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Reddit in 2016
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-announces-big-changes-2016-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-announces-big-chan..., which points to this.
- kendallpark 11y ago> Our new Android app is going into beta today, and our new iOS app should follow it out soon. It's amazing how long Reddit existed before rolling out a mobile app. Now I'll finally have something other than Facebook to check compulsively on my phone.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoWhy you need an app?
- JTon 11y agoJust now? There's a bunch of excellent 3rd party Reddit apps on many mobile platforms. Even BB10 and WP have solid Reddit clients. I don't think you were trying very hard :P
- noxToken 11y agoA mobile app that isn't third party. If something happens with your data or your account through a third party app, Reddit isn't responsible. This hasn't been an issue with Reddit, but it's a risk the end-user accepts when the app isn't "official".
- jimmaswell 11y agoTheir site works fine on mobile, either the desktop version or .compact (you can add .compact to the end of a reddit url to see it). I never really liked the normal mobile version though.
- kec 11y agoAlienBlue was the de facto reddit app for years on iOS, to the point that reddit actually bought it / accqi-hired the dev for it a year or so ago. Unfortunately it's been pretty stagnant since it was acquired, very few bug fixes and afaik no feature enhancements.
- sithadmin 11y ago>it's been pretty stagnant since it was acquired, very few bug fixes and afaik no feature enhancements It's become noticeably buggier since the acquisition, in my opinion.
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- JimDabell 11y ago> It's amazing how long Reddit existed before rolling out a mobile app. This isn't their first mobile application, it's their new one. The original one is six years old: https://github.com/reddit/iReddit https://github.com/reddit/iReddit
- 6stringmerc 11y agoWhile I can understand the sentiment that spam and abuse threaten our communities I can't help but think - based on outside observations - that some of the biggest threat to the Reddit communities are people within Reddit communities. Though admirable and well-meaning, it's a flawed model at the core, at least this is what I've come to believe. In the most recent flare-ups, the "call is coming from inside the house!" seemed to really apply. Granted I'm not proposing some kind of methodology or overhaul to fix this conundrum, though it's certainly an interesting topic.
- boxy310 11y agoWhat specifically leads you to conclude it's a "flawed model"? Is it the problem of private ownership of a semipublic community, through individual accounts "owning" a subreddit?
- 6stringmerc 11y agoAs a model, user generated / sourced content blended with user sourced moderation under a private enterprise with "standards and expectations" will always have issues regarding the (occasional) desires of users to share and embrace things which are not welcome by the private enterprise. That's kind of the flaw in the model. The 'image' of community and ownership breaks down when there's a dispute, most frequently seen with respect to rules.
- hellbanner 11y agoEveryone can upvote. Contrast this to HN where you need a comment karma score before you can start upvoting.. it's effectively a grandfathering network vs a democracy where new accounts cost 5 seconds with no email verification.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoYa know, I'm on reddit daily, and I NEVER see any of these flare-ups. I just kind of hang out on the nerdy subs I guess.
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- lumberjack 11y agoReddit is a great platform to disguise sponsored content as organic. If you are really good the users won't even notice. I wonder whether they have started monetizing that yet. There is clearly a lot of it on Reddit. It's just not clear whether it is with the help of Reddit or despite of them.
- maxerickson 11y agoYou don't even have to be particularly good. I made a remark that Carrie Fisher probably wasn't organically following @Starwars on Twitter on a Sunday afternoon and got lots of downvotes and several people ranting about how cynical it was to question the thing that got posted to reddit. They want to enjoy the manufactured whimsy, not question it.
- lawpoop 11y agoCan you describe this sponsored/organic content dichotomy? To get noticed, you have to have upvotes. If you have upvotes, that means that users appreciated the content. If, say, a company or person is promoting themselves and the community upvotes it, I don't see any problem with it. That's how it's supposed to work. But I don't think that's what you mean by 'disguise'. I would guess rather that you mean that some entity is paying the reddit the company to create artificial upvotes (i.e. not originating from users) and maybe even paid commenters. I personally would be surprised if there were a lot of this clearly happening (there's a number of people on reddit that make a 'career' out of debunking stories, identifying brigades, etc). Can you point to some popular posts presently on reddit that are examples of it?
- fweespeech 11y ago> Can you point to some popular posts presently on reddit that are examples of it? http://www.redditsecrets.com/buy-reddit-accounts http://www.redditsecrets.com/buy-reddit-accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=725562.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=725562.0 https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/32rr56/do_people_actually_sell_reddit_accounts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/32rr56/do_peo... You can build a small voting ring for a few hundred dollars to boost posts. The problem is all of Reddit's countermeasures to reduce spam made it hard to tell how successful these things are. However, the fact people are still buying in 2016, implies at least some people succeed at it. > Can you describe this sponsored/organic content dichotomy? Really, only Reddit can say how bad this problem is but my guess its non-negligible and cutting into their monetization via native ads as its basically an end run around paying Reddit.
- AndrewUnmuted 11y agoI found this rather disturbing: > "Recently we built an A/B testing system, which allows us to test changes to individual features scientifically, and we are excited to put it through its paces. " Does this mean that Reddit made it all the way to 2016 without an A/B testing tool?!
- Strom 11y agoAutomated A/B testing isn't super important. Especially for sites like reddit which have been basically the same since launch. You can still get feedback from users, and I would argue this is more important than automatically detecting which button has a 2% higher CTR.
- Houshalter 11y agoI was really upset when they massively increased the font size from normal. It looks terrible and everything takes up so much more space. I think it was probably done from manual A/B tests showing the larger font had some impact on how long people stay on the site or something, which doesn't necessarily mean anything.
- fourstar 11y agoReddit is the worst. I created a sub that ended up becoming a default (/r/lifeprotips) and ended up getting banned when I tried to promote a site that I built (which was my original intention with the idea). They banned me because I had adsense on the site (funny because Imgur was/has been the golden child for reddit and they've had advertising for quite a while). I sent them a DMCA to remove the logo that I had commissioned from someone from Dribbble (for my site, but ended up using it as the header there). No response. Reddit is run by a bunch of leeches who rely on moderators to create content and never reward them.
- hire_charts 11y agoIs lifeprotips.com the site you were trying to promote? I see that the banners are really similar.
- fourstar 11y agoCorrect.
- pknopf 11y agoI'm working on a site: https://skimur.com https://skimur.com I plan on making like Twitter, but "followers" "vote" for "tweets" so that the collective community sees the best content. Reddit isn't really meant for personal usage. Subs are typically topic related there.
- Karunamon 11y agoReddit's a neat idea, but I had to abandon it. Had just hit five years of daily participation on the site, too. If we look past all the controversy and all the other reasons most people point at the site as a negative, it boils down to one thing in my mind: Base cynicism. There's cynicism when someone else reposts something. There's cynicism over imaginary internet points. There's cynicism by, from, and to the moderators and site owners. There's cynicism every time something with a brand name gets mentioned (zOMG it's an ad!) There's cynicism among communities. It just goes on and on and on. Never-ending negativity. Everyone always assuming the worst of the other person (rather than trying to have an understanding discussion) and taking snarky potshots at them (and then hiding their comments by -1's in a fit of pique, rather than any kind of thoughtful analysis of quality). I'm quite happier (and not a little bit more productive) not participating anymore. Reddit is, IMO, the world's greatest concentration of negative, irreverent, straight-up dickhead behavior in one convenient place. (feh, word filter plugin went a little crazy there, sorry for the unreadable comment earlier)
- Zikes 11y agoOne thing that I just can't wrap my head around is the "no participation" brigading rules. The site literally exists to share content for others to discover and discuss, but if you share anything remotely meta you get accused of brigading and are banned/shadowbanned.
- Karunamon 11y agoThe site would be better off with an outright ban on meta content. Aside from one or two outliers like DepthHub, most instances of someone on reddit linking to something on reddit are a variation on "Hey, look at this stupid thing this person did, let's all point and laugh at how stupid they are".
- npizzolato 11y ago/r/bestof would disagree with you.
- softwaredev__ 11y agoSome designers I know always bash Reddit for having an "ugly" design, but out of all the link aggregators out there, the links on Reddit "pop" out at me. I can comprehend the whole page by just glancing. Other link aggregators like inbound.org or growth hackers are definitely prettier, but I have to focus and slow down to understand all the submissions.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoThey need to work on their mobile web design. This [1] is not a pleasant experience in 2016. [1] http://m.imgur.com/StVB2Uu http://m.imgur.com/StVB2Uu
- Mizza 11y agoThey actually did this last year, check out https://m.reddit.com/ https://m.reddit.com/
- pantalaimon 11y agoI much prefer https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ though
- x1024 11y agoYeah, but they used "React.js, because we're cool, please think we're cool". Which is different from just "react.js". Just look at how incompetently the site was redesigned: https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile/issues/247 https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile/issues/247 45 seconds load time... There's also the tiny buttons(obviously not mobile-first, even if it is a mobile-only redesign). And of course, the poster child of "we are doing complex JS stuff, but still think that JS is for kids, so we didn't bother learning how to actually do it". I'm talking about the infamous "We built a single-page-app, but it doesn't always work right, and the back button is kind of broken, and it sometimes treats scrolling over a thing as clicking on that thing".
- donatj 11y agoI've more or less given up on Reddit due to the overzealous moderators. Many huge events are censored from /r/worldnews because the mods seemingly found them not interesting or too hot topic. Many perfectly valid posts are removed by mods, there was recently linked a version of the homepage based on votes alone and something like a third of the posts were deleted. I would much much prefer something more organic where what the people declared good was shown, and that power largely stripped from the mods/admins.