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By turning their site into this: https://i.imgur.com/TtVAiMN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TtVAiMN.jpg That's what a new visitor to reddit.com would see, as of about
by MoronInAHurry 8y ago
By turning their site into this: https://i.imgur.com/TtVAiMN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TtVAiMN.jpg
That's what a new visitor to reddit.com would see, as of about a month ago.
- mynewtb 8y agoTheir mission is making short-term money to satisfy the venture capitalist investors. Anything else is unimportant.
- codetrotter 8y agoThey’ve been around since 2005, though. 13 years.
- Deimorz 8y agoThey didn't take a significant amount of VC until fairly recently though. $50M in Sept 2014, and then $200M more about a year ago: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit
- EpicEng 8y agoAnd they make no money, recently took on a truckload of VC money, and people want out.
- personlurking 8y agoI just hope they always allow users some way to switch to the old Reddit as an option. I had to uncheck the second box in the beta options, at the bottom of preferences. https://i.imgur.com/xnHdFuE.png https://i.imgur.com/xnHdFuE.png
- iKSv2 8y ago"I just hope they always allow users some way to switch to the old Reddit as an option" Pretty much the only thing why I am still using Reddit via PC in addition of mobile app (third-party)
- colordrops 8y agoIf it's anything like their mobile site, they'll leave the ability to use the old site, but it will grow more and more broken as they fail to maintain it, and eventually become unusable.
- calv 8y agoIt's a bad way but old.reddit.com
- conradfr 8y agoThere's no way they'll keep the old site, and I say that as a user of it. At some point the new site will have new features incompatible with the old and they'll say it uses too much resources to keep it going. Well, Reddit had a (mostly) good run.
- onion2k 8y agoReddit has presumably decided now is the right time to monetize the existing user base rather than continuing to focus on growth. Reddit's lifeblood is recirculating and remixing content. Given the political climate around copyright with things like Article 13 in the EU it's entirely possible Reddit will be very difficult to run in a few years. Now might be the right time to focus on revenue.
- danso 8y agoWhat would bigger growth/userbase/SERP for Reddit look like? That is, while keeping its spartan social network characteristics. Even with the redesign (which I’m not a huge fan of personally) and the attempt to increase visibility of user profiles, Reddit still feels more like Craigslist/USENET than Quora or Facebook.
- lucb1e 8y agoI too would focus on getting money out if the choice is between money and more users, when you're the fourth biggest site in the US and the sixth biggest site worldwide (as of a month ago; if I remember correctly; based on Alexa stats).
- slg 8y agoTheir new design is comically bad at this point. I just loaded up Reddit full-screen on my desktop with a 2560x1440 resolution. I saw 3 posts above the fold in the default non-signed in format. Those 3 posts occupied the center 650px of the screen. There was a column to the right that took up a little over 300px and contained two ads among other site navigation stuff. The other 1600px of horizontal screen real estate was completely empty. I get the idea of mobile first design, but the new design is actively hostile to anyone using a screen larger than a tablet.
- SquareWheel 8y agoThere are three views. Have you tried compact mode?
- slg 8y agoI would never actually use the site like that. However defaults are important and that is the default view for a user who is not signed in. That design is so bad that I almost wonder if it is a dark pattern to get people to sign up/in just so they can save a preference to avoid that view.
- wingerlang 8y agoI agree that half the content being ads is pretty bad, but what makes the expanded view as a default so bad? I don't like it myself but e.g. 9gag is super popular and it uses this style.
- DennisP 8y agoI want to scan the headlines with my eyeballs, not the scroll bar.
- wingerlang 8y agoI can't stand the expanded view, so I'm 100% on your side, just saying that the actual majority might not prefer it and consider it even bad.
- sschueller 8y agoIm hoping for a ActivityPub[1] reddit clone (or maybe I will start writing one myself if I have time). At that point it will be downhill for Reddit. Imagine, even HN could be a federated node... [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
- corobo 8y agoIsn't that the sort of thing Mastodon is about or are you picturing it differently?
- sschueller 8y agoI think Mastodon is more like Twitter and PeerTube[1] is like Yoututbe. Both use Activity Pub. [1] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
- Vinnl 8y agoThere is one such project in the works: https://mastodon.social/@prismo https://mastodon.social/@prismo (Note that the project is Prismo, not Mastodon - their web presence just happens to be a Mastodon profile at the moment.)
- moojd 8y agoHow do their 'subreddits' work? It would be really cool if prismo was sort of an aggregate of independent 'subreddit' servers.
- Vinnl 8y agoNo idea, unfortunately; that Mastodon page is all I know of it. I'm keeping an eye on it though, just in case. I agree that that would definitely be cool. Edit: Some more info at these links: - https://medium.com/we-distribute/prismo-is-a-decentralized-link-sharing-app-powered-by-activitypub-f03bfe1cf935 https://medium.com/we-distribute/prismo-is-a-decentralized-l... - https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100289732805767260 https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100289732805767260 - https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100237371462435727 https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100237371462435727 > Individual instances might be able to choose between representing themselves as one big subreddit, or as a collection of multiple subreddits.
- mcjiggerlog 8y agoThis is why I made an extension that makes sure you always load the old design - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
- celticninja 8y agoold.reddit.com still works but I dont know how long for, they have basically done a digg however right now there is no reasonable alternative for users to flock too.
- ErikHuisman 8y agoInstead of a fast digg they are doing a very very slow digg.
- DennisP 8y agoThey have a couple more compact options, one with small thumbnails and one with none. Just hit one of the view buttons in the upper left and it stays that way until you change it (at least if you're logged in, otherwise I don't know). But something I don't like is that clicking headlines takes you to the discussion, you need to click a tiny link to get the actual article. This is still true when you're already in the discussion, which makes no sense. And for some reason they don't display subreddits' descriptive sidebar text, which sometimes has convenient links. Luckily, so far they'd rather have people viewing the old design than leaving the site, and have a way to opt out, which after a week or so I did. The old site's not as pretty, but I find it more readable and usable, and I haven't found any tempting features in the new design.
- code_duck 8y agoThere are so many things about their new design and changes that are very negative for new visitors. I’ve encountered a dozen bugs and niggling flaws which as an experienced user I can work around, and recognize as an error, but a new user would not understand. For example, say you come to reddit, you get the new mobile design. You do a search. It tells you no results were found and there’s nothing else on the page but that line of text: “Sorry, we couldn't find any results for 'Celiac'” It doesn’t indicate that it restricted the search that sub, or that you can search the entire site. However, if you get results? “25+ matches in r/Perfectfit Search all of reddit”. This is starting at one result, so it’s puzzling that it is not there for 0 results. The behavior of automatically restricting the search to one sub is also the opposite of the behavior on the old the desktop version. As a web programmer and designer, I also recognize these as the mistakes of lazy people or amateurs which could be rectified without delay. I have reported several bugs like this months ago, and there has been no change.
- code_duck 8y agoI wanted to add that the way that this is the mistake of an amateur is how they released the search like that without noticing. The people coding it should’ve noticed immediately, and someone else on the staff should’ve noticed within a week, and fixed it. But then, not fixing it several months later even after receiving many user reports is qualitatively even worse. I can only imagine how many new users have been turned off by this.
- coryfklein 8y ago> I can only see two ads for the 2-hour series premiere event of Marvel's Cloak and Dagger, and I have to scroll down to see the third That is a bald faced lie. I don't want to downplay the placement of the ads on that screen, but to say that they are the _only_ thing you can see is a lie. What I don't get, is why lie about it when the evidence is literally the picture that is being captioned. Color me confused. EDIT: I finally get the joke, read below.
- piedar 8y agoIt's presented as a software bug report, with the sarcastic implication that having to scroll to the third advertisement is a defect in the design.
- coryfklein 8y agoAhhhhh after reading and re-reading this a few times I'm finally getting it. They're sarcastically saying that you should be able to see all 3 ads without having to scroll. LOL okay that's actually funny, even after having the joke explained to me.