A ddep dive review of the Reddit user interface by Peter Ramsay

#UX

  • @baked_tea
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    1091 year ago

    How (not) to get people to read your article:

    Have a cookies popup take up half of the fucking screen the moment I visit for no reason.

    • @[email protected]
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      271 year ago

      How not to get people to read your article: have a fucking 99 slide presentation. Like what the fuck that couldn’t have been done in a third of that?

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        31 year ago

        How to not get people to read your article: disable zoom like an absolute asshole, and make the pictures and text very small on mobile.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      There’s a setting in UBlock Origin that will automatically reject cookies and prevent the pop-up from showing. You should enable it.

  • @ElectricCattleman
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    161 year ago

    It has some good points. I went through all 99 slides and thought it was rather interesting. Btw, there were no ads in the slides, which was good, because I would have left immediately.

    Main focus is just how badly Reddit hurt their mobile web experience to constantly nag you to use their shitty app.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      1 year ago

      It’s not just the nagging that hurts the mobile site. They have gradually broken or removed mobile functionality to push that stupid app. They even ran an A/B test where they completely disabled the mobile site. When they finally removed the option to turn off the nagging, they lied (like always) and said they had a better system coming and then never said anything about it ever again, even when asked. All they had to do to get people to use their app was make it good, but they’d rather try 100 abusive tactics than to just build a good app.

  • @sirfancy
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    121 year ago

    The fact that Reddit uses a stock image of confetti with the watermarks still on it is pretty shameful honestly. I wonder if that could be reported to the copyright holder.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    the first year using reddit , I only used the official app. Then, in 2020 the video player started to bug and just show black 3 / 4 videos . It was very annoying , so I decided to try boost . Never came back, until…