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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by krelian on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:21PM (#23484264)
>You are killing the golden goose by trying to force people toward the app

I think this is the the type of requests that shows the disconnect between the HN crowd and real users. The majority of users will use the app. It's entirely in reddit's benefit to push the app, that's where they have complete control and can add more tracking and ads without the hindrance of ad/tracking blockers.

old.reddit.com is all I use but some new features (like polls) are already a second class citizen and I don't see it surviving long down the line.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:44PM (#23484418)
Reddit is smarter than digg though - they know they need to keep their legacy and leader users happy - because once influencers (real ones, not Instagram users) leave the site will stop being culturally relevant.

The fact they’ve kept the old site still running for so long (4 years now?) I think it evidence they’ll keep it around. I don’t think it’s costing them anything.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by samplatt on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:43PM (#23484734)
>I don’t think it’s costing them anything.

It's almost certainly costing them LESS, since there'd be less of a focus on development AND it'll use less bandwidth due to smaller preview thumbnails and no preview video... that's probably outsourced to a different cdn but whatever.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by buzzkillington on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:34PM (#23484355)
>The majority of users will use the app.

In the same way that the majority of users use pintrest. Until you train them to close the site out of reflex.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by iknowstuff on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:12PM (#23484867)
You bring up a good point. There is certainly a line, which, when crossed, will nudge more users to download the app, but also make the site unappealing to the point of avoiding it or clicking away. This might be a long-term, difficult to track&diagnose consequence of the dark pattern.
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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by jgsimmerman on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:45PM (#23484426)
Yeah, I asked my girlfriend some question about reddit, and she said "I don't know, I just use the app."
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