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Talented frontend engineers have for many years given Reddit information on how to address this; Paul Irish did one in 2015[0] and they are still suffering from

Talented frontend engineers have for many years given Reddit information on how to address this; Paul Irish did one in 2015[0] and they are still suffering from problems he outlined. I could do one for them to keep it current, but I could also just pipe it to /dev/null for how much action I expect to come from it. What's fairly horrifying are the mobile call to actions trumpeting "this page loads faster in the app." Cool: so you agree this is slow. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150705021035/https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile/issues/247 https://web.archive.org/web/20150705021035/https://github.co...

kevinschumacher 4y ago
> "this page loads faster in the app." And then a link to "Open in App" which just sends you to the App Store and not the actual content, in the app, which I've already got installed.
Nextgrid 4y ago
Ironically, frontend engineers are exactly why we ended up with this problem in the first place. The rewrite of the frontend wasn't about engagement or dark patterns (those could have been implemented just fine with the old UI), it's that they had a significant dev team (& managers, UI/product designers, etc) and needed them to do something, so a rewrite was kicked off, and now it's too late to turn back while saving face. They would've ended up in a better position had they just given these people one year of PTO instead of having them "fix" things that aren't broken just to keep them busy.