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Reddit has possibly the worst mobile experience I've ever seen. I've never seen a company try to force its (awful, slow, buggy) app down people's throats harder
by bgro 5y ago
Reddit has possibly the worst mobile experience I've ever seen. I've never seen a company try to force its (awful, slow, buggy) app down people's throats harder if you try to use the mobile web version.
The entire mod culture needs to be reworked too. They need mods because more people brings more trolls, but aggressive banning and simultaneous muting so people can't ask why just leads to more trolling. Not to mention most mods just cite every ban in the coverall "read the rules / figure it out" so they have to spend no effort, even though those rules don't cover the actual ban reason.
I just can't believe how many consistently bad decisions are made there. The biggest of all was probably removing the separated and accurate upvote / downvote counters which is a massive feature to show the strength of otherwise downvoted comments.
Aside from these feature complaints, how does a company of this size and importance have such an astonishingly badly coded interface? I always have to use the Old site. It reminds me of an intern coming in and on day 1 marking all code as "legacy" and saying "Electron is the greatest thing ever made, because it's easy and just works. There's literally no reason to use anything except Electron for any project."
- raxxorrax 5y agoRemoving downvotes is largely something advertisers demand. Advertising is still stuck in some old ways. I know some in corporate ad departments that feel the need to respond to every negative comment on the internet. That is implementing hell for anybody that has that task.
- runnerup 5y ago> I've never seen a company try to force its (awful, slow, buggy) app down people's throats harder if you try to use the mobile web version. Instagram and Twitter do this as well, FWIW.
- peanuty1 5y agoInstagram and Twitter's apps are a lot better than Reddit's.