1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around
2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren't sure which button will just take you to the damn website
I don't mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me
On my phone I use reddit is fun. I have no issues at all with reddit atm in terms of them fucking with my experience.
Legacy mode will be phased out as soon as it has served their purpose of smoothing over the transition.
Or, it will be allowed to die of neglect, slowly becoming less and less compatible with the site until fully unusable.
I miss old reddit, nothing else really fills the niche in a unified way.
Reddit and Facebook both have some hold for me because of niche communities that they both let me aggregate/monitor/interact with easily, without going to a myriad of websites. I really don’t want to have to do that - in some cases, I’m not even sure I can find comparable replacements.
It is interesting because it's related to what I do but different enough to be fascinating.
Random aside: I've long been very down on web tech, but those 3 have sort of reinvigorated my interest in web stuff.
Not Mozilla's fault
Folk would probably move over to something like voat.co
There will be other places for you to migrate to, as there have been for decades, if not an entire generation.
It's already frustrating to view v.reddit content in 3rd party apps.
I use Boost for Reddit (Android) and the old reddit style, and RES in my browser. I see why they are going towards the Instagram style route - people generally like what they are accustomed to; and I guess more people use Instagram than Reddit.
The reddit community is great, but the company seems to not care about their users at all.
Isn't there a ton of data that most people don't even use many apps anymore? Or they install them once and then uninstall them or ignore them?
I hope we can move towards a web that stays in the web browser. Apps are becoming really annoying, especially for interactions you only have intermittently (I'm not a daily reddit user, but I go there every now and then, or it pops up on search).
That doesn't mean the app can't exfiltrate data (presumably data useful to advertisers) in the background.
The mobile app is a program that works for the developer.
The end result of browsers becoming more adtech-hostile and user-friendly is that more companies turn to mobile apps.
Apple decides to start notifying on cookies or make fingerprinting harder? Poof. There goes a chunk of your ad value per user.
And who knows what any given browser vendor will do tomorrow?
Some would say "So it's like the 90s, where everyone was continually adapting as web specs were negotiated." The difference is that now there are billion+ dollar businesses directly tied to that ad revenue.
The latest Firefox release has a built in list of tracker domains to block and next release blocks auto playing video.
From a user perspective, now is probably the best time ever to be using the web.
What is "several years"? This has definitely existed, say, five years ago. Not at this scale, of course, but it's not a recent invention by a long shot.
Dark patterns are defined by trying to willfully get you to do something that's counter to your own intent.
As for Clippy, it's not hard to design a straightforward auto-correction feature, which detects what you typed and suggests a useful addition or replacement. Google, Apple, etc., all have their own designs that work perfectly well. I have trouble seeing an animated 3D cartoon as anything other than "trying to willfully get me to do something counter to my own intent". That's a classic way to manipulate people.