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Why not make AlienBlue the official reddit app? They bought it! This is a very strange course of action. This is one of "Things You Should Never Do" http://w
by wvenable 11y ago
Why not make AlienBlue the official reddit app? They bought it! This is a very strange course of action.
This is one of "Things You Should Never Do"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
- robwilliams 11y agoWell it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.
- joshschreuder 11y agoAB was developed by one person (who is still on the app team) - it's possible AB isn't suited to having a team work on it, or they want to follow new best practices (eg. Swift)
- kennywinker 11y agoMy guess: AlienBlue was developed with power users in mind and this new app was developed with showing people ads in mind. A major re-design gives them the excuse to remove and never re-add many features and tune the app for a different type of user and a different type of interaction.
- robwilliams 11y agoInserting ads into the Alien Blue feed would have been easy. You may be right about the different target user, though.