While I'm still complaining:
"You now need an email to sign up..." You don't, you can just click 'next' without entering one.
"The mobile experience was improved" It wasn't. It's designed to be so frustrating you just download the app.
This is an absolute joke yeah. The page even has a button overlay "This looks better in the app" which I would take as an insult if I was their web dev but each to their own.
I would just use another website but I can't find one that has a similar mixture of cat gifs, old memes, far left propaganda, and occasional science news.
The way that it only does that with that button really makes it hard for me to believe it's not intentional
You can't use an ad blocker (easily) in an app, so they get to show you ads.
If you decide to buy reddit gold (or whatever they're calling it now), then they get the money from that instead.
If you're a web dev working on the Reddit redesign I assume you're long past caring or any form of shame.
Out of spite I downloaded 'a' free reddit client and bought the full version. The constant stream of useless notifications of the official app is just disgusting.
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I had the mobile app installed for a few months and I thought it was pretty good. I uninstalled it because I was using it to kill time on my phone, and it was becoming habitual (nothing going on? open reddit app). My solution to those types of things is to cut the cord, and I don't ever miss them.
I would call it an upside actually, that I don't even want to browse the site on my phone.
Many newer features are half-implemented or not implemented at all.
Some features which previously worked are broken.
The setting for preference of the old.reddit interface is not stable, and gets reset sometimes.
Even when the setting is preserved, there are nag messages to switch to the new one and/or the app.
Also, I think just calling it "old." feels a bit condescending and patronizing to the user. It certainly communicates that its days are numbered, so why would I want to invest any more of my time into it?
b) I doubt that the extension you reference solves most of the issues I mentioned, in particular the broken features.
c) I think beginning your advice with the word "Just" makes it sound condescending and dismissive.
Please consider reading this article: http://archive.is/J2ODQ
Yes, I am quite frustrated with frequently being told that I'm using the wrong browser or have it improperly configured.
Examples?
>Also, I think just calling it "old." feels a bit condescending and patronizing to the user. It certainly communicates that its days are numbered, so why would I want to invest any more of my time into it?
I guess they could call it "classic", but that'd be longer to type in the address bar.
Image galleries.
Mod mail, rules list, and other mod features.
A few others I can't remember and don't care enough to go digging for.
Generally speaking, in the last couple of years, the more I use reddit, the less I want to use it. I've been pretty involved in it for 10+ years and used to love it. Reddit used to be a pretty important part of my life. It took a long time to de-train me from coming back to it, but they've done it. I hardly ever open it anymore, and I've routed www.reddit.com to localhost so that I wouldn't end up on the new design by accident. I've only done that for less than a dozen addresses.
seems to work fine with RES
> Image galleries.
I don't have any trouble with these.
> Mod mail, rules list, and other mod features.
I don't do any moderation on reddit, so I'll take your word for it here.
The biggest, frequent pain point I have with using reddit is their v.reddit.com videos. That is a garbage experience, but from what I understand, that experience is across old and new.
I would have said in the past that users like me who are resistant to introducing engagement mechanics/monetisation are why they're valued less than the likes of Twitter but recent stats I saw indicated old Reddit was like 15% of desktop users and the official app also had the majority of mobile users so looks like their plan to wait our the dilution of the long term user base is working so maybe that all changes in a few years.
The unbundling suggestions seem like it'd hurt the long tail, a lot of the value that Reddit has to me is the smaller specialised communities which are able to get users because people can eventually get introduced to smaller subreddits from larger subreddits. Cut off that traffic growth path and many of these communities have a much reduced reason to set up on Reddit Vs elsewhere.
The suggestions to move the focus from subreddits to users - it's something Reddit are subtly trying with redesigned profiles and more emphasis on people posting to profiles or following them, but to me it seems counter productive to what I like about Reddit. A subreddit can be kept on topic in a way a user cannot, and actually in many social circles there are pressures on people to make their views known on e.g. politics in twitter, where staying on whatever topic is actually discouraged
The farther they drift away from admitting that, the more tenuous their value proposition is going to be.
I have to believe that's the vast majority of the active userbase, and that Reddit just gets a lot of one off visits from Google search referrals.
I cannot imagine a world where I would allow reddit to send me any push notifications ever.
Minimalistic, but clear UI. Subreddits open nearly instantly. Discussion threads open instantly. Comments arranged by upvotes, not by Reddit's opaque scoring algorithm. No visual clutter. Minimal battery usage.
Having an ad-free, clean, sensible UI isn't aligned with their current vision.
If I were that subreddit I'd have my own website with blackjack[] and ... the whole share of the ad revenue. And use the money to promote History rather than just to make Conde, or whoever's, shareholders more wealthy.
* but not actually blackjack, gambling advertising is awful.
What are you referring to here?
The worst one I ever saw said something like "Use the app to avoid tracking"
Like how fucking retarded are you? How is the tracking not 10000 times worse on the app, you lying assholes!?
This smells like the brilliant plan of endless A/B testing that a unicorn did once, wrote about it on their company blog once it was used up, then everyone else followed.
These are all growth 'levers' which on paper can drastically improve metrics which is what is needed to get those crazy valuations and huge funding rounds. In reality they make the experience poor for the user, however, outside of the tech world most people are not bothered by these tricks.
I hate the new layout. I find the video player abysmal and I loathe the mobile experience.
Some of the content is still very good, but I feel like it's lessening as the anti-user hostility intensifies. It's a damn shame.