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Digg was flooded with College Humor posts and XKCD comics before the redesign. For some reason, people think the redesign was the reason why people left.
Genuine question: What's wrong with XKCD comics?
There's 3 new comics per week. It's not like you can sustain a whole website on that.
When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.
When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.
I don't understand why they're doing this: 1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading). 2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple post…
I can't tell you the number of times I thought I was having a meaningful conversation only to find out, after asking, that the user was a kid.
New Reddit interface is slow as hell for something as simple as text/images discussion board. Compare it with the speed of Hacker News, for example. They are completely incompetent.
Obligatory cred: first used reddit in...2006? Used it to chat with friends around the world on subjects of mutual interest. It was fun, of course. I've mainly lurked since then.
Now? If one sifts through the records there is great info in there, but most subs I want to enjoy are overrun with, how to say, self-congratulatory amateurs. It's neither useful nor entertaining.
Even joke subs feel tired and decadent.
Meanwhile, mob rule downvoting pervades.
It is broken.
Good riddance.
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I deleted an unofficial Reddit app from my phone, since I found I was wasting too much time on it. I figured for the occasions I wanted access to reddit (mostly from searching for topics on Google), I’d just use the web version. But the web UI, combined with Google AMP, made it unusable. I’ve gone back to the app but with iOS screen time restrictions.
Apollo for Reddit is a great app made by a solo dev! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575 That is until they become even more greedy and ban third party apps. Probably by the end of next year. The reasons will be 'privacy of users' and 'letting users access reddit via a unified interface'. Or some bs like that
When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.
I don't understand why they're doing this: 1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading). 2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple post…
I hate to be seen this nakedly aggro, but reddit is broken ruins. Obligatory cred: first used reddit in...2006? Used it to chat with friends around the world on subjects of mutual interest. It was fun, of course. I've mainly lurked since then. Now? If one sifts through the records there is great info in there, but most subs I want to enjoy are overrun with, how to say, self-congratulatory amateurs. It's neither usefu…
Is this a good thing? Of all social media, Reddit seems to me like it has the most potential to actually do something positive for society. They’ve seriously been dropping the ball with execution in the past several years but I don’t know that we’d be better off with them disappearing without a better alternative.
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I don't understand why they're doing this: 1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading). 2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple post…
They are catering to children, literally. I've been using the site for a few years and have noticed more often than not when a set of comments seems especially naive its because I've been talking to teenager. I can't tell you the number of times I thought I was having a meaningful conversation only to find out, after asking, that the user was a kid.
They have also made many of the subreddits not viewable via a mobile browser pushing you to the app, it seems though the blocks go in and out of effect. At some point metrics of a sites app downloads don't mean anything when they make their primary site unusable.
I've found you can google the subreddits, and they will show you these subreddits. As long as your referrer is still Google, it seems to be fine.