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if facebook can maintain mbasic, then reddit can maintain old. the onboarding funnel is towards new reddit anyway, old is mature and _appears_ stable, and most
by nunez 5y ago
if facebook can maintain mbasic, then reddit can maintain old. the onboarding funnel is towards new reddit anyway, old is mature and _appears_ stable, and most folks new to the platform will use their official app.
i can see the API becoming more restrictive in the coming years, like Facebook and Twitter’s before it.
- Semaphor 5y agoThe fabricated issues with old are starting to appear, though. Slow reddit now supports markdown code blocks with 3 `’s instead of 4 spaces, which gets rendered as normal inline-text on old. Using the editor to insert links with _ in them on slow, will escape the underscores (…/this_is/ => …/this\_is/), breaking the links for users of the fast version. The worst part (for me) is, that I actually like the new reddit. In compact mode it’s cleaner than old while not wasting any space compared to old. But sadly their performance targets were something like "Uh, I guess pages should probably load in under 500ms" which is in no way acceptable for me.
- jstx1 5y ago> Slow reddit now supports markdown code blocks with 3 `’s instead of 4 spaces, which gets rendered as normal inline-text on old. Reading through advent of code solutions has been a mess because of this. Some people just won't 4-space it.
- nunez 5y agotons of scrolling gifs blow through that performance high-watermark, especially on mobile (even on the M1 iPad)
- Semaphor 5y agoI don’t care much about mobile, and even if I didn’t have a gif-animation-blocker extension installed, it wouldn’t be that much of an issue as they barely get used in the subreddits I read in ;)