Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by Tainnor on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:31AM (#36255403)

reasons why HN doesn't work as a reddit replacement:

- It has no subforums

- Almost everyone here is in IT, other topics only get discussed when they are interesting to IT people. On reddit, you can talk to historians, mathematicians, language enthusiasts, fans of your favourite series, etc.

- HN usability on mobile is... yeah

- HN is text only, that's already difficult for programming, but would make talking about e.g. mathematics really annoying, and for people who want to share art, that's even more obviously not going to work

- also, I really wish you could block users

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by jeltz on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:36AM (#36255434)

I agree with everything except the mobile usability. Hacker News has some of the best mobile usability of the websites I am using. It is not perfect but it is way better than Reddit. Hacker News is very comfortable to read on mobile and the only thing which could be improved is the too small voting buttons.

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by vesinisa on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:53AM (#36255969)

Thanks, zoomed in to upvote

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by dredmorbius on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:22AM (#36256188)

Reddit are intentionally sabotaging the mobile Web experience to drive people to the app.

Of course, that often backfires.

HN hasn't actively sabotaged mobile. But it hasn't gone out of its way to make the experience better either.

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by Tainnor on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:05AM (#36257245)

I agree that Reddit is borderline unusable in its mobile website, and the official app is ad-ridden, but 3rd party apps (the ones they're trying to kill) are fine.

I find HN a royal pain on mobile tbh. Everything clickable is so small.

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by Double_a_92 on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:16AM (#36258134)

To be fair almost all websites are a pain on mobile. My smartphone is becoming more and more a messaging app and alarm clock ._.

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by miroljub on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:45AM (#36255516)

I agree with you, and that's why I listed some missing things that would help it to be a Reddit replacement.

Regarding mobile clients, there are at least a few third party mobile clients on both Android and iPhone that work quite well.

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by Tainnor on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:06AM (#36257254)

that's a good point, maybe I should try some of the mobile clients

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by Panzer04 on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:02AM (#36255629)

What’s the problem with HN mobile?

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by pjc50 on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:00AM (#36256024)

Teeny-tiny arrows.

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Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark by randac on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:45AM (#36257735)

Thread with many replies, the deepest replies end up very squashed right in portrait, it's annoying to read. As is the flag/dead style but that's another matter. Obviously nothing I can't work around.

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