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Everyone involved in the decision-making process for this needs to be fired. They are obviously so incompetent it's hopeless. Have they ever even used their own
by xvector 7y ago
Everyone involved in the decision-making process for this needs to be fired. They are obviously so incompetent it's hopeless. Have they ever even used their own mobile website before?
You see this sort of shit in a lot of places where employees can't be bothered to dogfood their own platform.
- kgwxd 7y agoFrom their point of view, the website is evil. The app has better telemetry. They knew eliminating the site wasn't an option, so they made it just bad enough to push users towards the app. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, maximize income. And it's possible that was executed without any individual designer or programmer thinking they were doing anything wrong. Except the ones responsible for adding tracking outbound clicks, they're terrible people.
- krageon 7y agoIf you don't have a holistic view of the product as a designer or programmer that's almost wilful ignorance, especially with something as trivial as Reddit.
- tomjen3 7y agoI wish Apple would just say to places that try to register an app, "no, you have a perfectly usable website", or at the least if you have a website and is found to have an app with functionality that should be on your website, your account is permanently banned, with no recurse.
- x2f10 7y agoI'll disagree with the old saying: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".
- paggle 7y agoWhat makes you think that the new design isn’t achieving their goals? That usability is a priority for them?