Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#51

Post by criley2 » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

dkns wrote: post #29

liotier wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Android, use the "Reddit if fun" application - classic Reddit, fit for mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....

Yeah but I don't want to use another app for that. I already have app for browsing Reddit - it's called web browser and I'd like to keep using it rather than downloading yet another app that does basically the same.

A web browser is an inferior tool for the job of accessing reddit API in a mobile context.

Reddit has always been app-first on mobile, web-first on desktop. This has been true since the very first reddit mobile app.

If you're okay using your very inferior solution, then please do not come in here to complain about your willfully chosen inferior experience, because the people here will only seek to help you by educating you on the basic ways to use the reddit service...

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#52

Post by sreyaNotfilc » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

gm-conspiracy wrote: post #13

digg v3?

I thought it was digg v4 that was Digg's undoing. Which was taken over by...Reddit. I guess its time for some other community site to take over. Maybe those Amino apps.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#53

Post by api » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

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…

I never download "the app" because I know the privacy and security settings of my browser will not apply there and everything on my phone will get hoovered.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#54

Post by solarkraft » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

siddboots wrote: post #43

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.

I read 1%, which is a whole lot. But the previous poster's (very valid, I find) point is not to roll out a vast redesign slowly to all users, but rather small changes (possibly with testing on small groups beforehand).

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#55

Post by iampims » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

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…

I believe they are no longer owned by Condé Nast.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#56

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

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…

[deleted]

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#57

Post by Fifer82 » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

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…

I completely agree and even when you just accept all this and actually get the App, it is pretty terrible (on IOS).

As in, it stops loading posts, and stops infinite scrolling, so you have to basically kill the app, then go back into it.

I don't see how that is more useful than the website or a better experience.

Also another issue is that many links just don't work. I can't see `streamable` and many others because the page that opens has no touch detection. I have to select `...` then go to `Open in Safari` to make it work.

Reddit and YouTube are the only things stopping my IPad from gathering dust.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#58

Post by invalidusernam3 » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 12:01 PM UTC

criley2 wrote: post #51

dkns wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but I don't want to use another app for that. I already have app for browsing Reddit - it's called web browser and I'd like to keep using it rather than downloading yet another app that does basically the same.

A web browser is an inferior tool for the job of accessing reddit API in a mobile context. Reddit has always been app-first on mobile, web-first on desktop. This has been true since the very first reddit mobile app. If you're okay using your very inferior solution, then please do not come in here to complain about your willfully chosen inferior experience, because the people here will only seek to help you by educati…

> Reddit has always been app-first on mobile

No it hasn't, they only released the official reddit app in 2016. Reddit bought alien blue in 2014 but even that was only available on iOS

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#59

Post by akerro » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

dotcoma wrote: post #3

The question is: By mistake or by design?

There are no mistakes in it. This was planned years ago, they spent a lot of time evaluating different technologies and UI mockups. I'm interested to see if AMA with Barak Obama will be still readable, or will start consuming gigabytes of RAM.

Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

#60

Post by gedy » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

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…

> The redesign is for new users

And I suspect bigger, more visible ads/paid content