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Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop
- atomi 6y agoThis is great. Can you add /r/all?
- NoPicklez 6y agoDefinitely needs /r/all, then I can see the overview, then have my specific subreddits next to it.
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- bra-ket 6y agogreat work, too bad reddit is becoming a political propaganda machine
- RspecMAuthortah 6y agoNot sure why you are downvoted. But some subs like politics and worldnews are just pure propaganda and bots driven at this point.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoAny suggestions on feeds for politics and worldnews?
- iliekcomputers 6y agoIn my experience, no subreddit on reddit is (or can remain) an unbiased neutral source of information about politics. Either subscribe to a bunch of them, one for each world view, or just classify reddit as a flawed news source and move on to something better.
- CathedralBorrow 6y agoOut of curiousity, where on Earth can you find "an unbiased neutral source of information about politics"?
- iliekcomputers 6y agoIt's definitely not news media. I don't think it exists. :)
- gruez 6y ago>are just pure propaganda and bots driven at this point I'm curious, what's your criteria for propaganda? Is it just content/viewpoints that you don't like? Likewise, for bots. Can link to some examples of bot-like behavior that's happening on reddit? Preferably provide hard evidence of some kind, like the ones done for this story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/so...
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- gkoberger 6y agoI don't think this is true. Reddit worked hard to keep alt-right viewpoints on the site, but subs like r/the_donald were so nasty that they had no choice. They also banned liberal subs at the same time. Let's not act like Reddit is banning subs that discuss trickle down economics or debate the merits of a smaller government.
- bra-ket 6y agoit's full of radical left propaganda even on non-political subs like /r/pics and whatnot
- throwawaysea 6y agoI can’t trust Reddit anymore given their complete commitment towards thought policing and censorship of ant views that don’t align with a far left ideology. Here’s a list of alternative platforms: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v5/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...
- midasz 6y agogab and voat lmao
- reflectiv 6y ago"radical left propaganda" what like wanting health care and a clean environment for everyone?
- natchy 6y agoI hadn't been on reddit in years, but just went on from this post. I'd say it feels like "Youtube Comments, the app".
- jjcon 6y agoThe last few times I’ve been to reddit /r/all was just full of news about Donald Trump. As someone that doesn’t really get current American politics I’m just so confused at how people don’t get tired of it. Like I get it, fill the front page for a few days in 2016... but its like every day... all the time... I just want cute pictures of cats... can’t we just have 1 happy place.
- c9fc42ad 6y agoWhy not make an account and subscribe to whatever you find interesting? Then just avoid /r/all
- jjcon 6y agoI suppose I could, seeing the community via /r/all doesn’t really make me want to get invested though. Maybe I’m missing out on some gems but I’ve got plenty of things to keep my attention as it is.
- EasyTiger_ 6y ago> Maybe I’m missing out on some gems Trust me, you're not
- gkoberger 6y ago[Edited to clarify] You can subscribe/unsubscribe from subs on the main page when logged in. If you want to block subs from appearing on r/all, you can with Reddit Gold or an extension.
- gruez 6y ago>You can subscribe/unsubscribe from subs, as you know! You need Reddit Gold for it, but it's possible. What? In this a recent thing or something for new accounts? I can subscribe/unsubscribe just fine.
- egypturnash 6y agoI live in America and trust me we are pretty fucking tired of it too.
- pletsch 6y agoJust a heads up, nothing happens when you click about
- RspecMAuthortah 6y agoGreat work. Good way to not have to see distracting posts with bot driven upvotes. What technology stack did you use in the front end?
- lecarore 6y agoGreat concept, but many buttons don't have any label or tooltip, please add at least one of the two. The "hot" button is very cryptic to me. On my computer, i don't have an easy way to scroll left and right, so the layout is suboptimal. Clicking on the link once to show the comments and a second time to follow the link is not ideal. It should at least be made clear what will happen when you click. Maybe make the title black when it's just a comment toggle, and then blue when it will link to the article
- zer0-c00l 6y agoIs this opensource? If not, have you considered opensourcing it? This is pretty cool
- zestyping 6y agoNice idea! The "About" link doesn't seem to go anywhere at the moment. What's your privacy policy?
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- shanselman 6y agoCool. Would be nice if it was PWA and could be "installed."
- rayrag 6y agoTry https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier, it's not perfect but it works.
- jjcm 6y agoI'm using a very similar design[1] for a reddit-esque clone I'm working on, but I'm actually about to move away from it. The column approach makes sense at first - it seems like a great way to view multiple streams of content. The reality though seems to be that it creates more UX problems than it solves. One example is that when you have multiple frames inside a UI it destroys the page navigation. Back buttons may not do what you expect them to - does it go back to the previous view for the column you last interacted with, or does it go back to the previous url? It's very easy to simply open up another browser tab or tile a window, which gives you most of the benefits of a column UI without any of the downsides. [1] http://files.jjcm.org/columns.mp4 http://files.jjcm.org/columns.mp4
- WmyEE0UsWAwC2i 6y agoShoutout to rtv (reddit terminal viewer)
- rkangel 6y agoI didn't know about it, and now I do I discover that it's not maintained. Do you have a recommended alternative?
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- y2bd 6y agoWhat was your intent behind adopting the "Tweetdeck" style of UI for this presentation? Tweetdeck's intent is supposedly that you'd need to be monitoring multiple feeds efficiently (e.g. you are a social media manager with multiple accounts, or you need live-updating search queries to react to). For Reddit though, most of the time subreddits aren't really meant to be consumed "live", or many-posts-at-once, which means that for me, this ultimately just ends up shrinking my Reddit browsing experience into a thin column surrounded by content I don't care about at the current moment, which goes against the "efficiency" that I imagine this design is intended for. For folks who like this style of UI, what do you get out of it?
- birksherty 6y agoI like it because I can see multiple feeds in a single page without clicking and loading more pages. I really hate mobile first whitespace trend of modern designs (not talking about reddit here).
- gimmemahlulz 6y agoYou can do that with multireddits IE: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit+funny+pics/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit+funny+pics/
- chomp 6y agoThey're intermingled though. I get whiplash browsing my feed because one post will be about 3d printers, and the next one will be about my local baseball team, and then the next will be a political cartoon, etc. This project is an interesting take because I can browse all of them simultaneously without having to context switch so much.
- runawaybottle 6y agoIt’s more accessible than Reddit is on mobile. Awesome job. Side note: Whoever at Reddit came up with the idea to badger users on every other click to ‘open the Reddit app’ needs to be dealt with.
- devwastaken 6y agoIts amazing how far backwards reddit went. In browser on desktop it's incredibly slow, even just clicking the comment box to write takes a few seconds and lags out for no reason. No doubt they're employing an uber amount of user tracking and all manner of inefficient code.
- kactus 6y agoIt really is. Doesn't matter which browser you use, how beefy your computer is, OS, etc., the new redesign is super slow. It speeds up a bit when you run an adblocker, but even then just going through about 15 posts and things start to stutter and chug. It's helping me stay off reddit though as a side-effect, which is one of my goals lately.
- warent 6y agoUsing their mobile website on android chrome regularly crashes...
- mrweasel 6y agoA large number of sub-reddits aren’t even available on mobile browsers, they’re aggressively trying to push you to their app.
- Lazare 6y agoIt's really inexplicable. Old Reddit was fine, not great, just fine. The new Reddit UI is hideously bad. It was terrible when it launched, it was terrible months later, and it's still terrible now. I'm honestly at a loss. Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy?
- systematical 6y agoWas fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.
- pedrogpimenta 6y agoI'm also building, or trying to, a client for Reddit made with React. The thing I'm not achieving is properly rendering videos hosted on Reddit. I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible. It's totally closed from being played outside of reddit.com by using CORS. I can't in any way play the DASH or HLS files from reddit. I can load the mp4 fallback, but guess what? It's a video without audio. You can get the audio, but it's not documented anywhere (found on stackoverflow, I think). But of course, playing two files at once and syncing them is bound to break, specially on slow networks. For a website dedicated to sharing stuff from all around the web (reddit didn't even have image hosting until a few years ago), it is really a dick move that you can't share stuff from reddit elsewhere. It's a shame. Reddit is merely a shell of what it used to be, sadly. Edit: You seem to have the same problem with video :(
- pjc50 6y agoWould some sort of slightly ridiculous iframe fallback work? That is, just embed reddit's entire video play page?
- pedrogpimenta 6y agoEmbedding the "video play" page will embed the entire page. I don't even know if it would work but it would cripple my webapp which is supposed to be fast, not like reddit's crappy interface. I mean, if I have to deal with that anyways, then I'll just use reddit's own interface. I still use it daily and I have a small reddit icon which will open the relevant reddit.com post on a new tab and I can see it then. It just shouldn't be like this, but "oh, well..."
- lopis 6y ago> For a website dedicated to sharing stuff from all around the we Reddit has moved away from being a sharing website to being a social network. This started years ago, but they have consistently move in the direction of siloing users. Strongly encourage users to upload images and videos directly to reddit; Reddit media cannot be hot-linked and always shows you the reddit thread; new features are only available in the official site and apps; certain media won't play properly on third party apps; website experience degraded by constantly pushing users to their app, where they can better control and track them.
- varbhat 6y agoI literally need reddit client which looks/modelled after HN. I like that HN has lightweight content focussed website(frontend). https://i.reddit.com https://i.reddit.com is one good frontend.
- shultays 6y agoThat looks horrible on desktop. Images on far right while the title on far left.
- varbhat 6y agoWell, i.reddit.com is for mobiles. For desktops, use https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com
- millzlane 6y agoThere are a couple of extensions that still force this url for everything. I used this one https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
- rayrag 6y agoIn Firefox middle click on title doesn't work (it should open link in new tab).
- kevincox 6y agoYeah, annoyingly on the web you need to be very careful what click events you prevent. The best practice is to only prevent clicks with no modifiers and check that the mouse button was the one that you intend. (Also avoid handling anything but a left click anyways). Of course the "default" is to block all clicks so it is inevitable that this happens :(
- beshrkayali 6y agoInteresting! But doesn't work on Firefox if you have Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled. Maybe this would work better as an extension? Similar to RES.
- emoprincejack 6y agoYeesh, Reddit is not that good, huh.
- qwerty456127 6y agoFeels clickbaity. The title made me expect there is a native desktop app built on a classic desktop widget toolkit. Nevertheless, I still like this one anyway - good job!
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- fred_is_fred 6y agoAs I scanned this headline (and before I got to the end), I assumed you had in fact designed a tool that would help you design a real deck that was safe to post on Reddit. Posting pictures of your homemade backyard deck build is one of the more brave things you can do on the site as it will generally get destroyed in the comments with everything you did wrong and how it's going to sink into the swamp, after catching on fire.
- ecmascript 6y agoLooks really cool, too bad reddit itself sucks ass and I stopped using reddit since the heavy censorship began.
- treebornfrog 6y agoThis looks excellent, I will be trying it out later today. Reddit's redesign was an absolute catastrophy. Its sluggish and the mobile popups that direct users to app or Web is downright intrusive. I use baconreader premium on mobile to keep my sanity. Disclosure: I have no affiliation with baconreader app / team.
- francobatta 6y agoOn Android I use Infinity for Reddit, it's really lightweight, especially when compared to Reddit's own mess
- EricE 6y agoDoes anyone remember .qwk and QWK readers from the BBS days? I want that. Let me download the messages, sift through them how I want to and reply. Oops - I forgot. Communication isn't the goal of forums these days; monetization is :(
- 9935c101ab17a66 6y agoCouple of things: - It wasn't immediately obvious to me that modifying the UI on rddeck.com (by leaving subreddits) would actually modify my subscriptions on my account. There's a place for managing your subs in something like this, but it should be a lot more clear, and I think the main focus should be on the user customizing the UI without modifying their account - The oblong pill loading bars at the top of each column look exactly like drag handles, and I was super confused why I couldn't rearrange the columns by dragging them. I think that making them drag handles would be useful, and reimplementing the loading bar as something else would be a good change. - Dragging to rearrange the subreddit order is painfully janky in both safari and firefox for me on macOS. It's almost unusable. - The subreddit sort order dropdown / active sort order implementation is strange. Simply having just the current sort order + a little chevron pointing down in a button would be much more intuitive. If this was open source, I'd definitely be willing to contribute. Cool start, and a cool idea.
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