #92

Reddit is operating on the shakiest house of cards, and their investors are being swindled, along with their advertisers. For one of many examples, they're grossly inflating viewership numbers on Reddit Live by injecting the top broadcast into the front page of 25,000 users every ~30 seconds -- largely against their will[1] or without knowledge[2] -- and then selling those as "video views" to record labels, Adobe, Le…

People actually use PAN? As a heavy Reddit user (and mod in large community) this is news to me.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Spivak »

romwell wrote: post #98
paxys wrote: post #47

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…

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

And if you’re on iOS there’s an app called reddo which is basically old Reddit redirect.

Re: Reddit files to go public

#113

Post by toper-centage »

romwell wrote: post #98
paxys wrote: post #47

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…

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

And at least for now, there's a multitude of third party parties with all the features one could care about, minus all the bloat. But who knows how long the api will last?

Re: Reddit files to go public

#114

Post by john_moscow »

bryans wrote: post #92

Reddit is operating on the shakiest house of cards, and their investors are being swindled, along with their advertisers. For one of many examples, they're grossly inflating viewership numbers on Reddit Live by injecting the top broadcast into the front page of 25,000 users every ~30 seconds -- largely against their will[1] or without knowledge[2] -- and then selling those as "video views" to record labels, Adobe, Le…

You have just described the state of a massive chunk of the U.S. economy after 2008 when printing money to paper things over has become a norm.

Re: Reddit files to go public

#115

Post by 0x0nyandesu »

kingcharles wrote: post #95
greenknight wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the thing, i hate their new ui... and if ever they get rid of their 'old' ui I would leave reddit. Their "New UI" was brought in in 2018, and to me was like a digg moment. To me, Hackernews is what Reddit was 10 years ago, just without subreddits. Clean top quality content.

It's weird. I was a huge user of Reddit from its launch to 2013 when I fell off the Internet. I didn't use it again until 2021, so I had a big jump in UI. As a UX designer I really don't get all the hate about the current interface. It works great for me.

It's just a small amount of actual content in the space compared to the old interface (still up at old.reddit.com)

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Spivak »

jolux wrote: post #110
romwell wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what you're talking about. Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable... ...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default. The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls…

> The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls that walk into it. This would be reasonable if there weren’t subreddits that are totally broken on old.reddit.com and proclaim loudly in their sidebar that they no longer support it.

You use custom CSS?!? Oh god it’s so awful. Turning that off is half the reason to be logged in.

Re: Reddit files to go public

#118

Post by belval »

systemvoltage wrote: post #44
belval wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mandatory guideline quote: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. The actual quote has a bunch of links that I worth looking at. People were echo'ing your comment 7 years ago.

I’ve been here for a while. Maybe we can break the rule in a thread about Reddit going for an IPO? :-) Also, I am not saying HN is turning into Reddit. We are just degrading.

FWIW, I didn't mean to imply that you shouldn't comment on it. Just that in HN's "lore" saying that it's turning into reddit is a common theme.

As to your comment itself, I don't think HN is degrading that fast? The low-quality "meme" responses usually get downvoted and while polarization is alive and well, most of it leads to interesting arguments so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

I've only been here for 2-3 years though so maybe it was different before.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by romwell »

kingcharles wrote: post #95
greenknight wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the thing, i hate their new ui... and if ever they get rid of their 'old' ui I would leave reddit. Their "New UI" was brought in in 2018, and to me was like a digg moment. To me, Hackernews is what Reddit was 10 years ago, just without subreddits. Clean top quality content.

It's weird. I was a huge user of Reddit from its launch to 2013 when I fell off the Internet. I didn't use it again until 2021, so I had a big jump in UI. As a UX designer I really don't get all the hate about the current interface. It works great for me.

It's literally 10x slower on all devices that I have, shows less content (particularly, long comment threads), and 100 other reasons they I'd sure hope you understood as a UX designer.

It's 2021, I don't want to see a "Loading..." icon like I'm on dial-up in the 90s.

Compare with https://old.reddit.com — open them side by side, refresh, click around.

We can have a serious discussion about what sucks in the "new" UI, but I really hope it's obvious.

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