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Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by egypturnash »

throwaway64643 wrote: post #313
egypturnash wrote: post #162

Why aren’t they pivoting into a marketplace instead? I'm just gonna guess this is because "supporting and policing a marketplace" is its own special kind of hell; supporting and policing a discussion forum is bad enough without adding on all the way monetary transactions can go awry.

Honestly, all suggestions from the original post is the epitome of "If everyone is stupid, then why aren’t you rich". The moment he suggested OnlyFans model on Reddit, all of his suggestions lost value. Do you know that OnlyFans even doesn't want to be OnlyFans anymore?

Sales site appears. Porn uses site. Site gets big off porn money; kicks off porn. It’s the eternal cycle.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by saagarjha »

thelazyoxymoron wrote: post #493
tmh88j wrote: post #446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried appollo a while back and I was not a fan. My biggest gripe with the UI of appolo and post-redesigned reddit is that it feels like instagram or a facebook. I don't like endlessly scrolling through pictures and auto-playing videos since most of them are of no interest to me. If I want to view a picture/video I'll click on it. It clutters up the page with content I don't care about. Mobile browsing (for me at le…

This was exactly my problem as well, and after trying a bunch of mobile apps, I've finally settled on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.... . The UI is compact and keeps me from going insane while browsing.

I mean, you're suggesting an app for a different platform.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by htamas »

arcturus17 wrote: post #155

Yea, fuck all this noise. I've been meaning to quit any and all digital activity that's a bottomless well (ie, you can get more content ad infinitum). This includes social networks, Youtube, Netflix, etc. Of these, Reddit was probably my worst vice, as I could just pop up my phone and endlessly read mind-numbing crap, no matter the place and time. My monkey brain has been completely addicted to this motion for well o…

So what do you do when you don't really feel like thinking about anything, like after a long meeting or while drinking your coffe after lunch, or waiting for a build to finish?

I feel like this is my main problem. Sometimes I just want to turn off my brain a bit or I have to do something boring and then I pick up my phone but get stuck on it for too long.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by jcrza »

wting wrote: post #207

I was the EM for Reddit's Growth team around this time. I am responsible for / contributed to a few features like the current signup flow, AMP pages, push notifications, email digests, app download interstitials, etc. There was a new product lead who joined with many good ideas, but some of them were dark patterns that I heavily protested. After a few months of this, it was obvious that I was going to be reigned in o…

I'm /u/zjz on wallstreetbets. That google sign-in flow thing has caused us a good bit of hassle because people became convinced that usernames fitting the Word-Word-#### scheme are all bots.

It doesn't help that the kind of person who lets a google sign-in type flow suggest a username for them is probably a lazy commenter.

Perhaps an announcement in the future when a user-facing identifier is auto-generated would be wise.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by OrangeMusic »

diminish wrote: post #143
tbrake wrote: post #54

I've long thought about making a thread like this so I'm happy to see it. Fed up with this actively user-hostile web experience to try and drive people to the app. My main gripe is definitely expanding comments - > First of all, only the top comment will be shown. Then you can tap view more which will load another two. But you cannot open all the comments. Because the "create an account to continue" toast pictured is…

Reddit has become another VC invested company where crippling features, dark patterns on forced "adoption" and dark "growth" hacks du jours are the norms. I'm a very early and long term user, and I slowly moved away after "the" investment. HN on the other hand is still safe, as the huge success of YC and their aim of gathering talent and readers gives more financial freedom. What if some investor now invests in HN, g…

If that happens, let's use Usenet?

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by evilnight »

tygrak wrote: post #406
dredmorbius wrote: post #321

Tildes.net ( https://tildes.net ) has been a refreshingly sane, well-designed, and well-administered alternative. I all but completely gave up on Reddit for my own posting a couple of years ago, following an early set of "features" that I'd categorise more as "contemptuous" than "disprespectful". More deeply, Reddit simply isn't very good at fostering conversations . It does have depth, and there are communities whic…

Yes, Tildes is great, it is also a non-profit. The creator of Tildes, Deimos, also used to work at reddit and modded some of the better subreddits. As an aside, the site is currently down for some updates for the first time in at least two years. Virtually 100% uptime, incredible.

He wrote Automoderator, SubredditSimulator, and worked on Gold too.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by oblio »

ItsMonkk wrote: post #264
wting wrote: post #207

I was the EM for Reddit's Growth team around this time. I am responsible for / contributed to a few features like the current signup flow, AMP pages, push notifications, email digests, app download interstitials, etc. There was a new product lead who joined with many good ideas, but some of them were dark patterns that I heavily protested. After a few months of this, it was obvious that I was going to be reigned in o…

There's a sucker born every minute. When I was 10 I bought Pokemon cards, which looking back on, was a huge waste of money, but at least it wasn't all that much money in the end. I was a newbie to the scene, and I got taken advantage of. Lesson learned. 10 years later when phones were just coming into everyone's pockets, a whole new wave of gamers emerged. Game companies could either develop for the previous wave, by…

Most newbies want to progress just enough to not be completely frustrated by the experience and no further.

In your terms, a huge chunk of the population want to be suckers for life.

Plus not everyone is competitive and wants to excel at a game.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by isugimpy »

BusTrainBus wrote: post #74

Reddit is an absolutely grotesque website, both for these UI issues and the toxic hate it engenders on all the subreddits. It’s magnitudes worse than any other social network. I have a genuine question: do people openly say they work for this company or is it workplace where people have to hide that they are part of it?

I openly admit to working at Reddit. In fact, I got hired after reading a post in the monthly hiring thread here on HN.

Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design

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Post by efreak »

thelazyoxymoron wrote: post #493
tmh88j wrote: post #446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried appollo a while back and I was not a fan. My biggest gripe with the UI of appolo and post-redesigned reddit is that it feels like instagram or a facebook. I don't like endlessly scrolling through pictures and auto-playing videos since most of them are of no interest to me. If I want to view a picture/video I'll click on it. It clutters up the page with content I don't care about. Mobile browsing (for me at le…

This was exactly my problem as well, and after trying a bunch of mobile apps, I've finally settled on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.... . The UI is compact and keeps me from going insane while browsing.

For Android, I actually prefer RedReader with ImgurViewer as an external image viewer. Both are open source apps

RedReader: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...

ImgurViewer: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ensoft.imgurviewer and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ensoft.img...

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