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Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by JoshMnem »

vesinisa wrote: post #4

Sadly, the reddit website has become a travesty - especially on mobile. A huge "DOWNLOAD THE REDDIT APP" banner obscures literally 30% of the page. There is a teeny-tiny "view on mobille site" link in small, low-contrast text that can be used to dismiss the annoying banner. Due to its size and user-hostile design, the Reddit banner is even worse than most news sites that try to push their newsletter/app/subscription…

Also too much animation. Material Design has accessibility problems for motion sensitivity.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by agumonkey »

mantas wrote: post #176
agumonkey wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. I like reddit quite a bit, it has that weird organic value that overcome a lot of weirdness and subpar features. Still old boards were .. much more home like than most of the web 2.0 ever dreamed of.

Not that they're bad. There's definitely a lot of subreddits with a good charm. But they're PITA from information archive point of view. Browsing old threads is much harder than in classic BB. Thus people keep asking same question over and over again even more than in the old days :) Hundreds-of-pages-over-a-decade historical threads don't happen on either of new platforms either :( Which is one of the lovely quirks…

oh that sure, reddit has no function here on most subreddits, but for non instantaneous chat/help it's very good.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by agumonkey »

wott wrote: post #184
agumonkey wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. I like reddit quite a bit, it has that weird organic value that overcome a lot of weirdness and subpar features. Still old boards were .. much more home like than most of the web 2.0 ever dreamed of.

> I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. Hmmm, then I guess that's because you don't come often on airfrance any more, for it has not been looking nice in the last months.

I get there often, I don't know if it's worse because I didn't read it until recently.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by ApolloFortyNine »

thomasz wrote: post #83
ploggingdev wrote: post #44

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Any good tl;dr on what happened between Ellen Pao and reddit? I didn't follow the story when it was playing out.

She closed some long running hatefests like fatpeoplehate and took the fall for the very controversial firing of an employee, which later turned out to be Ohanian's decision.

She basically opened the floodgates for banning subreddits Reddit doesn't like. Up until the ban of fatpeoplehate, the only subreddits that would get banned were CP related or based around doxing.

Now pretty much anything is on the table.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by ApolloFortyNine »

cup-of-tea wrote: post #80

Reddit is terrible for discussion anyway. You can't have a discussion when people can "downvote" your post. Nothing of value has been lost here. I say that as someone who used reddit heavily until about a month ago when I kicked the addiction.

All downvoting does is enforce 'crowd-think'. You could never picture it today, but back in 2012, /r/politics was much more central then it was today (still left leaning, but you could actually find differing opinions). But soon after that election, anyone who disagreed would get downvoted into oblivion, and eventually those people stop posting. And what you're left with is today's /r/politics.

You can see this in a lot of topic related subreddits, if something is extremely popular, you'll get downvoted for calling out any faults. Eventually people just stop posting.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by Consultant32452 »

nhangen wrote: post #196

How can an article about a re-design not actually show or compare the two designs?

https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/

This one at least has some screenshots of the new design. It feels like a Facebook clone to me. In particular it looks like they're flattening comments to be like FB rather than the thread? model that Reddit has today.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by oehpr »

dkns wrote: post #29
liotier wrote: post #9

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On Android, use the "Reddit if fun" application - classic Reddit, fit for mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....

Yeah but I don't want to use another app for that. I already have app for browsing Reddit - it's called web browser and I'd like to keep using it rather than downloading yet another app that does basically the same.

If I can offer a suggestion. If you have android then I'd recommend you switch your browser to firefox and follow these steps (not sure if iOS has firefox, or if it does, if these steps will work on it):

1. download uBlock origin for it (yep, same add on, works in android firefox)

2. browse to reddit, an interstitial should pop up nagging you to use the app.

3. open up the menu and select uBlock origin at the bottom, select the eye dropper tool.

4. click on the div that is dimming all the content, this should give you an option to filter it out, uBlock will give you a list of parent elements you can add to the filter instead. In this case the one you are looking for is .DualPartInterstitial. You can verify with the preview button.

This will commit this div to your personal filter list.

If you frequent sites with these types of nags, this process will let you manually dismiss them until they redesign. Ideally they would respect your preferences themselves, but they never do.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by WA »

swozey wrote: post #182
lbotos wrote: post #171

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Right! I've always appreciated that through one login, I got the equivalent of basically endless forums. Sure, I do miss the "tight-knit" nature of the forums of the late 90's, but reddit still gives value.

I have to use Forums for a few hobbies and after switching to reddit years ago it feels so different. I'm clearly not getting my "NEED INSTANT COMMUNICATION!" dopamine injection from forums like I am with reddit.

I don’t know. Back in the day, I occasionally spammed the F5 key eagerly awaiting new replies in forums.
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