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Don't forget optimizing the UI/UX to be as unpleasant as possible

by lofatdairy 3y ago

baggy_trough 3y ago
At least we can still "request" pretty please the greatly superior UI from 15 years ago.
- rxbudian 3y ago
  the 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 ago
    Wouldn't RES be well positioned to provide that functionality?
    - johnnyanmac 3y ago
      It 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 ago
or how bad the inline editor is with html options
lagrange77 3y ago
Those poor devs. I bet some of them had come up with great ideas, which they had to watch overruled by marketing people.
- throwaway20222 3y ago
  Ahh 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 ago
    Could 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 ago
This. It takes a lot of effort to build an app that works as bad as Reddit does. It’s an engineering marvel

Don't forget optimizing the UI/UX to be as unpleasant as possible

baggy_trough 3y ago

At least we can still "request" pretty please the greatly superior UI from 15 years ago.

rxbudian 3y ago
the 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 ago
  Wouldn't RES be well positioned to provide that functionality?
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    It 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 ago

or how bad the inline editor is with html options

lagrange77 3y ago

Those poor devs. I bet some of them had come up with great ideas, which they had to watch overruled by marketing people.

throwaway20222 3y ago
Ahh 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 ago
  Could 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 ago

This. It takes a lot of effort to build an app that works as bad as Reddit does. It’s an engineering marvel