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Huffman has been the CEO in charge of Reddit when they implemented both "New Reddit" and their mobile apps. I wonder if he's at least a little embarrassed that
by sorenjan 3y ago
Huffman has been the CEO in charge of Reddit when they implemented both "New Reddit" and their mobile apps. I wonder if he's at least a little embarrassed that his team can't make something as well liked and good as some solo developers with only API access, not hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nothing I've seen from Reddit the last years have been particularly impressive, they even used some third party company for their chat functionality which I don't think many users wanted or used. At least the uptime seems to have improved.
- jriggs 3y ago[flagged]
- mostlysimilar 3y agoTotally wrong. Have you used Apollo vs the official iOS app? Night and day user experiences. The official app is buggy, ugly, difficult to navigate, and affords not even half of the amount of customization that Apollo does.
- thefourthchime 3y agoI'm not that surprised, a handful or even a couple of passionate skilled developers can out-produce a 40-team of mediocre architecture astronauts with offshore contractors any day of the week. I have no clue if that's what's going on, but I've seen it many many times
- zmmmmm 3y agoWouldn't surprise me if the "official" Reddit app is now weighed down by a metric tonne of compliance that none of the other apps have to do. Not that it explains shipping actively user experience degrading features, but it can explain how they can get stuck with them once those poor decisions are made, because there is so much process involved to fix them that you basically give up.
- Mindwipe 3y agoYou say that but I had multiple "oww, you broke Reddit" messages during that AMA.