Don't worry their mobile design is actively hostile to users too, you're getting the full experience. The mobile design also wastes a huge chunk of space pestering you to install the app. And the official app seems to have been built by the same clueless designers, so you need third party apps just to get a decent experience.
I'm starting to think I may have Stockholm syndrome, I shouldn't have to jump through so many hoops to get a usable experience, I'm probably better off voting with my feet.
There would have to be a mass exodus of entire subs for this to change. Which probably won't happen until the situation becomes untenable. I don't believe reddit's leadership, despite the harebrained ideas they have shown so far, would Digg themselves into such a hole.
Reddit is the primary forum for obscure topics that don’t have large enough followings to support other communities, or have a demographic that overlaps enough with reddit that everyone just uses reddit.
*edit - I should say, without the filter of downvotes, since twitter has likes which is the equivalent of upvotes.
I'm not saying there's a concerted effort (by Reddit or 3rd parties) to sway public opinion -- but it certainly feels that way.
And yes, the site has become horrible for usability.
I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit.
That's not to say that they shouldn't get rich in the process, just that they should be building something incorruptible.
I'll donate $1000 to a crypto address if others are willing to match.
So if you got banned from one sub for some reason, it was the mods. The beauty of reddit is, you're free to take your friends and, in 5 minutes, make another sub which you guys mod. Perhaps you'll outgrow whatever sub you're ditching.
The problem is that you lose most of the community. Starting a new sub is easy, growing one is hard.
There's some interesting elements to the design, such as peers not needing to be in total agreement about the state of the world, so content can be replicated or moderated/censored/blocked at the whim of each peer, and each peer can build their own unique features on top of the same datasets (eg, different tagging or voting systems on different peers, while still working with the same underlying content).
Reddit makes it way too easy for bots to post and act like real humans. It's also way too easy to run multiple accounts to outweigh everyone else's votes and make a post seem more popular than it is.
Because of that, many mods are quick to ban suspicious-looking accounts, because on the subs where they don't, the conversation quickly becomes bots parroting the same thing over and over.
Reddit is gamed to shit by god-knows-who-all, and you can't trust anything on there that isn't a meme. The quick and easy answer is to forcibly mark bot posts as being made by a bot, which reddit won't do for whatever reason.
Enter my project: https://notabug.io
But honestly at this point in its development code contributions are more important than crypto if you can spare it.
Which subreddits?
do any websites look good when you do that?
This is a good point. I never have my browser save cookies / cache information between sessions. Now when I visit reddit I need to tick the "change view" box every single time?
But something I don't like is that clicking headlines takes you to the discussion, you need to click a tiny link to get the actual article. This is still true when you're already in the discussion, which makes no sense.
And for some reason they don't display subreddits' descriptive sidebar text, which sometimes has convenient links.
Luckily, so far they'd rather have people viewing the old design than leaving the site, and have a way to opt out, which after a week or so I did. The old site's not as pretty, but I find it more readable and usable, and I haven't found any tempting features in the new design.
Imagine, even HN could be a federated node...
(Note that the project is Prismo, not Mastodon - their web presence just happens to be a Mastodon profile at the moment.)
Edit: Some more info at these links:
- https://medium.com/we-distribute/prismo-is-a-decentralized-l...
- https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100289732805767260
- https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100237371462435727
> Individual instances might be able to choose between representing themselves as one big subreddit, or as a collection of multiple subreddits.
At some point the new site will have new features incompatible with the old and they'll say it uses too much resources to keep it going.
Well, Reddit had a (mostly) good run.
Pretty much the only thing why I am still using Reddit via PC in addition of mobile app (third-party)
For example, say you come to reddit, you get the new mobile design. You do a search. It tells you no results were found and there’s nothing else on the page but that line of text: “Sorry, we couldn't find any results for 'Celiac'”
It doesn’t indicate that it restricted the search that sub, or that you can search the entire site.
However, if you get results? “25+ matches in r/Perfectfit Search all of reddit”. This is starting at one result, so it’s puzzling that it is not there for 0 results.
The behavior of automatically restricting the search to one sub is also the opposite of the behavior on the old the desktop version.
As a web programmer and designer, I also recognize these as the mistakes of lazy people or amateurs which could be rectified without delay. I have reported several bugs like this months ago, and there has been no change.
That is a bald faced lie. I don't want to downplay the placement of the ads on that screen, but to say that they are the _only_ thing you can see is a lie.
What I don't get, is why lie about it when the evidence is literally the picture that is being captioned. Color me confused.
EDIT: I finally get the joke, read below.
That's what a new visitor to reddit.com would see, as of about a month ago.