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Twitter has way worse UI than Reddit or Amazon. It's flashy and barely functional, as opposed to crude but extremely functional. Whereas reddit pages load insta

by Grue3 10y ago

Twitter has way worse UI than Reddit or Amazon. It's flashy and barely functional, as opposed to crude but extremely functional. Whereas reddit pages load instantly, any Twitter page is a 10 megabytes-sized blob of Javascript that slows your browser to a crawl.

Stratoscope 10y ago
Reddit is working hard to catch up to Twitter. Have you tried their new mobile site? It's the worst user experience I've encountered in quite a while. When I go to any page on the site, I get a blank page with an alien in the middle. Quite some time later, the content actually loads. If I tap a link and then go back, it goes through this all over again - and then it doesn't go back to the same scroll position but some arbitrary place. Finally I found a menu option that let me get the desktop Reddit site. I kept trying Chrome's "Request desktop site" but it didn't work. Turned out I had to use a setting in the Reddit mobile site's own menu for this. The desktop site is a huge improvement, but with major flaws of its own. The font sizing on mobile is fairly ridiculous - huge page titles and minuscule comment/etc. links - but at least the pages load fast and it behaves like a normal website. What in the world are they thinking with this new mobile site? If they only fixed up the font sizing in the desktop site it would be perfectly usable on mobile - and much better than their mobile version.
- ansible 10y ago
  Yeah, I'm not too happy with the new mobile version of Reddit. I still use the compact view [1] on my phone, which works fine for everything except moderation. On my tablet I just use the desktop view. [1] http://reddit.com/.compact http://reddit.com/.compact
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  I really hope those changes Reddit does are because they're evil and want to track us and spy on us with shit ton of JavaScript. The alternative to that is too horrible to consider - that they may have no fucking clue what they're doing, and like everyone else they're just cargo-culting the current web industry bullshit "standard practices".
the_other 10y ago
I find Reddit so utterly unusable that I don't even have an account. Visiting a Reddit page, all I see is confusing tumble of interface: I can't distinguish content from controls, one level of reply from another, useful content is drowned out by "me too" and "snark". The mobile interface uses text sizing that is too small to read on my device (with my eyesight).

by Grue3 10y ago

Stratoscope 10y ago

Reddit is working hard to catch up to Twitter. Have you tried their new mobile site? It's the worst user experience I've encountered in quite a while. When I go to any page on the site, I get a blank page with an alien in the middle. Quite some time later, the content actually loads. If I tap a link and then go back, it goes through this all over again - and then it doesn't go back to the same scroll position but some arbitrary place. Finally I found a menu option that let me get the desktop Reddit site. I kept trying Chrome's "Request desktop site" but it didn't work. Turned out I had to use a setting in the Reddit mobile site's own menu for this. The desktop site is a huge improvement, but with major flaws of its own. The font sizing on mobile is fairly ridiculous - huge page titles and minuscule comment/etc. links - but at least the pages load fast and it behaves like a normal website. What in the world are they thinking with this new mobile site? If they only fixed up the font sizing in the desktop site it would be perfectly usable on mobile - and much better than their mobile version.

ansible 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not too happy with the new mobile version of Reddit. I still use the compact view [1] on my phone, which works fine for everything except moderation. On my tablet I just use the desktop view. [1] http://reddit.com/.compact http://reddit.com/.compact
TeMPOraL 10y ago
I really hope those changes Reddit does are because they're evil and want to track us and spy on us with shit ton of JavaScript. The alternative to that is too horrible to consider - that they may have no fucking clue what they're doing, and like everyone else they're just cargo-culting the current web industry bullshit "standard practices".

the_other 10y ago

I find Reddit so utterly unusable that I don't even have an account. Visiting a Reddit page, all I see is confusing tumble of interface: I can't distinguish content from controls, one level of reply from another, useful content is drowned out by "me too" and "snark". The mobile interface uses text sizing that is too small to read on my device (with my eyesight).