A ddep dive review of the Reddit user interface by Peter Ramsay
#UX
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.
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?
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.
There’s a setting in UBlock Origin that will automatically reject cookies and prevent the pop-up from showing. You should enable it.
This isn’t even close to being a deep dive
Well duh, that’s because it’s a ddep dive.
I liked Johnny Ddep in those Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
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Makes a few points on UX, which seems to be the main focus
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.
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.
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.
UX
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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…
Consider deleting you reddit posts, then killing your account
