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Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by Vinnl »

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…

You can disable that banner in the hamburger menu when logged in.

Yes, you'd expect it to be gone after the first time you dismiss it, but you will probably still want to know that you can remove it :)

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by brynjolf »

Frustrating to discuss this on reddit as well. They always think we should watch and eait but that rarely works. Especially if they already added huge banners advertising their data collecting app and now autoplaying videos, before people complained they also autoplayed them with sound..

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by siddboots »

radiorental wrote: post #39

Top tier sites like reddit should not drop large, disruptive, releases like this. Take Amazon for example. If they went from the design 5-7 years ago straight to the current design, there would be uproar, Stock price dip etc. The incremental approach allows the site owner to both roll back bad ideas but also condition users into where the design is heading. (Correction: not Conde Nast) The owner, has a plan, which is…

To be fair, they are only "dropping" it on a small subset of users for the time being.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by ploggingdev »

s_dev wrote: post #35

As long as redditors can choose between the designs I don't see a problem. Once this choice is removed though they've veered in to Digg territory. All the power users and influencers will use the old design because they're used to it. I can see why reddit wants a redesign -- reddit is ugly but people are used to it that way and grew to like it. The redesign is for new users. Reddit has already been down this path wit…

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

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by MisterTea »

jacques_chester wrote: post #31

Mobile phones. Again. It's always mobile phones that ruin good websites these days. They optimise for swipe, scroll and tap. Look, like, emoji. They don't optimise for text. In fact they are increasingly hostile to it. The Tinderfication of online dating has been a depressing race to the bottom. The internet was never going to be as great as we thought it was. No other technology has been. Folks thought the telegraph…

It's okay. You, like me, are starting to realize that our way of computing is becoming obsolete. How many kids are using keyboard and mouse vs touch screens? They grow up thinking "this is how you use a computer". To them the mouse/keyboard ruins the whole touch(mobile) experience.

One day we'll be the old men yelling at internet clouds while sitting behind an old PC or some kind of open source terminal running an open source OS and weeping for the past.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by hyperpallium »

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…

protip: append ".compact" to the URL (before the "?" query string, if any). All reddit links will also now automatically have .compact. Bookmark it.

Starter pack: https://www.reddit.com/.compact https://www.reddit.com/r/all.compact https://www.reddit.com/message/inbox/.compact

This gives the old reddit mobile experience, which is far lighter and better. But some things are broken, e.g. "submit" is broken; "parent" take you to the modern mobile version (but "conext" works); "sidebar" needs a separate page.

To any reddit admins reading: please don't take this functionality away.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by intended »

radiorental wrote: post #39

Top tier sites like reddit should not drop large, disruptive, releases like this. Take Amazon for example. If they went from the design 5-7 years ago straight to the current design, there would be uproar, Stock price dip etc. The incremental approach allows the site owner to both roll back bad ideas but also condition users into where the design is heading. (Correction: not Conde Nast) The owner, has a plan, which is…

As I recall, Conde nast no longer controls reddit

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by agumonkey »

mantas wrote: post #27
agumonkey wrote: post #19

wonder what will be the next reddit .. maybe the last push before some decentralized thing that needed some userbase.

PhpBB or vBulletin reincarnations?

Actually I wouldn't mind, I miss the spirit of these boards. phpbb was hell, but it seems a lot of php things are now based on clean modules (even though a quick googling sheds doubts on the status of phpbb over symfony modules)

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by StavrosK »

severine wrote: post #40
StavrosK wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Relay" is also amazing. I realized just today that I browse HN from mobile Firefox, but reddit from Relay, and I realized that that's because Relay is so much better than any HN mobile app. It really makes a difference.

Have you tried Materialistic[1] for HN? Apache licensed, also on F-droid[2]. [1] https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic [2] https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/

Yes, it's what I currently use, but it has some problems (comment formatting shows up weirdly, the built-in browser uses desktop mode and doesn't let me resize sites so many are illegible, etc). It's the best I've found, though.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

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Post by Outpox »

severine wrote: post #40
StavrosK wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Relay" is also amazing. I realized just today that I browse HN from mobile Firefox, but reddit from Relay, and I realized that that's because Relay is so much better than any HN mobile app. It really makes a difference.

Have you tried Materialistic[1] for HN? Apache licensed, also on F-droid[2]. [1] https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic [2] https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/

I use both Relay for Reddit and Materialistic for HN and they're absolutely brilliant. Didn't take me that long to pay for Relay Pro.
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