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I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a go
by jchw 6y ago
I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing.
On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.
- garmaine 6y agoI haven’t noticed any issues with Tweetbot on iOS.
- davejk 6y agoThere's a few things it doesn't support (like polls) because Twitter didn't add those features to the API.
- tiborsaas 6y agoI don't think that the new UI is intentionally bad. I can't imagine the team that pulls it off. It must be hell to work there or it's a team of sociopaths. Imagine plannings with power points on how to mess with users. I agree that the new UI is worse, I'm just baffled by the reasons why it's the case. Probably bad management / structure.
- dageshi 6y agoI can say as someone who runs a small niche subreddit, users have been finding my sub at a much increased rate in the past 6 months, I suspect because of the "related subs" boxes that auto insert themselves in the new design. If their aim was to improve the discoverability of smaller subs, they've achieved it.
- tiborsaas 6y agoIt's not all bad of course, it's a complex product so you can simultaneously delivery useful features while making the design / usability worse.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 6y agoSlide on Android. Available in the F-droid store too.
- calciphus 6y agoPersonally a fan of Sync for Reddit. Multiple interface methods (list, card, full-page swipe) and other reader niceties.
- ignoramous 6y ago> it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience Aggressive stance by Safari and Firefox isn't helping online businesses reliant on extensive user-tracking. Apple controls the AppStore so it is more likely that Apple devices would soon become the de-facto choice for people trying to evade surveillance.
- WoefullyInept 6y agoI'm genuinely surprised they haven't backtracked on this - it completely ruins the experience.
- nanagojo 6y agoThe twitter dark pattern of forcing you to refresh is so stupid
- fouc 6y agoWhat is that all about?! I've been wondering, every time I click a twitter link in iOS from say slack, I get the stupid partial load and then the refresh message.
- ycombinete 6y agoI think it's designed to frustrate you into downloading that app
- guessmyname 6y agoTwitter UI uses a token to authenticate all operations with their own API. When you use the mobile application the token is refreshed automatically. When you use the web version it does the same but only if you are logged in. It happens to me all the time. I don’t use Twitter myself but many people in my circle of friends and colleagues do. They constantly share stuff that is posted on Twitter and almost every time I click these links I get the error message because the token in my web browser storage has been invalidated, so I have to reload the page one or two times to force the UI to request a new token so I can see the content and then forget about Twitter for a couple of hours until another friend or colleague shares another link and the circle repeats again.
- rossvor 6y agoTry using nitter -- a no js twitter interface. Reading UX is so much better with it.
- jeroenhd 6y agoWhat pattern is this? I use the PWA with Firefox and I haven't encountered any dark patterns involving refreshing myself.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoI've totally stopped using reddit. It is incredibly annoying that every single page has that annoying popup.
- strombofulous 6y agoChange the www in the url to an i
- redd1taway 6y agoOr an "old". You can use "old.reddit.com" instead of "www.reddit.com", but you might get an SSL error if you try to use "https://www.old.reddit.com/..." https://www.old.reddit.com/...".
- thewhitetulip 6y agoI did not know the i.reddit.com, I did know the old one but it is not of much use on a mobile phone
- gpderetta 6y agothere's a firefox plugin for that :)
- mcjiggerlog 6y agoLink: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
- jay3ss 6y agoI made an (experimental) extension for Firefox that lets you choose which version of reddit you want to use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/reddirect-new/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/reddirect-new...
- vultour 6y agoAm I the only one that likes the official Reddit app? I used Alien Blue before, which has actually been replaced by the official app, and there's nothing I can complain about in either. The only regression is that now there are ads, but I find them so unintrusive I don't really care.
- sigsergv 6y agoI like it too, it's clean and simple,
- TechBro8615 6y agoApollo is great. Reddit should be embarrassed that one solo dev can make a vastly better app than the Reddit team itself.