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Oh boy, I'm planning to write something around Reddit testing for mobile app and web app. I'm sick and tired of their testing and horrible dark UX pattern.

* Screen take over to force push notifications so I can view my own notification!!!!!! (Mobile)

* Creating new tabs when tapping on threads (Web)

* Removing notification alert from homepage (Mobile web)

If you want a lesson in dark UX patterns and poor testing...just visit Reddit

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Reddit's new UI is a complete trash fire and has reliably been so since day 1. As a developer myself it is very hard for me to call others incompetent because I can definitely feel the pain of serving millions of daily users and working under some idiot product managers especially for a social media app... but even so I have no qualms about calling the reddit dev team as a whole utterly incompetent after botching their web AND android front ends for almost a decade and making mistake after user hostile mistake and not even making the app stable in the process. Reddit good down almost weekly in some form or another and seeing the "you bwoke weddit sowwy" page has been consistent

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