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>I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse. They are, because the business wants you to download the app.
by 50656E6973 7y ago
>I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.
They are, because the business wants you to download the app.
- Infernal 7y agoThen why provide old.reddit.com?
- ScottFree 7y agoIf I had to guess, they're keenly aware of the demise of digg and don't want to follow in their footsteps. They're probably tracking what percentage of their users are still using the old design.
- clircle 7y agoTo temper the uproar
- orev 7y agoBecause they know if they didn’t they would lose tons of users immediately. They’re betting that many of those users will slowly get used to the new site, or they can remove access to the old site in smaller groups instead of all at once. They also could be trying to work out bugs on the new site and the old one gives them a decent fallback for people. Also could be that some of the more obscure functionality of the site has not been ported to the new design, so they can link into the old one for those pages.
- MrMember 7y agoThey remember what happened to Digg.
- faissaloo 7y agoWhy would they expect me to download an app on my laptop?
- 50656E6973 7y agoProbably most users browse using mobile devices
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThis kind of clueless, smug cynicism is one of the worst parts of internet comments. It's why basically every comment section on Reddit is a vapid circlejerk.
- majewsky 7y agoWould you like HN to protect you from the truth?
- lozenge 7y agoCynicism? It's right there when you visit any reddit page on mobile. "This page loads better in the app" modal etc.
- blueboo 7y agoDude. Try browsing Reddit incognito mode: every time you visit you get a modal dialog trying to trick you into to download the app to proceed. Even the order of the options varies. Bad faith dark design throughout