The Apollo app is what official Reddit should be like right now.
Or Reddit Sync.
Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
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Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#72Sadly, 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…
There's not even any content to be obscured if JS is disabled, as I tend to do on phones to minimise data usage.
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#73The peasants were getting too uppity with their free speech and free exchange of ideas and need to be smacked back down into the mud again.
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#74Sadly, 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…
On Android, use the "Reddit if fun" application - classic Reddit, fit for mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....
No.
No.
No fucking apps.
It's not happening.
Stop asking.
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#75I had no idea there was "discussion subreddits" on reddit. I always thought it was a site for hoarding karma by posting memes and puns.
That does seem to be the owners' plan going forward.
The type of content that Reddit's design encourages most would be meme-blogging in the style of r/me_IRL
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#76Earlier 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/
Materialistic is nice. The only feature I miss with it would be a custom filter. If I could hide automatically stories based on keywords (like "Facebook"), that would be great.
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#77Mobile 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…
And yet so few of the designers consider dark/black colour themes, which are not only more easier on the eyes, but also notably save the battery.
Easier on the eyes surely, but I understood it that dark themes only save battery for OLED/AMOLED screens. For LCD/TN dark themes use slightly more. I am not an Electrical Engineer though.
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#78Sadly, 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…
Try i.reddit.com. I still use it, and I'm still annoyed to no end when the "modern" mobile website loads instead, with its ~5 second splash screen that loads less information than the former does in goddamn instant.
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#79Sadly, 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…
And after clicking that small hard to see button, get ready for another popup if you want to watch a gif
Re: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
#80Reddit is terrible for discussion anyway. You can't have a discussion when people can "downvote" your post. Nothing of value has been lost here. I say that as someone who used reddit heavily until about a month ago when I kicked the addiction.