Reddit @lemmy.world kamenLady. @lemmy.world 1y ago

Asshole design

I must admit, i was somehow curious, but no!

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At least the recap was good for some funny self-owns:
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Give us your data

Go fuck yourself
- It stopped working for me with a vpn. They are really pushing people away at this point.
  
  I guess it’s an issue is profitability. I think long term, these companies can’t survive. It really depends on a community support.
I use old Reddit and a third party app, so my recap made no sense

I liked that
- What app is that? Are any of them still working?
  
  Iirc Joe for Reddit was one of the few third party apps, that were able to continue using the api for free ( or almost? ).
  
  I don't remember what the conditions were though, there was some catch, something they had to feature in their apps in order to get the free api access.
  
  A few of mine continued to work as normal, and I'm not sure why
Why are you still using reddit?
- Why not?
  
  (Also look at the community you are replying in... What use is there on quesrioning why people use reddit on the c/reddit, it's like when people say "why are you using 4chan" on r/4chan lol)
  
  To be fair, both sites are pretty much gaping shit holes at this point.
- I go to Reddit for literally one thing every week- a schedule I won't see anywhere else. I just look at the schedule and leave. But I still need Reddit to see that schedule.
- I'm not really using it like before, i jump there sometimes from search results and am logged in automatically...
  
  I haven't deleted my account yet, because idk, there are some things I'd like to be able to look up.
Reddit mobile browser is THE definition of asshole design
- All of reddit's newer design is the definition of asshole design. Once old.reddit.com is killed off the site will be as unusable as X or TikTok is on web for logged out users.
  
  I'm kinda surprised they didn't already kill old.reddit just like they killed 3rd party apps.
Deleting all my posts and then my account was the best thing I've done in ages
- I am actually really tempted now to do so.
  
  Dew it!
- Same
Or the:

open in app

continue in browser

Every. Fifteen. Minutes.
- just not visitinf reddit solved the issue for me
  
  I still visit niche communities on Reddit that have almost zero activity here. Trying to geow them, but it's not taking off.
Blocking modal windows are a sin and make me less likely to interact with a site. Imgur is also guilty. No, I don't want to participate in your community meme event when I'm just trying to look at an image on the app that is clogging up my RAM because you think it does something important and interesting enough to warrant deeplinking it in an electron wrapper.

Also, while I'm here, fuck modal windows with no X to close button which forces you to read the buttons to figure out which one is the "fuck off" button and not the "take all my money" button.
- Hey, remember the days of pop-up windows where the X button was labelled "Open in background" if you hovered over it. At least there's been some progress. \s
- Or the X has the same color as the background, making it hard to see at all and so small, it's almost unusable on Mobile.
  
  These are all intentional, to make it hard for you. I build websites for a living and clients actually ask for designs that "keep" the user on the site. Since i have no say in things other than the area that affects my work, i sometimes hate my job and have no other way than just do my job.
  
  "Oh, the cancel button is too big. Make it smaller or better yet, don't make it a button, just a small text link, somewhere at the bottom, with font-size: 9 px .... And remove the underline..."
Please get the app

Please
The only way to use Reddit on mobile is to use old Reddit. You have to zoom in to tap on things, but holy hell it's still so much better than the mobile version of the website.
- It's wild to me that Reddit never developed a reasonably functional mobile version of their site. They bought out a few designs, and relied on 3rd party apps for a while, and now they're doing their utmost to force everyone to use the garbage pile that is their current design. I just don't see how it proved such an impossible task for them.
  
  I get the sense that tying their shoelaces is an impossible task for them. That the site is online and running is a damned miracle.
- Eh, the worse the experience is, the less I want to use Reddit, which is only good if you ask me.
One of the advantages of being on old reddit like a hopeless geezer is not getting to see that shit.
2023 isn’t over?
Doesn't desktop mode in a mobile browser get around this?
Meh, I opened Reddit just to lurk on the only subreddit I would post on. Recap for that community reminded me it was all one big circle jerk… but now with more advertisements.
Works if you view as desktop
Infinity for reddit was working for me but today I installed android 14 and its now asking to pay for subscription. I am now officially of Lemmy. No more reddit for me.
My recap would show all of my accounts go inert right around the time I jumped over to lemmy (circa beans, Titan implosion).
I just deleted my reddit account. There's no going back now.
reddit

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