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Comment by anuila | Hacker News Reader

The only way they should reimagine their workforce is to fire them all. The website has become embarrassing, with videos loading ridiculously slow or without audio. They’re basically helping me off of the addiction to Reddit, which actually isn’t such a bad thing.

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I don't think you're being hyperbolic, the ruinously bad updates broke my addiction to reddit too. The charitable take is that they made it deliberately shit to drive adoption of their official app. If it's not that, then they must be hilariously incompetent.

I cannot view new messages on mobile without putting Chrome in Desktop Mode. In mobile view it always shows me the same old moderator message instead of new ones.

Since it's been like that for so long, I have to assume it's deliberate. Some executive at Reddit decided they were going to try to break things to force people into the app.

The mobile website has deliberate unnecessary delays in order to force you onto the mobile app. Are reddit frontend engineers actually proud of this behavior?

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. A little harsh and hyperbolic , sure, but their website has become an unusable joke in recent years.

Using an article entirely as an excuse to soapbox about something that's barely related should always be downvoted. Even if you agree with it, that doesn't make it a relevant (or good) comment.

> The website has become embarrassing, with videos loading ridiculously slow or without audio.

Considering how Orwellian they are with content curation and moderation, particularly with anything that has even a whiff of politics, I see that as a good thing.

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