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Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit
- d0m 14y agoSuggestion: http://berbaquero.github.com/reeddit/<Insert-reddit-name> http://berbaquero.github.com/reeddit/<Insert-reddit-name...; should work!
- tuananh 14y agoAuthor should add this. As a regular of /r/WTF, I felt this is what reddit should be. Also, keyboard navigation, maybe? Awesome work!
- baquerober 14y agoI guess you mean accessing a subreddit by the URL. Good idea, I'll add to the to-do list. :)
- lftl 14y agoThis is a bit pedantic, but elastic in design context usually refers to a design element that changes with respect to the user's font size. Reedit, has a few elements where that is the case, but I think the term that's more descriptive is responsive, meaning the layout changes with respect to the client's window size. Saying it was elastic actually had my interest piqued, because you don't see many layouts that really respond to text size any more.
- bbx 14y agoYou're right. It is responsive and not exactly elastic. But even without changing your browser's width and just zooming in, the layout goes from 3 columns to 1 column and doesn't just make everything bigger. So you could say it is elastic too in some way. I used to experiment in elastic designs (using em for all widths) but it was clearly difficult to maintain. But the main reason why I quit doing it is because nowadays most browsers' zoom in function isn't only increasing the font size but increasing all widths accordingly too. It's a complete zoom rather than a simple font increase.
- FigBug 14y agoLooks good. I'm always looking for better ways to read reddit. I don't like their UI. I've been experimenting with the best way to read reddit. My first idea was a specialized browser that has 5 tabs open. When you close one tab, another automatically opens with the next unread story from the current subreddit. That way, as fast as you could smack Ctrl+W, you'd get the the next unread story, already loaded. It worked ok, but wasn't great. https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon https://github.com/downloads/FigBug/Allochthon/allochthon-setup.exe https://github.com/downloads/FigBug/Allochthon/allochthon-se... My next idea was the command line. Now I just type 'r subreddit_name' and it opens up to 30 unread links. Seems the fastest way to read reddit. https://github.com/FigBug/r https://github.com/FigBug/r
- PommeDeTerre 14y agoThe biggest problems with reddit aren't so much how to read it, but rather what can be read there. Most of the major subreddits are no longer worth following, unless you're interested in hipsterism or curious about the meme-of-the-hour. The smaller subreddits generally have limited traffic, resulting in very slow discussion. Email mailing lists are far superior for discussions with this size of a community. Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. Software won't fix these major problems. They're issues with the community itself.
- icebraining 14y agoEmail mailing lists are far superior for discussions with this size of a community. Are there some worthy mailing lists for discussion out there? I´ve heard this opinion before, but I´ve never seen specific lists mentioned.
- metl_lord 14y agoI would also like to know this. The mailing lists I'm on consist of calls for papers, low paying job postings, and out-of-office messages.
- janerik 14y agoLooks great. But on my Nexus 7 it shows the sidebar in portrait mode but hides it in landscape. Edit: Wow, just tested it for a few minutes. It's amazingly fast, works great.
- baquerober 14y agoAuthor here. I haven't had the chance to test Reeddit directly on the Nexus 7, but if the sidebar is hidden, you should be able to see it by swiping to the right or tapping the subreddit name at the top.
- janerik 14y agoNo, neither swiping nor tapping the name on the top works.
- telecuda 14y agoLinks should not open in new tabs on the iPhone. It takes two extra taps to close the image/story and go back. Nice job!
- sidcool 14y agoHN has a soft corner for Reddit, which I like.
- tferris 14y agoPerfect 1. Please make the same for HN 2. Comments and their replies should be expanded (like HN and Reddit)
- baquerober 14y agoIt already exists for HN. It's called HackerWeb -- hackerwebapp.com Edit: typo.
- brador 14y agoIs "Reddit" trademarked? Could there be an issue here?
- nwh 14y agoYes it is. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:l5k53w.2.2 http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:l5...
- victoro 14y agoI was gonna say, the extra e in the product name is pretty inconspicuous. I know its probably a working title, but if OP keeps it, seems like a C&D waiting to happen.
- StevenXC 14y agohttp://www.reddit.com/help/licensing http://www.reddit.com/help/licensing
- yawgmoth 14y agoReminds me of the metro app, /r/etro http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/retro-is-a-dual-pane-modern-reddit-browser-for-windows-8/ http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/retro-is-a-dual-pa...
- aba_sababa 14y ago"The most important information", but you don't show points? Sorry, but this is unusable.
- mertd 14y agoWhat do you think about Hacker News? :)
- zxcdw 14y agoGamification has gone a bit too far if points are as valuable as the provided content?
- baquerober 14y agoI just thought that if you weren't able to vote on posts and comments in the first place (being read-only), maybe the points were not relevant to the 'just reading' experience.
- personlurking 14y agoNot relevant in a sense, though what would be at the top of the subreddits would in fact be the articles with the most points. While you couldn't vote yourself, you would essentially be reading top voted content.
- yawgmoth 14y agoFor me, the single most important feature is the speed with which the page loads. I have given up on a handful of Reddit readers in particular because i.reddit.com is very aggressive in only loading a small amount of data (i.e. less comments) up front. It would be great if I could easily toggle between two profiles of data loading, low bandwidth mode and a high bandwidth mode.
- wbkang 14y agoWhat's the difference between your channel vs. concatenating multiple subreddits in the URL like /r/programming+science? Because the latter supports more than 3 subreddits at once.
- baquerober 14y agoNo difference at all. I actually am concatenating the subreddits for the URL. It's on my to-do list to allow any number of subreddit per channel. I just haven't figured out an elegant way to do it on the mobile, yet.
- dotjosh 14y agoI built a proof-of-concept that I put in the chrome store a year and a half ago that looks just like this. I was just playing with angular and I didn't realize 1000+ users would use it so it's been ignored since then. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-reader/hjeeiboadmdglchgjlimiojgdjoadpol https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-reader/hjee... https://github.com/dotjosh/redditreader https://github.com/dotjosh/redditreader
- jacobparker 14y agoI made a version for viewing in w3m (and other console-based browsers) and my phone: http://ja.cob.xxx/r/ http://ja.cob.xxx/r/ (to get subreddits use urls like reddit. The default is http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming+truereddit+literature http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming+truereddit+literature ) The font is big to make the stories easier to click on the phone. It is missing basically every feature of reddit other than links and comment reading because I do not use them (I do not have an account.) Example comment page: http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming/comments/15ye3l/scala_2100_now_available/ http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming/comments/15ye3l/scala_2100_n... The source code is available at https://github.com/j3parker/minimal-reddit https://github.com/j3parker/minimal-reddit
- redwood 14y agoHonestly IMO the biggest problem with reddit's subreddit UX is that you can't choose the ratio of which subreddits are most important to you. Unfortunately you're not really fixing that... I think that would be more powerful than showing groups of subreddits. In other words, I should be able to say "I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry, r/physics, r/neuro, 20% from r/foodforthought, and 20% from r/truereddit. Even a simple UI dragger that would let me boost the prominence of certain subreddits in my feed would be great.. Otherwise, small but awesome subreddits have a tough time getting seen anywhere near the top of my feed.
- sillysaurus 14y ago"I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry, r/physics, r/neuro, 20% from r/foodforthought, and 20% from r/truereddit." Huh. That's a really good idea.
- martythemaniak 14y agoIt is, but I think it's tough to do well. Google+ implements this thing where you tell it how much of each circle to show, but then you have to do these weights up front. Ideally system would try to figure out what you like by measuring time spent reading threads, upvotes, link clicks, etc and automatically set those weights for you. This doesn't preclude giving users the options manually setting weights, which could be another useful signal.
- mhaymo 14y agoTake this idea to its extreme, and you've arrived at StumbleUpon.
- frozenport 14y agoAlso that r/atheism keeps up-voting itself. As a Atheist from birth I find them obnoxious and repetitive.
- donniezazen 14y agoYou should include j/k shortcut for navigating in stories.
- baquerober 14y agoA few people have asked for this, so this is going up in my to-do list.
- lefnire 14y agoWhat did you use to build this? Pretty slick
- baquerober 14y agoIn the Github project page (https://github.com/berbaquero/reeddit#tools https://github.com/berbaquero/reeddit#tools) I list the tools I used -- besides that, it's the usual combo of pure html + css + js.
- amasad 14y agothis is awesome. I never liked browsing reddit. but this is nice!
- matthuggins 14y agoI like the layout. One main reason I wouldn't use it is that I can't see how many upvotes/downvotes each comment has, and I don't know how you have the comments sorted right now.
- baquerober 14y agoI am not changing the 'natural' way Reddit sorts the comments and posts - which is basically based on the result of upvotes - downvotes through time.
- poppysan 14y agoThis is not minimalist in my honest opinion. I can see people liking it though!
- jbackus 14y agoAbstract the backend and implement additions for reading HackerNews and Lobste.rs!
- vivatus 14y agoPeople should take a look at [Reditr](http://reditr.com http://reditr.com). You can actually do stuff instead of just reading.
- isarat 14y agoExcellent and it's super fast!
- arrowgunz 14y agoThis is so wonderful. First thing I liked about this is the ability to surf real quick. Sifting through posts is a bliss. I am going to skip hitting reddit.com now. reeddit is awesome.
- TommyDANGerous 14y agoI like it but I wish they got the domain reeddit.com haha
- PuerkitoBio 14y agoI love this UI so much more than the original. Anyone knows if something like this exists for google groups? Both desktop and mobile UIs are horrible.
- shivrajrath 14y agoNot working properly on android 2.3. Using dolphin browser.