I wonder if proliferation of ublock causes these issues. Less ad revenue, need to clamp down on free stuff.
Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?
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#322They are desperately trying to be TikTok. It will not work and has no chance of working. Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million (they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers when they had 200 million users at their peak and touted having 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release. Every post is people saying the Reddit app sucks and asking where Dubsmash went)
It's interesting everything trying to be TikTok. As a user, if I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok. I don't want TikTok, so I don't use TikTok. I use Facebook mainly for hobby/owners groups these days as that's where a lot of them are. I sometimes use the market place. My feed is mainly my interests, motorbikes, local events, local cafes/restaurants etc etc. Then there's reels i never interact with which get forced on me…
It’s how they’ve been taught to attract younger users. Cool new video app work to attract teens, we buy cool new video app.
There’s a relationship between how social- or video-centric an app is and how well short form video fits into their mix. You can’t shoehorn it in. Not least if you feel obliged to because you paid some ludicrous sum to tout the name.
For example, short form video feels ass-y on Reddit. It feels okay on YouTube, even if you don’t engage with it.
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#323It's about time reddit killed reddit, they've been trying for years and I hope they succeed. Godspeed, reddit.
Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?
#324They are desperately trying to be TikTok. It will not work and has no chance of working. Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million (they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers when they had 200 million users at their peak and touted having 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release. Every post is people saying the Reddit app sucks and asking where Dubsmash went)
I don't understand... Why does it have to be one app? Can't they make a TikTok-like app with a subreddit as a backend? So ppl get same content but with a different front-end?
It’s likely that very few Reddit actually users want short form video. And that the acquisition was mostly for the user base which they then tried desperately to hold on to.
So the obvious answer is to create a standalone service… which it was before they acquired it.
Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?
#325I was part of this test - I've refused to install the app for years (I prefer websites and the option to open tabs for later browsing). It was extremely annoying for a site I've used for 12+ years to treat me like that. It did massively cut my usage of Reddit (which I would consider to be quite high), I primarily access it from my phone and I all but stopped using it for the week or so I was in the "experiment".
> I prefer websites and the option to open tabs for later browsing The number of times I lost a post because when I switched app or didn’t use my phone for a while reddit would just reset to the home page… I think they really didn’t realize how much the shitty UX would enrage people against them.
That's the point actually. And not only in Reddit, but in all current social networks. You must lose posts, you must always look at the fresh snapshot of posts. And it works, people are conditioned to work with ephemeral internet. Apps and sites all work like this nowadays - Facebook, Instagram, Shitter, Reddit main page, Netflix main page, even HN partially. You blink and everything is gone, here is new content for you, enjoy, but not too long and don't become attached.
This drives up engagement in the population with attention disorders and promotes advertisement, since it is organically natural to see ads between ad-like endless posts.
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#326I deleted reddit account week ago. It's just time sink without any value: - It's true that some hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information. But it's just occasional view of such subreddit and "sort by top". New posts are 99% attention seeking posts without value, even on good subreddits - Besides the above, 99% of reddit is political virtue signalling, memes, karma farming
It's useful to ask specific questions that google doesn't know. People still collectively know more than Google, and are easier queryable)
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I would love to know the conversion rate that resulted from that test, it must have been absolutely abysmal.
I’ve already been ignoring the extremely annoying spammy pop ups telling me to download the app for years. I’m not downloading the app. I am just not doing it. Period.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve already been ignoring the extremely annoying spammy pop ups telling me to download the app for years. I’m not downloading the app. I am just not doing it. Period.
if you happen to be using safari on ios, someone just created an extension for cleaning up the mobile web version: https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...
Now that they have extension support in IOS, I'm surprised RES has not been ported across.
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They ended that way too early. There is so much good content to write about now. I know it’s hard to transition, but do you really need (near) the full cast still?
What we really need is more shows to take up the concept and satirize modern tech (and SV specifically) from their own unique angles. The only one that did was the short-lived Amazon original Betas , which had more irritating younger characters, yet for all of its memespeak it really did feel like it grokked the startup bubble culture well enough, especially since it was actually set in the SoMa of San Francisco, rat…
Maybe ChatGPT can write one.