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Comment by mkl95 | Hacker News Reader

I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.

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old.reddit.com until they finally kill it off, then I'll just stop going.

i.reddit.com actually works quite well on mobile, but I think this has even more risk of being shut down at a moment's notice so try not to mention it too much.

there's also ns.reddit.com that appears to be the same as old.reddit.com

That's basically an invalid locale prefix. Since ns is an invalid locale code or has no translations, it uses the default english. Reddit also used np.reddit.com which stood for non-participation. Basically there was subreddit CSS that disabled the voting buttons and comment dialog.

I often wonder about the dumpster fire that is the web version of Reddit. Normally I assume incompetence over malice, but - they had a perfectly decent working link aggregator site over a decade ago, and more than sufficent resources and budget to maintain that site and make small improvements to the UX and design over time. So the only conclusion is that this is a planned, prolonged and deliberate act of self-sabotage and vandalism.

The mobile app is terrible too. Even many of the 3rd party apps are not very good, especially on iOS. There are some good ones for Android like Boost and Relay, which I wish I could get on iOS.

It is an embarrassingly bad mobile app and web UI for one of the most popular sites in the world that really grew up natively on the modern web.

I think they are trying to facebookifying (for the lack of better word) their interface. The trade off here is that user engagement lost due to bulky js is covered by the increase in user engagement due to flashy web features. user engagement is corporate double speak for user addiction.

Indeed. It sucks so much I built my own :)

Also build a time machine and go back to 2005 so that you get the network effect and someone will actually use your site.

They built a frontend, not a clone

The network effect in 2005 was 5 people including a link on their site.

Could you share a link?

Yes but it's not complete in any way. You can't login, you can't comment, post or save your subreddits.

You can only see subreddits and comments.

But it is my daily driver.

It's at https://reddit.pimenta.co

Do you think they are going to limit their api like Twitter?

You're good until they shut down their API I guess...

Are you the apollo guy?

That would be iamthatis. Both on Reddit and on here apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamthatis

I believe thingiverse is worse

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