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Whilst the content on voat kept me from using it, I clicked this link and couldn't help noticing how quickly it loaded. How much content was on the screen. How

Whilst the content on voat kept me from using it, I clicked this link and couldn't help noticing how quickly it loaded. How much content was on the screen. How many comments I could read before hitting "load more", which simply loaded more rather than sending me to a different page. For a site with funding issues and limited Devs, voats usability should be a huge embarassment to the Reddit it based itself on.

edoceo 6y ago
Once again tho, it's not the tech that makes/breaks the company/platform
- alrs 6y ago
  Tell that to Friendster.
draw_down 6y ago
Well, performance didn’t save Voat, so not sure what your point is exactly...
gruez 6y ago
Is this comparing to the new reddit interface, or the old one? The old one is just as fast, although the page size might be slightly smaller.
Sebguer 6y ago
This is a pretty weird assertion - Voat doesn't have to worry about literally any of the scale problems Reddit does.
- cwhiz 6y ago
  Reddit has usability problems by design. Reddit want to make it as obnoxious as possible to use on a mobile phone, so that you’ll download their stupid app. They also push you to login to view more content, so they can track you. Reddit is just a cesspool, and it’s by design. Absolutely nothing to do with scaling problems.
  - kfrncs 6y ago
    Ever since they’ve started nagging to get the app, nagging to log in, not letting me read more comments without logging in, I’ve stopped using Reddit. I came here instead. I opened Voat one time because I found some people in a ~6 year old FOSS Reddit thread who had used a script to replace all their comments essentially with ‘Screw Reddit, I’m going to Voat.’ That place is a _cesspool_.
    - andrewflnr 6y ago
      Old.reddit.com still exists, and is a lot more usable. Ed: to be clear, I use it logged in. I don't know how dark-patterny it is when logged out.
      - yaomtc 6y ago
        Old.reddit.com is not usable on mobile.
        modeless 6y ago
        I use it on mobile. Still better than the new site. Chrome has bugs with the "text scaling" feature but if you turn it off then old.reddit.com works fine.
        paranoidrobot 6y ago
        Like the sibling commenter, I use old.reddit.com on mobile - but the key being that I switch the browser into Desktop mode.
        meowster 6y ago
        In posts with embedded pictures, I have to remove the "old." in the URL in order to be able to see the pictures, switching to desktop mode doesn't solve the problem.
      - skavi 6y ago
        i.reddit.com is a fairly fast mobile interface.
- tristan957 6y ago
  The design of your website in Reddit's case has nothing to do with scale. Shitty UX will always be shitty UX no matter how many users are on your platform.
  - mrlala 6y ago
    >The design of your website in Reddit's case has nothing to do with scale Sure it does. Once you reach a large enough scale you kind of need to do stuff to attempt to not be losing money on the development & hardware costs of such a large platform.. so you end up changing, even if it's not 'for the best'.
skavi 6y ago
i.reddit.com and old.reddit.com are both sorta ugly, but fast enough.
deeviant 6y ago
Are you using the reddit re-design? Because don't.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
Use old.reddit.com. Usually loads pages in a second or two, so I'm not sure why that's so bad?

edoceo 6y ago

Once again tho, it's not the tech that makes/breaks the company/platform

alrs 6y ago
Tell that to Friendster.

draw_down 6y ago

Well, performance didn’t save Voat, so not sure what your point is exactly...

gruez 6y ago

Is this comparing to the new reddit interface, or the old one? The old one is just as fast, although the page size might be slightly smaller.

Sebguer 6y ago

This is a pretty weird assertion - Voat doesn't have to worry about literally any of the scale problems Reddit does.

cwhiz 6y ago
Reddit has usability problems by design. Reddit want to make it as obnoxious as possible to use on a mobile phone, so that you’ll download their stupid app. They also push you to login to view more content, so they can track you. Reddit is just a cesspool, and it’s by design. Absolutely nothing to do with scaling problems.
- kfrncs 6y ago
  Ever since they’ve started nagging to get the app, nagging to log in, not letting me read more comments without logging in, I’ve stopped using Reddit. I came here instead. I opened Voat one time because I found some people in a ~6 year old FOSS Reddit thread who had used a script to replace all their comments essentially with ‘Screw Reddit, I’m going to Voat.’ That place is a _cesspool_.
  - andrewflnr 6y ago
    Old.reddit.com still exists, and is a lot more usable. Ed: to be clear, I use it logged in. I don't know how dark-patterny it is when logged out.
    - yaomtc 6y ago
      Old.reddit.com is not usable on mobile.
      - modeless 6y ago
        I use it on mobile. Still better than the new site. Chrome has bugs with the "text scaling" feature but if you turn it off then old.reddit.com works fine.
      - paranoidrobot 6y ago
        Like the sibling commenter, I use old.reddit.com on mobile - but the key being that I switch the browser into Desktop mode.
        meowster 6y ago
        In posts with embedded pictures, I have to remove the "old." in the URL in order to be able to see the pictures, switching to desktop mode doesn't solve the problem.
    - skavi 6y ago
      i.reddit.com is a fairly fast mobile interface.
tristan957 6y ago
The design of your website in Reddit's case has nothing to do with scale. Shitty UX will always be shitty UX no matter how many users are on your platform.
- mrlala 6y ago
  >The design of your website in Reddit's case has nothing to do with scale Sure it does. Once you reach a large enough scale you kind of need to do stuff to attempt to not be losing money on the development & hardware costs of such a large platform.. so you end up changing, even if it's not 'for the best'.

skavi 6y ago

i.reddit.com and old.reddit.com are both sorta ugly, but fast enough.

deeviant 6y ago

Are you using the reddit re-design? Because don't.

stjohnswarts 6y ago

Use old.reddit.com. Usually loads pages in a second or two, so I'm not sure why that's so bad?