Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I can't access it, I can't share the posts nor will I click on ads. So it's not a clear easy win for them.
...assuming you don't cave and log in anyways.
They seem to banking on that.
Reddit’s disrespectful design
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Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#62Hostile design either makes the user login (a user reddit can monetize) or makes the user to close the site (a user reddit can't monetize, thus no need to waste resources), both scenarios is a win for reddit.
Correct, and as addendum:
> How can this be good for them?
> This is the question that keeps bothering me.
Only thinking of short-term benefits aka typical behavior of publicly owned companies and VC.
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#63I'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…
It's atrocious that their main interface is like this, but have you tried i.reddit.com?
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#64The most disrespectful pattern I encounter regularly on reddit is that it forgets that I want the nicer, more compact interface. There will come a day when they remove it entirely, clearly, and that will be the end of my reddit usage, more or less.
Sounds more like you have cookies being cleaned.
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#65I find myself using `old.reddit.com` more than is needed. Reddit sometimes requires Javascript to read a post properly, and I hate that.
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one of the things I suggest. Copy Patreon. They've shown that users are willing to pay for "user generated content"
Isn't that basically Medium?
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> Reddit has 10x the traffic because it's free.
Reddit acquired more traffic because it's free, true. But now, they aren't looking to acquire more traffic. They're looking for more revenue.
One way to get that revenue is to allow already existing content creators to charge for a part of the content.
I think that would not only encourage better content but would bring in other users and generate good revenue.
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#67I'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…
It's atrocious that their main interface is like this, but have you tried i.reddit.com?
Not grandparent commenter, but I don’t. I switched to the logged out, default experience recently. It’s so user hostile it’s been pretty effective at curbing my Reddit addiction and making me waste less time on that site.
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#68Nail on the head about marketplace feature. Reddit doesn’t want to build hard products, they want to build easy dark features which aims for more profiling and resultant ad dollars.
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#69Hostile design either makes the user login (a user reddit can monetize) or makes the user to close the site (a user reddit can't monetize, thus no need to waste resources), both scenarios is a win for reddit.
Third scenario: People keep using it in anger until something better shows up, and by that time there will be enough unhappy people to spark a growing community in the New Place.
Big Tech has Reddit's back: they just ban new platforms for being insufficiently censorious (or at least, not censoring non-Leftists).
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#70The most disrespectful pattern I encounter regularly on reddit is that it forgets that I want the nicer, more compact interface. There will come a day when they remove it entirely, clearly, and that will be the end of my reddit usage, more or less.
How does it keep forgetting? I just change that in settings and it’s never forgotten or reverted for me.
It always forgets for me even when I’m logged in