Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts
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It seems like every year that website just gets worse and worse.
Not sure why people are complaining about the new one so much, but it's definitely better accessibility-wise.
The left and right margins are gigantic. Every headline takes about twice as much space, so it takes longer to read the same amount of headlines and pick out anything worth reading.
Maybe it makes sense on a newer phone, or fullscreened on a desktop. I usually run Reddit at 1000x1000 on a desktop, so it looks like crap.
On top of this, despite obviously being designed for it, the mobile experience is borderline unusable and still obviously trying to push you towards the app. If I want to read a comment thread on new reddit, half of the comments will be hidden behind "x more replies" or "continue this thread". When I click that link, it might scroll me to a random ass article suggestion rather than the actual comment. Then, when I click back, it will scroll me to the top again, and it will reload all of the comments. Or, alternatively, it'll beg me to make an account and not even let me view the comments.
Yuck.
You can also append ".compact" to the end of a normal Reddit URL.
I think Reddit's UX anti-patterns need to be taught alongside the Digg v4 follies as ways to ruin a website.
But yup, I wholly agree with your point. The redesign feels like a mix of product managers trying to get promoted + boosting "engagement" numbers at the expense of all else.
Or perhaps we are the odd ones out - I'm sure there's been a huge growth in new users Reddit since the redesign and I doubt that new users are hankering for a different experience now that they're used to it.
I don't think there's any less demand for long form text content on the web. It's growth just isn't ever going to eclipse the snack sized content.
In the case of Reddit, there's still plenty of long form text links and discussions in the comments. The current UX doesn't make that as prominent by default but it's there. The Reddit snackers make more money because they see way more ads. As long as there's an affordance for long form text content Reddit has utility for me.
If they go full TweetBook and kill the likes of i/old Reddit then I'm out. I guess I'll try to get a lobste.rs invite or something.
FYI there's a layout selector at the top that can make it look like the old layout. The "insta" layout is just the default.
Notes from when it was released two years ago: https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/i-made-fully-acces...
Please use the original title from the article.
And I count at least four in the linked page: slj7, Fastfinge, account_needhelp2020 (seems to be a temp account), RJHand
Even if there was a link just because the app is accessible doesn’t mean Reddit can’t ban it. If the Reddit website isn’t accessible then they have a problem.
But also, I'd bet that this is just FPs from anti-abuse, not some kind of ad blocking conspiracy. Somebody sent a lot of spam using the chat feature, and the fingerprint of that traffic happens to match the fingerprint of this application. And rather than combine both signals derived from the chat message content and from fingerprinting for issuing their bans, they just used the latter.
Accurate headlines would be more like “Reddit bans users after they use an accessibility app” or “Reddit users banned after they use accessibility app.”
There is just no basis for ascribing intent here.
The headline is simply inaccurate. We don’t know whether Reddit banned the users because they were blind and using an accessibility app (extremely unlikely) or because they were using an accessibility app with extra-API features that may have inadvertently violated some policy or that may have taken actions that resembled those of a banned app or a spam app.
I use multiple accounts on Reddit; one for posts and comments I want associated with my name, one for my more radical political views, and one for general shitposts. Reddit happily supports multiple accounts and RES even makes it trivial to switch between them. While it is possible that nobody needs multiple accounts, they can be useful.
Sorry. What?
I can think of many valid reasons.
How about simply wanting to keep different aspects of your public persons separate?
Just off the top of my head a single use case: a reddit account for posts I make for myself, vs. those I make on behalf of my employer (or more specifically in my case, my wife's business).
Then there are bot accounts, users who want to keep their interests and hobbies distinct. Users who have a income based off of activity on social media (and not just sex-workers, but also indie game designers, streamers, social media management folks, etc, etc, etc).
You might not think that you want to keep the different "personas" that you have separate on social media, but most people do, and I say this as a person who uses a single username and profile on most social media sites.
If you are in the business of designing user facing systems I really hope you take some time to learn about how folks use computer systems and user-centric design.
One of the main reasons for doing this is to separate posting by different subject areas. Maybe you're fine with being loose with your personal details on the local subreddit but when you're commenting on a subreddit about being an abuse survivor, you don't want those posts associated with your other account(s). It's fairly common for people on Reddit who get angry about a post to go digging through a person's posting history to find something unrelated to hurt them with or to try to discover the poster's personal identity.
Every regular user that I know of has multiple alts. usually 2-3 yes of varying levels of privacy /appropriateness and a few more throwaways for one time use.
I personally have 3 reddit accounts, and each serves a very specific use