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Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by riversflow » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

wescarpenter wrote: post #283

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #254

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Another YT issue I personally find annoying as someone who has recorded a LOT of programming tutorials is all the garbage that pops up on the lower part of the screen whenever the viewer presses pause. A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal . In the past, YT allowed creators to prevent this behavior and recommended videos in general by appending a ?rel=0 to an e…

YES. Video recommendations covering the screen while I pause to try and read something. Is it really that niche of a use case that the user is pausing the video to better view something in said video?! How many more places do we need to shove recommendation systems down the users throat.

It makes sense if you consider the possibility that through the anonymity of analytics YT is optimizing it’s website to keep children glued to tablets/smartphones. When a user pauses, show them something else to watch, they might be bored and about to start playing roblox. Also, if they switch videos it gives you more views to give to your creators, and you can lead the next vid with an ad. Need to get more ads to those impressionable little eyes!

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by cal5k » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

asdfman123 wrote: post #285

dyingkneepad wrote: post #282

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I'm not parent, but the very fact that they keep degrading the UI and implementing dark patterns and doing crap like requiring login to read comments is exactly what gives the impression that reddit is dying. It is hard to assume that people on top care about their users when every single news about any kind of change looks like to a downgrade to my Reddit experience.

I'm still baffled about the UI "improvement." It's comically bad. It's so busy and I can't find anything I want. I have never, ever seen a site anywhere near as big as Reddit with such a bad redesign. It seems they could have hired one UX guy and one graphic guy... I could probably pay some people on Fiverr $100 total to create a better design for the entirety of Reddit. The old design was boring and out of date, but…

You can still opt out of the redesign, which I do. I find the new desktop design to be intolerable.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by pjc50 » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #275

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #254

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Another YT issue I personally find annoying as someone who has recorded a LOT of programming tutorials is all the garbage that pops up on the lower part of the screen whenever the viewer presses pause. A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal . In the past, YT allowed creators to prevent this behavior and recommended videos in general by appending a ?rel=0 to an e…

> A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal. In the DOS days the Pause button on your keyboard would actually stop the text being scrolled (if you had a multi-page output). I wonder if Windows (or well any desktop OS) can have a feature where that button would freeze frame the display.

Could probably do it today with autohotkey or similar; take screenshot and display full screen borderless.

Very confusing when you click on the screenshot though.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by zuzun » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #269

XaspR8d wrote: post #180

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> As for the reddit site itself I wonder what is the ratio of old.reddit viewers vs reddit viewers are. I moderate a top 100 sub and if the built-in stats are to be believed, the recent breakdown is something like: = Pageviews = 40% apps 28% old reddit 17% mobile reddit 15% new reddit = Unique visits = 41% mobile reddit 27% new reddit 24% apps 8% old reddit This doesn't really capture the ratio of contributors who us…

I moderate a rather popular programming subreddit (whose users you would expect to be more conscious of newreddit vs oldreddit), here's the eyeballed breakdown of our stats: --- Monthly uniques (200k total): New Reddit: 55% Mobile Web: 20% Reddit Apps: 15% Old Reddit: 10% --- Monthly Pageviews (3M total): New Reddit: 30% Mobile Web: 10% Reddit Apps: 30% Old Reddit: 30% So in our case, while the ones using Old Reddit…

If a programming-related search takes me to Reddit, I always get the new version and I don't like it at all.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by criddell » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

vb6sp6 wrote: post #262

criddell wrote: post #187

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And Wikipedia? And email? AOL? Compuserve? Citadel BBS? Finger?

dictionary.com defines social media as "websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking." So the common use case of wikipedia, reading about things, is not. But digging deeper into the editors\editing section there is definitely social media happening both in forming networks and creating content for others I don't think email qualifies. While you can sha…

I've always thought the key characteristics of social media is sharing to a social network. When I post here or on Reddit I have no idea who it's going to.

Facebook and Twitter are social networks because I share stuff and there's a definite social graph that I'm part of.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by sgarman » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:50 PM UTC

asdfman123 wrote: post #285

dyingkneepad wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not parent, but the very fact that they keep degrading the UI and implementing dark patterns and doing crap like requiring login to read comments is exactly what gives the impression that reddit is dying. It is hard to assume that people on top care about their users when every single news about any kind of change looks like to a downgrade to my Reddit experience.

I'm still baffled about the UI "improvement." It's comically bad. It's so busy and I can't find anything I want. I have never, ever seen a site anywhere near as big as Reddit with such a bad redesign. It seems they could have hired one UX guy and one graphic guy... I could probably pay some people on Fiverr $100 total to create a better design for the entirety of Reddit. The old design was boring and out of date, but…

They are just following the Digg roadmap. We all know how that turned out.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by asdfman123 » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:50 PM UTC

cal5k wrote: post #292

asdfman123 wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still baffled about the UI "improvement." It's comically bad. It's so busy and I can't find anything I want. I have never, ever seen a site anywhere near as big as Reddit with such a bad redesign. It seems they could have hired one UX guy and one graphic guy... I could probably pay some people on Fiverr $100 total to create a better design for the entirety of Reddit. The old design was boring and out of date, but…

You can still opt out of the redesign, which I do. I find the new desktop design to be intolerable.

I worry that eventually they're going to force everyone onto the new design, though.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by olyjohn » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:50 PM UTC

cal5k wrote: post #292

asdfman123 wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still baffled about the UI "improvement." It's comically bad. It's so busy and I can't find anything I want. I have never, ever seen a site anywhere near as big as Reddit with such a bad redesign. It seems they could have hired one UX guy and one graphic guy... I could probably pay some people on Fiverr $100 total to create a better design for the entirety of Reddit. The old design was boring and out of date, but…

You can still opt out of the redesign, which I do. I find the new desktop design to be intolerable.

old.reddit.com, my account is even set up to redirect me to it automatically.

It still wasn't enough to make me stick around. The popups on my phone to use the app on every page load are infuriating. Especially when I use Firefox on my phone, and it tells me to "Continue with Safari." I guess because Google started doing that bullshit on their apps, it's okay for everybody else to copy it.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by jcomis » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:53 PM UTC

harimau777 wrote: post #31

It feels to me like social media has been imploding recently. It seems like I am seeing more and more efforts to overtly force people use an app, associate browsing with an account, and link their account with a real world identity (e.g. via phone number). This in turn makes the platforms less useful and more hostile to users and presumably at some point that will cause users to leave the system. It also feels like s…

People want to share and be social. It's inherent to our nature. People are now realizing they don't want a down to the bit extremely searchable archive of what they've shared. They see it ruining lives and they do not want to be a part of it. Talk to any kid. Facebook is "old", "creepy", "dead", but they will use tiktok/snap because it's fun and seemingly ephemeral.

Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

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Post by loceng » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:53 PM UTC

remote_phone wrote: post #149

Reddit is the Uber of social media. All of the hard work is done for free by the mods of each subreddit. But they have no piece of the pie when Reddit goes IPO. The entire value is predicated on an Army of free workers that get nothing when the site IPOs.

Geocities was first platform that was successful due to this community moderation model - they did however give payout to moderators when they IPO's; I think it was $1,000 USD?