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I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by Matheus28 »

gaoshan wrote: post #15
bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

I agree that Reddit is doing a good job of harming its usability (and the overall experience with mods that wield the ban hammer for the slightest disagreements, for example) I do not understand this sentiment for old reddit. I've been on the site for over 15 years and while I do pine for the old days (when comments and content were of much higher quality) the old UI holds no such sway over me.

New UI feels very sluggish. For whatever reason it just struggles performance-wise.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by rat9988 »

gaoshan wrote: post #15
bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

I agree that Reddit is doing a good job of harming its usability (and the overall experience with mods that wield the ban hammer for the slightest disagreements, for example) I do not understand this sentiment for old reddit. I've been on the site for over 15 years and while I do pine for the old days (when comments and content were of much higher quality) the old UI holds no such sway over me.

With RES it's it's truely nice to use the old UI.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by Conscat »

skilled wrote: post #19

Meh, Reddit is a boring platform outside of your personal interests. I myself follow only one subreddit and check maybe other 4-5 for news/updates, but none of these are in the top 1000, maybe not even top 10,000 subreddits. I find Reddit culture to be bland and uninspiring. Even technical/niche subreddits get absolutely run over by "noobs" and people who have too many questions but too little patience to do research…

r/cpp doesn't allow question-asking threads, except for questions which explicitly invite discussion.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by pb7 »

haunter wrote: post #18
pb7 wrote: post #4

If you're struggling with social media addiction, I would recommend deleting the native apps off your phone. The better, smoother UX and faster response time reduces any and all friction. I find that when I have to use the mobile sites, I can't stand them so I naturally want to leave. Reddit's mobile site is a dumpster fire so it's perfect for wanting to keep your sessions short. Instagram's is similar. Sadly, Twitte…

>The better, smoother UX and faster response time reduces any and all friction It's funny cause old reddit simply in the mobile browser itself is 100% better than any mobile app

I disagree. Apollo on iOS is the most potent drug I've ever consumed. It's a wonderful app (kudos to Christian, it's rare for a one-man show to take the throne in the days of companies giving themselves preferential treatment) but I can't have it installed because I'll go back to binging Reddit.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by r00fus »

gaoshan wrote: post #15
bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

I agree that Reddit is doing a good job of harming its usability (and the overall experience with mods that wield the ban hammer for the slightest disagreements, for example) I do not understand this sentiment for old reddit. I've been on the site for over 15 years and while I do pine for the old days (when comments and content were of much higher quality) the old UI holds no such sway over me.

Well, for starters, old.reddit.com on mobile safari doesn't put an overlay telling you to use the app instead when you get a deep link.

Also it loads much faster. Imagine if HN were re-done with a lot more glitz and current HN was turned into old.news.ycombinator.com? I bet a lot of HNers would prefer the old interface especially if there were some annoying UI patterns in the new one.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by d23 »

clawoo wrote: post #17

LeechBlock is surpisingly effective for me. I block all time sinks during working hours with an exception of 2 minutes every 4 hours to quickly check whether the world is ending. My productivity has skyrocketed.

I was using it for a while, but unfortunately my muscle memory has gotten too good at disabling it.

Maybe I should do smaller increments like you do though. I was previously setting a limited amount of time per 24 hours, but maybe a few minutes every 4 hours would be better.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

gaoshan wrote: post #15
bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

I agree that Reddit is doing a good job of harming its usability (and the overall experience with mods that wield the ban hammer for the slightest disagreements, for example) I do not understand this sentiment for old reddit. I've been on the site for over 15 years and while I do pine for the old days (when comments and content were of much higher quality) the old UI holds no such sway over me.

It works without JS.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by simse »

bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

Reddit has one of the worst frontends I have ever seen. Not even from a "SPAs are evil"-standpoint. It's just awful. That has deconditioned me very effectively.

Re: I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

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Post by animesh »

bmarquez wrote: post #6

> To quit Reddit, I wanted the Pavlok to deliver a painful shock every time I visited Reddit That's a bit...extreme. Fortunately Reddit is doing a great job diminishing its own usability. When Reddit enables their paid API and locks out 3rd party clients in the process, there will be greater friction to browse. When they eventually kill old.reddit.com that'll be the nail in the coffin.

They are on a path slowly killing third party reddit apps. Recent announcement on this. (An Update Regarding Reddit’s API https://redd.it/12qwagm)

Copied from a third party app (sync) dev's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/12qwwjh/an_upda...

It looks like they'll be no more free access so every third party app will have to charge a subscription that goes to Reddit (monthly and with no costing provided yet)

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