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Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by rognjen »

ricardobayes wrote: post #215

This whole rant post is about reddit requiring users to register to use their (free) service. I don't find it a problem at all. If you wish to use it, register. If you don't, don't.

> This whole rant post is about reddit requiring users to register to use their (free) service.

Yes, in part, but your comment disregards two things.

1. The dishonest things they're doing to require that.

2. The fact that they're requiring registering to consume content others have created.

> If you wish to use it, register. If you don't, don't.

I don't so I didn't. And I wrote why and what I would have liked to be done differently.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by rognjen »

dageshi wrote: post #191
rognjen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, paying for API might be a better monetization strategy then just actively shitting on their users.

The percentage of people who would pay for it, probably wouldn't make up for the dev time to implement it. Once upon a time the HN userbase and the reddit user base weren't a million miles apart, those days are long gone, reddit is mainstream and mainstream consumers don't care that much about ads, the new UI or everything else this thread is up in arms about, it's still the defacto internet forum and nothing I've se…

App developers would pay for API not users.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by contravariant »

tmh88j wrote: post #380
dorfsmay wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried https://old.reddit.com ?

The day old reddit dies is the day I stop using reddit entirely. The desktop version is every bit as awful as the mobile version. For some reason they seem to think that seeing a few more posts or comments on the screen at page load is too much information to process, but taking up 1/4 of my screen with some pictures or videos is a better use of the space. Everything is so obfuscated and difficult to find. I can't st…

For a website who's main predecessor bit the dust after a wildly unpopular redesign they didn't do a terribly good job of learning from the past.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by nikisweeting »

DangitBobby wrote: post #129
jonplackett wrote: post #23

Surely the most annoying thing is the endless requests to download the app. So irritating! I refuse to download it just because they insist so hard. Reddit is the most basic site ever, there is absolutely no need for me to have an app.

I just found that there is setting checked in the menu (for anonymous and authenticated users) called "Ask to Open in App." I find it kind of curious that they would offer an option. Who would actually want this setting to be enabled? Maybe some developers snuck it in so they could use their own site without contracting cancer.

TIL, thank you so much for posting this.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by GravitasFailure »

noobquestion81 wrote: post #442
dorfsmay wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried https://old.reddit.com ?

Yes this is the way. What reddit has done to its own mobile experience is incredibly disrespectful, I couldn’t agree with this article more. Just... let me see your fucking ads? Does anyone know a way on ios to forcibly redirect all reddit links to old.reddit.com?

You could try browsing via i.reddit.com, which is an older mobile version, or a third party app with a better UI.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by rognjen »

johnnysinns wrote: post #204

Nothing more disrespectful than complaint about things you’re not willing to pay for.

Well, I mean I get what you're saying but that's my whole point. Reddit isn't (yet) providing a service worth paying for and I suggest things that I might pay for.

Secondly, there's plenty of free (as in money) things we complain about.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by eulgro »

throwaway284534 wrote: post #82

Does anyone else want to rant about Reddit’s AMP pages that show up on Google? Oh I could go on about it… The managers at Reddit, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the preferred experience of a Google user searching for content on reddit should redirected to their wonky app. And if they don’t have the app, they should be punished with modals upon modals. “Reddit looks better in the app!” Oh, you disagree? Well p…

Do yourself a favor and install a third-party app: Apollo, RIF, Boost, Infinity whatever. A few are available on F-Droid. No ads or other bullshit, web links open in the app, which loads must faster than the website.

As long as Reddit maintain their API and keep it free, I'll keep using Reddit. If they ever drop it, there's not much chance I will.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by rognjen »

dehrmann wrote: post #233

> Why aren’t they pivoting into a marketplace instead? I laughed a bit at this because they had previously bet hard on Reddit Gifts. No idea what happened, and the timing just might not have been right.

Gifts and currently rewards are just much easier and much much shittier versions of a marketplace and Patreon.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by rognjen »

dmix wrote: post #172

Their UX is as incompetent as their modding censorship policies which makes me think this rot goes to the top. It’s not just a bad marketing division, it’s the whole company. I remember Reddit being a whimsical fun place, now I see it as a corporation run by a robot lawyer without a sense of humour where raw mobile user impression numbers as the only valuable metric.

> UX is as incompetent

I don't agree with you there. Their UX is very competent it's just not pursuing the "correct" X.

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