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> Explains why Reddit promotes it so much It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. Not only is it deliberately made a miserable experienc

> Explains why Reddit promotes it so much It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. Not only is it deliberately made a miserable experience by forcing you through AMP via Google and insisting you "continue in browser" every time, but then you're greeted with a banner that outright says "this page is better in the app".

Mindwipe 5y ago
> It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. You can probably cross "mobile" out of this entirely. Reddit have spent three years now building sites that are worse in every way than the decade old junker it's trying to replace.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  Say what you want about the implementation but the new design is definitely better for watching memes. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the design doc simply said “focus on memes”
  - arepublicadoceu 5y ago
    It’s definitely not better then old reddit + reddit enhancement suit. So, maybe, they should have improved the old design instead of creating that insanity that is newreddit.
- entropicgravity 5y ago
  Yes but if you use old.reddit.com and specify just the subreddits you want (eg http://old.reddit.com/r/truereddit+technology+science http://old.reddit.com/r/truereddit+technology+science) then you can still get something that's not too crappy.
  - falcrist 5y ago
    I wonder how long it'll be before they phase out the old site. For now I still use it because it's significantly faster and easier to use, but I strongly suspect they want me on their new site.
    - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
      As long as reddit's API still exists, someone will make a site that recreates the old reddit experience.
      - Breza 5y ago
        I wonder how long they'll keep the API live with so few restrictions and fees. Twitter makes huge amounts of money from selling the kind of data that PushShift gives away for free from Reddit.
- prox 5y ago
  Reddit’s mobile site looks like it was made by a group of 15 year olds and doing a my first website tutorial, falling into all the traps there are. The amount of times it crashes on mobile platforms is insane.
- jccalhoun 5y ago
  Agreed. I don't mind the new layout but it is still amazing that after years of this new layout that at least once a week I go to reddit and it can't load comments. I'm not a developer so maybe there is a valid reason but as a user it just seems ridiculous that the site can't do its main function reliably.
- chungy 5y ago
  It's ironic that I find old.reddit.com to provide a vastly superior mobile experience than the mobile-focused replacement is supposed to be.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
> It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. If they cared that much about whether or not what they were working on made the world better or worse they'd never have taken a job at Reddit.
- reayn 5y ago
  Literally this, it's hard for me to even consider a job at Reddit without the companys' reputation coming to mind.
al_ak 5y ago
Reddit literally does not care about the usability of their mobile site: https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/o7wo1s/this_subreddit_has_been_completely_abandoned_and/ https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/o7wo1s/this_subr...
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Mindwipe 5y ago

> It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. You can probably cross "mobile" out of this entirely. Reddit have spent three years now building sites that are worse in every way than the decade old junker it's trying to replace.

wodenokoto 5y ago
Say what you want about the implementation but the new design is definitely better for watching memes. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the design doc simply said “focus on memes”
- arepublicadoceu 5y ago
  It’s definitely not better then old reddit + reddit enhancement suit. So, maybe, they should have improved the old design instead of creating that insanity that is newreddit.
entropicgravity 5y ago
Yes but if you use old.reddit.com and specify just the subreddits you want (eg http://old.reddit.com/r/truereddit+technology+science http://old.reddit.com/r/truereddit+technology+science) then you can still get something that's not too crappy.
- falcrist 5y ago
  I wonder how long it'll be before they phase out the old site. For now I still use it because it's significantly faster and easier to use, but I strongly suspect they want me on their new site.
  - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
    As long as reddit's API still exists, someone will make a site that recreates the old reddit experience.
    - Breza 5y ago
      I wonder how long they'll keep the API live with so few restrictions and fees. Twitter makes huge amounts of money from selling the kind of data that PushShift gives away for free from Reddit.
prox 5y ago
Reddit’s mobile site looks like it was made by a group of 15 year olds and doing a my first website tutorial, falling into all the traps there are. The amount of times it crashes on mobile platforms is insane.
jccalhoun 5y ago
Agreed. I don't mind the new layout but it is still amazing that after years of this new layout that at least once a week I go to reddit and it can't load comments. I'm not a developer so maybe there is a valid reason but as a user it just seems ridiculous that the site can't do its main function reliably.
chungy 5y ago
It's ironic that I find old.reddit.com to provide a vastly superior mobile experience than the mobile-focused replacement is supposed to be.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

> It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. If they cared that much about whether or not what they were working on made the world better or worse they'd never have taken a job at Reddit.

reayn 5y ago
Literally this, it's hard for me to even consider a job at Reddit without the companys' reputation coming to mind.

al_ak 5y ago

Reddit literally does not care about the usability of their mobile site: https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/o7wo1s/this_subreddit_has_been_completely_abandoned_and/ https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/o7wo1s/this_subr...

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