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Comment by testybesty2 | Hacker News Reader

This is insane.

I've been using old.reddit.com (via DuckDuckGos !sro bang) for a while now, but this is so much better.

It's incredible how much better/faster/easier to use this is than the standard mobile site. What are modern web devs smoking?

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Nothing. The execs just want engagement at all costs. The mobile site is basically useless and will spam you constantly to try and get you into the app. For a little while I was seeing them Gaussian blur pages and then tell me "it looks better in the app". They seemed to have walked back that maddness at least.

It's so easy to blame management for these kind of things but the day to day designers have to take some responsibility too. New reddit is dreadful, literally unusable. You're telling me all that is the fault of "managers" and the people constructing the code are blameless? There could be no other way to solve the problem management set them? This "don't blame me, I'm just doing what I've been told to do" attitude stinks and the faster these passenger devs get replaced with AI the better

> This "don't blame me, I'm just doing what I've been told to do" attitude stinks and the faster these passenger devs get replaced with AI the better

Uh...what? I don't think you thought this through.

How do you think that replacing devs that just do what they're told with AI that's going to just do what its told is going to improve things?

Ironically, the link to the app isn't even working properly, as it just opens app store. I have the app, but it's just unusable since links simply won't open there.

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