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Honestly the site is way too performant to be realistic. All those buttons worked nearly instantly. I'm assuming you're missing the awaited tracking networking
by tick_tock_tick 5y ago
Honestly the site is way too performant to be realistic. All those buttons worked nearly instantly. I'm assuming you're missing the awaited tracking networking calls.
- mathnmusic 5y agoAfter all the popups, it needs a last one saying "this site works best in our mobile app".
- notquitehuman 5y agoIMHO, it should be there as soon as you arrive on the site and then reappear on every page load.
- function_seven 5y agoAnd if you click past it to remain on the web version, you're presented with truncated lists ("Download App to read the rest!") or a slew of missing features. I have an old Instagram account that I created over 10 years ago. At the time, I used it for the photo filters. Never cared about the social networking aspect. Just a month ago I logged into it for the first time in forever, and realized I wanted to delete those old posts. Guess what you can't do from the website? Yeah, delete posts. Need the app for that!
- ratww 5y agoNot surprising. Facebook has very strict rate-limiting for deletion of posts, unfollowing of friends, leaving communities, and anything else that can potentially reduce your "engagement". Disabling it on some platforms was just the next step.
- arp242 5y agoI think it was just never implemented. The web page is fairly basic compared to the app, and AFAIK always has been (although I never used it much and haven't had an account in quite a while). Quite a few products are actually app-only now, without even any sort of web or desktop version. A few years ago I had trouble using the Dutch thuisbezorgd food service, I think it didn't allow me to change my address or something and just kept erroring out. I contacted support and they told me to use the app. I told them I don't have a smartphone. They said I was out of luck.
- G3rn0ti 5y agoI really hate that about Reddit. I liked browsing discussions on my phone occasionally but the web page kept nagging me into using the app instead. So finally I installed it. But now when googling for information and finding Reddit boards about my topic of interest clicking on „use app“ does not open Reddit app but instead directs me to the stupid App store. Useless! But maybe it’s Apple‘s fault here?
- phist_mcgee 5y agoNope. Deep linking to apps is a solved area. Reddit completely drops the ball on this, and has for years. Their engineering is a complete shambles. The only reason they survive is their market share, not for any reason of 'good experience'
- ptudan 5y agohaha clone of my comment at the same time
- phist_mcgee 5y agoGreat minds think alike ;)
- arp242 5y agoI'm almost tempted to apply for a job at Reddit to see why their engineering is such omnishambles. It's impressive in a way. The only good thing I have to say about it is that they're committed to keeping old.reddit.com alive indefinitely.
- Aeolun 5y agoBecause the team that built old.reddit.com has long since left? And now this is the only artifact they have from an era of decent engineering?
- ptudan 5y agoNope. Decent programmers know how to deeplink into apps, it's completely possible.
- philipov 5y agoThere are popups? I didn't see any. Must be my malware blocker in action.
- pphysch 5y agoNeeds more `await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, t));`
- adverbly 5y agoLGTM *Merges "changes to apiPromiseFactory.js"
- llimos 5y agoEspecially the 'More options' on the cookie popup. Needs to take at least 20 seconds and reload the page
- croes 5y agoAnd ads should load later so if you try to click a link the whole page content jumps down when you click and you click the ad instead of the link.
- fossuser 5y agoMaybe you can make it so the ad always loads under the cursor?
- dc3k 5y agoI am not seeing any autoplaying videos unrelated to the article that pop into a PIP window in the bottom of the screen as you scroll causing the amount that you've scrolled to jump so you lose your place
- rchaud 5y agoWe will be paying the price for Facebook's 2017-era "Pivot to video" advice for years to come.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoI didn't know Facebook _advised_ publishers to pivot to video? I thought that trend started with publishers themselves noticing that video had better engagement?
- telotortium 5y agoThey overstated the average time that video was viewed in the newsfeed by only counting views of at least 3 seconds in the denominator of the average, but counting views of less than that in the numerator [0]: > About a month ago, we found an error in the way we calculate one of the video metrics on our dashboard – average duration of video viewed. The metric should have reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who played the video. But it didn’t – it reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by only the number of “views” of a video (that is, when the video was watched for three or more seconds). And so the miscalculation overstated this metric. While this is only one of the many metrics marketers look at, we take any mistake seriously. So advertisers, who had believed that video content had high engagement due to the misleading statistics, and so made business decisions based on that (laying off writers in favor of video producers), saw video view times drop 60%-80% after the fix, because the view time was inflated by all the 0.5s-1s views initiated while users were scrolling past videos and not really watching them. This was corrected in 2016 though, but perhaps many news sites, and society in general, are still feeling the effects of writing being deemphasized in favor of video. [0]: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metrics-update https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...
- ksec 5y agoAnd my Laptop fan wasn't spinning up with all those Ads. And web page scrolling started to jank.
- naravara 5y agoI was about to say it needs about 7 or 8 additional ads inserted into the text of the article. Ideally they would load at random times and displace text out of the way as you're trying to read so you keep losing your place. Also, the article itself is clickbaity garbage that you resent yourself for clicking into in the first place.
- asddubs 5y agoand the "no" button on the cookie prompt didn't open another page with 50 radio inputs, and an intentionally oddly placed reject all (or none at all)