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Reddit has become steadily less useful to me; the UI is awful. The endless pressure to use their app is irritating. So I dunno that I buy this adulation of Ste

by adamc 3y ago

Reddit has become steadily less useful to me; the UI is awful. The endless pressure to use their app is irritating. So I dunno that I buy this adulation of Steve.

rideontime 3y ago
Steve = spez, right? Not seeing a lot of adulation of him these days.
- 1oooqooq 3y ago
  his best idea was to "make the use-the-app popups in the browser so annoying that people will finally give up and move to the app they hate"... so all of reddit was full of hate-memes for spez recently.
  - rideontime 3y ago
    A glance at his profile shows he hasn't posted anything since the intense backlash against the API changes: https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/ https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/ Doesn't exactly inspire confidence!
    - 1oooqooq 3y ago
      oh yeah, the api changes were because everyone moved to 3rd party apps, because the official one is garbage, and he had just killed the site with the use-the-app popups... so they changed the api to kill the 3rd party apps lol.
    - ttepasse 3y ago
      He posts in other peoples posts. ;)
- phone8675309 3y ago
  Does he still edit comments in the database if the don't align with his political preferences?
halfjoking 3y ago
Reddit mobile web homepage started freezing for me a couple months ago. It happens about 1/3rd of page loads. That was the final straw. I haven't been to the site for weeks for the first time in 12 years.
- nullindividual 3y ago
  As of yesterday, the logged out mobile experience got much worse for me. There is now a bottom-of-screen popup prompting you to login, advertise on reddit, or shop 'collectable avatars' (who the hell would do that...). Every time you navigate back from a post to the feed, yet another popup. But I've come to recognize this is an intended feature and not a bug.
x3n0ph3n3 3y ago
It's downright unusable to me without old.reddit.com. If they ever got rid of the old interface, I'd probably stop using it completely.

by adamc 3y ago

Reddit has become steadily less useful to me; the UI is awful. The endless pressure to use their app is irritating. So I dunno that I buy this adulation of Steve.

rideontime 3y ago

Steve = spez, right? Not seeing a lot of adulation of him these days.

1oooqooq 3y ago
his best idea was to "make the use-the-app popups in the browser so annoying that people will finally give up and move to the app they hate"... so all of reddit was full of hate-memes for spez recently.
- rideontime 3y ago
  A glance at his profile shows he hasn't posted anything since the intense backlash against the API changes: https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/ https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/ Doesn't exactly inspire confidence!
  - 1oooqooq 3y ago
    oh yeah, the api changes were because everyone moved to 3rd party apps, because the official one is garbage, and he had just killed the site with the use-the-app popups... so they changed the api to kill the 3rd party apps lol.
  - ttepasse 3y ago
    He posts in other peoples posts. ;)
phone8675309 3y ago
Does he still edit comments in the database if the don't align with his political preferences?

halfjoking 3y ago

Reddit mobile web homepage started freezing for me a couple months ago. It happens about 1/3rd of page loads. That was the final straw. I haven't been to the site for weeks for the first time in 12 years.

nullindividual 3y ago
As of yesterday, the logged out mobile experience got much worse for me. There is now a bottom-of-screen popup prompting you to login, advertise on reddit, or shop 'collectable avatars' (who the hell would do that...). Every time you navigate back from a post to the feed, yet another popup. But I've come to recognize this is an intended feature and not a bug.

x3n0ph3n3 3y ago

It's downright unusable to me without old.reddit.com. If they ever got rid of the old interface, I'd probably stop using it completely.