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Based on using the site, I believe most of their effort goes into making their video and image display code as bad as possible. There is no other explanation fo
by manicennui 3y ago
Based on using the site, I believe most of their effort goes into making their video and image display code as bad as possible. There is no other explanation for how terrible it is.
- Euphorbium 3y agoAt some point video bytes must be transmitted by reading them from one employee to the other via a rotary phone.
- lofatdairy 3y agoDon't forget optimizing the UI/UX to be as unpleasant as possible
- baggy_trough 3y agoAt least we can still "request" pretty please the greatly superior UI from 15 years ago.
- rxbudian 3y agothe closest you can get is old.reddit.com, which is the one I used all the time, but they've removed the nifty feature of listing the last 10 posts that I went to
- dizhn 3y agoWouldn't RES be well positioned to provide that functionality?
- johnnyanmac 3y agoIt might be, it might already be there. But RES has stopped feature development in 2021. If it's not there, it's not coming anytime soon.
- dizhn 3y ago> Q: Why doesn't RES incorporate reddit gold features? > It's unfair and unwise to undercut reddit inc.'s development work. Get gold! This is about Gold but it might be a more general "we do not step on Reddit's toes" kind of rule too.
- pwb25 3y agoor how bad the inline editor is with html options
- lagrange77 3y agoThose poor devs. I bet some of them had come up with great ideas, which they had to watch overruled by marketing people.
- throwaway20222 3y agoAhh yes, the “must be marketing’s fault” cry for bad usability, not internal disfunction and turf wars between engineering and product, or incompetence, or inattention, or… I bring this up only because I find when I do this blaming of <other non-build people>, I often miss the problem that is actually in front of my face and can actually impact.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoCould be both. But ofc I (and I imagine many others) are biased by intimate engineering experience. From my experience: as a game dev we ALWAYS know when a game sucks. Maybe some director or other director level person strongarmd it, so it's not like engineers can't be blind. But as a general consensus, I've met very few "bad devs" from a technical POV (a vector consumers often like to attack when they see bad gameplay). We work with a bad hand and we almost never get the extra time needed when we try to show publishers. Fortunately, it's a lot easier now to argue for delays than over a decade ago.
- edgyquant 3y agoThis. It takes a lot of effort to build an app that works as bad as Reddit does. It’s an engineering marvel
- nebula8804 3y agoThey probably copied the codebase that powers Twitter's video offering. In a way its great, helps break addiction to these sites if you can't actually use it.
- rqtwteye 3y agoThey may have hired some PM from the MS Teams team. They seem to be successful in their quest for breaking all features that still work. If there is nothing left to do, they move controls around so the user can’t find them anymore.
- djbusby 3y agoIf it ain't broke, fix it till it is.
- cowmoo728 3y agoit takes incredible engineering to make a 10s video have 360p visual quality but still require approximately 500mb of data to load