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Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#131

Post by taneq »

morley wrote: post #27
ihuman wrote: post #10

With the purchase of AlienBlue over a year ago, I had high expectations for an official Reddit app. Seeing how hyped Jase (the developer behind AlienBlue) was about this app, I was expecting a less buggy version of AB with more features. Instead, what we got was a reddit app with less features. Here are my main issues with it: 1. No moderator support. With AlienBlue, we could read all of the Mod Mail, and remove post…

This new app got released minutes ago. It's not going to be perfect out of the gate. Give it some time.

It used to be that we developed, tested and polished software before releasing it. Does anyone else miss those days?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#132

Post by maknz »

alexis wrote: post #6
zamalek wrote: post #4

> This item isn't available in your country. It's an app for Reddit. Go figure. I'll be sticking with Sync (Android), which doesn't have this bewildering region restriction, has tons of features and faithfully follows Material.

We're now available in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Launching apps in other countries requires a little bit more diligence than just making a website available globally. I'm sorry it's not available in your country -- we're planning on getting it out everywhere.

Australia, but not New Zealand? C'mon.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#133

Post by dang »

ilyanep wrote: post #108
dang wrote: post #61

Reddit is penalized on HN (sorry for the shock), but this is obviously real news, so we've taken off the penalty and restored a few hours of clock time to this post.

Interesting! Is that a hard-coded penalty or is there some sort of calculated weighted penalty per-domain based on some criteria? If the former, is it just due to mod experience of poor-quality/just link submissions?

Not sure what you mean by hard-coded penalty but there are two classes of sites (called lightweight and midweight) whose submissions get penalized by default because of too many lightweight stories in the past. Not necessarily bad content, just content that doesn't fit the HN guidelines. Reddit's great of course—it's just that sometimes (well, usually maybe) HN isn't the best vessel for its greatness.

Most major media websites are in one of these categories. Moderators take the penalties off when we see a solid submission, and there are other ways that the software interprets community input to mean that an article might be better than usual and lifts the penalty.

We were nervous about making heavier use of this technique, but there were so many complaints about fluff articles making the front page that we had to do something, and banning major sites that sometimes produce excellent-for-HN articles wasn't an option. By now the current approach has been in place for a couple of years and it has worked out pretty well. Those complaints will never go away but they're at a more manageable level.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#134

Post by Gigablah »

taneq wrote: post #131
morley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This new app got released minutes ago. It's not going to be perfect out of the gate. Give it some time.

It used to be that we developed, tested and polished software before releasing it . Does anyone else miss those days?

"Those days" never really existed. Software has always been buggy.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#135

Post by taneq »

Gigablah wrote: post #134
taneq wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It used to be that we developed, tested and polished software before releasing it . Does anyone else miss those days?

"Those days" never really existed. Software has always been buggy.

Yes, there have always been (and always will be) software bugs, but it was at least intended to be used as shipped. We didn't release software with the stated intention of "ship it now, we'll patch bugs and finish features later."

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#136

Post by ilyanep »

dang wrote: post #133
ilyanep wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! Is that a hard-coded penalty or is there some sort of calculated weighted penalty per-domain based on some criteria? If the former, is it just due to mod experience of poor-quality/just link submissions?

Not sure what you mean by hard-coded penalty but there are two classes of sites (called lightweight and midweight) whose submissions get penalized by default because of too many lightweight stories in the past. Not necessarily bad content, just content that doesn't fit the HN guidelines. Reddit's great of course—it's just that sometimes (well, usually maybe) HN isn't the best vessel for its greatness. Most major medi…

Thanks for the response! What I meant by "hard-coded" penalty, is there is a list of domains somewhere and "reddit.com" is on it. I was wondering if that was the case, or if these domains were discovered automatically somehow. Based on your description, it sounds like it's the former and then occasionally the penalty is negated automatically?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#138

Post by shostack »

levemi wrote: post #101
shostack wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Imgur bit is troubling. Even in AlienBlue I've noticed that when an image starts defaulting to the Standard Imgur view, and I click "Optimized", it switches right back to Standard. I'm not sure if that is Imgur intentionally trying to prevent people from not seeing their "Download our app" banners everywhere, or a bug in AB, but it is very annoying. Ultimately, when I see an image or video thumbnail on Reddit, I…

> I'm not sure if that is Imgur intentionally trying to prevent people from not seeing their "Download our app" banners everywhere, or a bug in AB, but it is very annoying. It's a problem with Alien Blue, not imgur. It just needs to enable cookies across webviews.

Is this new then? It only started recently.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#139

Post by kennywinker »

robwilliams wrote: post #96
wvenable wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not make AlienBlue the official reddit app? They bought it! This is a very strange course of action. This is one of "Things You Should Never Do" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Well it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.

My guess: AlienBlue was developed with power users in mind and this new app was developed with showing people ads in mind.

A major re-design gives them the excuse to remove and never re-add many features and tune the app for a different type of user and a different type of interaction.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#140

Post by petepete »

greenspot wrote: post #5
skrowl wrote: post #2

The official Reddit app for Android is pretty feature poor so far. It only offers a default theme and a dark theme. It only offers a default layout and a compact layout. No customization beyond that. No option to always view links in external browser and Imgur links aren't opened in the Imgur app (etc for other sites). It's nice that they've finally released an official app, but to use this instead of Bacon Reader /…

Not sure. Today, I was installing all your mentioned Reddit clients and deinstalling them right afterwards. While the first impression is good and they seem to offer lots of features they lack one important thing (at least the free versions)—to save a sub in a favorite list which is easy to access. Something which is essential and they don't offer it or hide it away in the paid version. Something btw which the Now Re…

Reddit Sync does this very well, it's accessible from the left sidebar.

http://i.imgur.com/GK5xBcA.png

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