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Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by pasquinelli »

isostatic wrote: post #166
abandonliberty wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you actually manage to affect the behavior of other people by highlighting what Reddit is doing. However, often people complain and do nothing, or complain and keep buying the company's product. (e.g. games with microtransactions)

How do other people using games with microtransactions, or using reddit, or watching TV with adverts, harm me?

how does opening a thread to gripe about those things harm anyone? but if it persuades enough people, they could collectively have the influence to make it better.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by btreecat »

Rapzid wrote: post #62
minimaxir wrote: post #4

Reddit's recent tactics have incidentally topped /r/assholedesign lately, such as using a fake loading screen for the app-pushing ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/8k10c7/not_g... ), a Facebook-esque obfuscation of ad-posts in the app ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/85liof/how_r... ), and mobile notifications for subreddits you don't follow ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/co…

I've had to start disabling notifications on just about everything due similar tactics across the app-o-system. Facebook spam was getting nuts; phone vibrating at 2AM because somebody I haven't had contact with in years has updated a picture? Google has even been getting really bad with TV show episode availability updates for shows I have never watched or searched for? Or is that some other app? I think the shark is…

I switched to FaceSlim App on android a few years ago (when the messenger app switch happened) and am glad I did. I don't need the notifications going off all the time, the constant tracking etc.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by jawilson2 »

Rapzid wrote: post #62
minimaxir wrote: post #4

Reddit's recent tactics have incidentally topped /r/assholedesign lately, such as using a fake loading screen for the app-pushing ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/8k10c7/not_g... ), a Facebook-esque obfuscation of ad-posts in the app ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/85liof/how_r... ), and mobile notifications for subreddits you don't follow ( https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/co…

I've had to start disabling notifications on just about everything due similar tactics across the app-o-system. Facebook spam was getting nuts; phone vibrating at 2AM because somebody I haven't had contact with in years has updated a picture? Google has even been getting really bad with TV show episode availability updates for shows I have never watched or searched for? Or is that some other app? I think the shark is…

I switched to a Pixel 2 from iPhone a few months ago, and have generally been very happy. At first, though, I would get to the train station and get a notification like "There is a McDonalds 500 Feet Away! Could you review it for us?" Or Starbucks. What the hell? It was some "feature" in Google Maps I guess trying to crowdsource some goddamn thing for "My Places". I had to go through all of the google apps and disable a TON of notifications, tracking, etc.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by wilsonnb2 »

paidleaf wrote: post #206
kirubakaran wrote: post #10

I'm thankful for their new design, actually. After many years of trying, I have now managed to successfully kick my Reddit habit completely and have gained precious hours in my day.

> I'm thankful for their new design, actually. After having to click "visit old reddit" a few times, I just got sick of it. > After many years of trying, I have now managed to successfully kick my Reddit habit completely and have gained precious hours in my day. It stopped being fun. Reddit has turned into the infowars of the left. It's just spiteful and angry leftist politics 24/7. I suppose it was inevitable when r…

> It's just spiteful and angry leftist politics 24/7.

Unless you're specifically visiting r/politics, r/latestagecapitalism, r/socialism, or similar subreddits, this just isn't true.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by mrguyorama »

pjc50 wrote: post #182
underwater wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically the mobile site is a full single page app, while the desktop site (or at least the old one) was mostly server rendered. It's not impossible to create a fast mobile client rendered site (Twitter have done well) but it's certainly not as easy as it is with plain old HTML.

Yeah, the operating assuptions of client side rendering seem to be that server-side CPU is expensive while network bandwidth and latency are cheap and the client has a fast CPU which it isn't using. I do wonder how it ever took off.

You don't pay a dime for the amount of client's CPU you use

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by YourMatt »

justinclift wrote: post #179
iamdave wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've come to loathe this about social networking sites. Twitter (which I use for sports buffoonery and hot takes from the community) is the absolute worst about this. "Hey your friend did a thing, go congratulate them" "Hey, a friend knows this person. Go follow them too" "Hey, your friend just posted a picture of spaghetti, go signal your approval" Hey. How about I check in and interact with my friends on my time in…

Yeah, I deleted my Twitter account a while ago when they started to put random crap into my "Notifications", and it couldn't be turned off. Keeping on using a service like that just encourages further bad behaviour.

I've spent so much time tweaking Twitter notifications and ultimately just had to turn them all off. It would be nice if they had one option for notifying me for @mentions and nothing else.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by your-nanny »

paidleaf wrote: post #207

They are trying to IPO for once last chance at a cashout for their most recent investor/owner ( advanced publications ). http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-is-reportedly-consider... They aren't interested in user experience. They are interested in drumming up mobile #s in the short term to get the best valuation possible. Reddit, like most things on the internet, have turned away from their idealistic beginnings f…

Sounds like bubblenomics.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by prepend »

isostatic wrote: post #166
abandonliberty wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you actually manage to affect the behavior of other people by highlighting what Reddit is doing. However, often people complain and do nothing, or complain and keep buying the company's product. (e.g. games with microtransactions)

How do other people using games with microtransactions, or using reddit, or watching TV with adverts, harm me?

This is a good question and I used to have this opinion. Then I noticed how I didn’t really like video games that much and that they largely all had microtransactions.

Sure there are a few, but creatives are limited and if the are making a game, they choose between designing for $50 for a complete experience or for $13/month for the rest of your life. These affect gameplay drastically.

So people liking microtransactions mean these games make more money, so they are made, so stories are worse, so my game play is affected.

I loved Mass Effect 1. The mind set of “why would I care if multiplayer charges for stuff?” led to the franchise sucking. And while there are other games to play, none as good as Mass Effect exist.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by prepend »

ploggingdev wrote: post #60

> now it's a floating bar at the bottom when reading comments that for some reason I can't get rid of despite the x button The x button works for me, but when I load an other page it reappears. So reddit wants me to dismiss the floating bar for every page I visit on the site. I'm curious to learn about the thinking behind building out such dark patterns. Have the reddit employees tried using the site on mobile while…

I wonder how they use the site. Or if they do. Or if they have some internal tool.

I find it hard to believe that no one prefers the old mobile site. That would be pretty weird that their designers and programmers have such odd tastes that they actually like the app or the Facebook style scroll.

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