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Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by phist_mcgee » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

G3rn0ti wrote: post #100

mathnmusic wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After all the popups, it needs a last one saying "this site works best in our mobile app".

I really hate that about Reddit. I liked browsing discussions on my phone occasionally but the web page kept nagging me into using the app instead. So finally I installed it. But now when googling for information and finding Reddit boards about my topic of interest clicking on „use app“ does not open Reddit app but instead directs me to the stupid App store. Useless! But maybe it’s Apple‘s fault here?

Nope. Deep linking to apps is a solved area. Reddit completely drops the ball on this, and has for years. Their engineering is a complete shambles. The only reason they survive is their market share, not for any reason of 'good experience'

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by ptudan » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:26 PM UTC

G3rn0ti wrote: post #100

mathnmusic wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After all the popups, it needs a last one saying "this site works best in our mobile app".

I really hate that about Reddit. I liked browsing discussions on my phone occasionally but the web page kept nagging me into using the app instead. So finally I installed it. But now when googling for information and finding Reddit boards about my topic of interest clicking on „use app“ does not open Reddit app but instead directs me to the stupid App store. Useless! But maybe it’s Apple‘s fault here?

Nope. Decent programmers know how to deeplink into apps, it's completely possible.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by ptudan » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

phist_mcgee wrote: post #141

G3rn0ti wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hate that about Reddit. I liked browsing discussions on my phone occasionally but the web page kept nagging me into using the app instead. So finally I installed it. But now when googling for information and finding Reddit boards about my topic of interest clicking on „use app“ does not open Reddit app but instead directs me to the stupid App store. Useless! But maybe it’s Apple‘s fault here?

Nope. Deep linking to apps is a solved area. Reddit completely drops the ball on this, and has for years. Their engineering is a complete shambles. The only reason they survive is their market share, not for any reason of 'good experience'

haha clone of my comment at the same time

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by lazyfanatic » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:28 PM UTC

I miss stumbleupon too my friend.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by kinnth » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:28 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo should add an ad / popup score to every article so that in the search results you could preview just how much crap you're expecting to see if you click. If there are no ads it could be a gold result or something :)

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by fouc » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

leavenotracks wrote: post #120

themodelplumber wrote: post #90

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> I long for a curated list of such sites. I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases. Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the to…

> …but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is. Would that there were a search engine out there that prioritised the indexing of these high quality ‘well behaved’ sites.

Interesting it occurs to me that google search could do this, but they have a conflict of interest - adsense.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by phist_mcgee » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:31 PM UTC

ptudan wrote: post #143

phist_mcgee wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. Deep linking to apps is a solved area. Reddit completely drops the ball on this, and has for years. Their engineering is a complete shambles. The only reason they survive is their market share, not for any reason of 'good experience'

haha clone of my comment at the same time

Great minds think alike ;)

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by junon » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:32 PM UTC

Little details - making it to the article and the click out gives you the browser "Are you sure you want to leave?" prompt.

Scary accurate. I hate the web.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by abhinavsharma » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

fouc wrote: post #146

leavenotracks wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> …but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is. Would that there were a search engine out there that prioritised the indexing of these high quality ‘well behaved’ sites.

Interesting it occurs to me that google search could do this, but they have a conflict of interest - adsense.

Million short sort of does this

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by rchaud » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

leavenotracks wrote: post #82

So true, so sad. These days, when even a few hurdles of crap present themselves, I often just leave. I don’t care what the site has to say or sell me. Whenever I come across a site that just displays content immediately, it fills me with joy. Usually it’s some obscure personal or academic site, but for a moment I feel like I’ve found a gem in the desert and I browse happily for a while…then I promptly add to a list o…

I keep a list of personal/small websites as well. Sites that don't have this endless amount of marketing and tracking cruft.

Unfortunately it makes for pretty boring reading. So many sites out there have like 4 or 5 blog posts, and that's it.