Where else would a self.reddit link go? Also, the comments link always goes to the same place.
But the link does not always go the the same place. I personally am always clicking on external links when I meant to go to the discussion page. I would have the main link always go to the discussion page, if there is an associated external link, have it listed under the main link. Lets see if I can get this to show what I mean (grabbed from the front page)
What is the most 2000s thing you can think of?
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Police vehicle rams protesters at anti-U.S. rally in the Philippines
Link: somewhere.latimes.com
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The way I think of it is that clicking on the title is taking you to the content. For a self-post, the content is posted on reddit itself, so the content location is the same as the comments page.
That being said, they've made a few steps toward something closer to your suggestion in some places. For example, if you do a search, the search results behave this way, where clicking the title always takes you to the comments and there's a separate link (with a chain-link icon) to go to the linked content.
Re:How the Web Became Unreadable
by CamelCaseName on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:47PM
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What do you mean 'they'? Commenting from the wrong account? ;)
Last Friday was my last day at reddit, so "they" is appropriate now.
I agree.
The same thing annoys me here on HN.
> If the link is a self.subreddit link, it goes to the discussion thread, if it was a submitted link to a location outside of reddit
The link goes to the content, wherever that is. Reddit was designed to share content. In the early days they didn't even have comments.
You know what I really hate about reddit? The inconsistency of the links. If the link is a self.subreddit link, it goes to the discussion thread, if it was a submitted link to a location outside of reddit, the link goes to that page and to see the discussion thread you have to click on the small 'comment' link.
I wouldn't say reddit works any more than a 'designed to death' site, just that it hasn't been 'designed to death.' It is full of it's own problems.