|
Yea "unusuable" is not goon hyperbole in this case per the Reddit app, picture this website if you could not choose which subforum displayed threads on the one home page you can access. You just can't subscribe to subreddits on the official app and display only your chosen content, which is... the point of the site.
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:04
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 11, 2024 10:19 |
|
|
Heath posted:So are you all just going to go back to Reddit once you either give in and use their lovely app or someone finds a workaround? Nope
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:10
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Yea "unusuable" is not goon hyperbole in this case per the Reddit app, picture this website if you could not choose which subforum displayed threads on the one home page you can access. You just can't subscribe to subreddits on the official app and display only your chosen content, which is... the point of the site. It's very much designed to benefit Reddit instead of the user that's for sure.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:14
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Yea "unusuable" is not goon hyperbole in this case per the Reddit app, picture this website if you could not choose which subforum displayed threads on the one home page you can access. You just can't subscribe to subreddits on the official app and display only your chosen content, which is... the point of the site. This sounds like it was done out of spite for the users.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:23
|
|
|
It’s not spite. Anybody trying to make money off social media doesn’t let people control all of what they’re seeing. This is part of why Twitter and Reddit demonize 3rd party apps. Threads doesn’t even have a following page.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:25
|
|
|
It seems like I can tolerate about 5 minutes of the poo poo that floats to the top of /all instead my curated list of subreddits for things I was actually interested in.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:38
|
|
|
Heath posted:So are you all just going to go back to Reddit once you either give in and use their lovely app or someone finds a workaround? I left because of the third party apps, I stay off because life is better. Feels like when I quit cigarettes. I realized one day they contributed nothing to my life except killing time.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 18:50
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Yea "unusuable" is not goon hyperbole in this case per the Reddit app, picture this website if you could not choose which subforum displayed threads on the one home page you can access. You just can't subscribe to subreddits on the official app and display only your chosen content, which is... the point of the site. Seriously? Why does anyone use the official app?
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 22:35
|
|
|
Heath posted:So are you all just going to go back to Reddit once you either give in and use their lovely app or someone finds a workaround? I uninstalled Apollo at the beginning of the blackout and haven’t been back and won’t be back
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 22:38
|
|
|
Cousin Todd posted:Oliver thinks they are funny, and they are in keeping with his brand of malicious compliance as a form of activism. Honestly these comments just read like "why do the protesters have to inconvenience everyone!" takes you always hear from people wildly disconnected from "the point". John “I married a Republican lobbyist” Oliver
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 22:43
|
|
|
Lol it's a good sign when someone's biggest burn is you don't like their wife's job
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 23:21
|
|
|
Here's my white girl Asian food spicy take: the app is bad sure, but the worse thing was the content. Every single person who says why Reddit is good describes ways they enjoy specific things *despite* Reddit. Your niche subreddit was always better off as a forum, Reddit is a detrimental element.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 23:22
|
|
|
kid sinister posted:Seriously? Why does anyone use the official app? If you try to look at anything NSFW on the new reddit UI in a mobile browser it goes "nope you need the app for this." (old reddit UI works fine, it's just the new UI) That's not just porn but like spoiler friendly content, some kinds of lgbtq content, etc. So anyone from the creep looking to compliment a woman's feet on gonewild to the TV show fan who wants to explain in detail what the colour of a character's shirt really means now has to use the app.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 23:23
|
|
|
there's an app on my phone called safari and it's pretty good for browsing reddit as long as you go to old.reddit.com
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 23:24
|
|
|
Doesn't old.reddit still do that poo poo with sneaking in sponsored posts? The main benefit of RiF to me was always that it never displayed awards or gold, never showed ads, never did anything besides show posts and comments lol.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 23:26
|
|
|
syntaxfunction posted:Here's my white girl Asian food spicy take: the app is bad sure, but the worse thing was the content. Every single person who says why Reddit is good describes ways they enjoy specific things *despite* Reddit. It’s a bad take for sure, especially for the video game subreddits. The Diablo 4 thread here, for example, is a making GBS threads contest to see who can poo poo on the game the most and is completely loving useless for finding anyone to play with. Zero moderation or if there is it’s just to stop people from implying the person they’re arguing with is the r word. The state thread for my state is combined with the other giant adjacent western state and is nearly completely dead. Would a forum be better? Have you been to the official Blizzard forums? Facebook groups for your city? It’s one of the few things that may break my moratorium on Reddit.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2023 23:36
|
|
|
I don't mind nuReddit and the reddit app. But the app is bad for a lot of reasons related to usability, especially on iphone. Like I wonder if anyone actually used to the app after making it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 00:10
|
|
|
why don’t you just use the mobile website? I dont go on Reddit much and I just use the regular website and I only see posts from communities im subscribed to. Am I missing something? Why do you need to use an app?
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 00:24
|
|
|
Big Bowie Bonanza posted:The Diablo 4 thread here, for example, is a making GBS threads contest to see who can poo poo on the game the most and is completely loving useless for finding anyone to play with. Seems inaccurate, it's mostly people making detailed + informative posts about builds and game stuff
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 00:28
|
|
|
Tiny Timbs posted:Seems inaccurate, it's mostly people making detailed + informative posts about builds and game stuff Maybe temporarily, but largely it’s I am Sam pics and people who should go play POE
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 00:39
|
|
|
that was like a month ago and they got probed immediately stg these poo poo takes depend on people just nodding their heads and not actually being familiar with other threads on these great forums
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 00:54
|
|
|
syntaxfunction posted:Here's my white girl Asian food spicy take: the app is bad sure, but the worse thing was the content. Every single person who says why Reddit is good describes ways they enjoy specific things *despite* Reddit. So today I discovered that almost all forum software still supports RSS feeds of new posts. So you can use an RSS reader to make your one big forum or view forum posts like usenet messages in thunderbird or whatever you wanna do. The real nice thing is that anyone still using a forum actually probably cares about the forum community and if they get banned from it. If they didn't they'd be on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter where it's almost impossible. So you can have your infinite stream of niche shitposts all in one place on topics that interest you just like you get on Reddit except you don't need to share an inch of space with random CHUDs and barely-literates passing through. Imagine that. Web 2.0 was such a mistake.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 01:22
|
|
|
a snazzy tater posted:I left because of the third party apps, I stay off because life is better. Feels like when I quit cigarettes. I realized one day they contributed nothing to my life except killing time. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 01:59
|
|
|
syntaxfunction posted:Here's my white girl Asian food spicy take: the app is bad sure, but the worse thing was the content. Every single person who says why Reddit is good describes ways they enjoy specific things *despite* Reddit. Great, but that forum doesn't exist (outside of stackexchange for some of them, and lmao good luck using that) and I have neither the means nor the platform to make it pop into existence, let alone get the critical mass of a useful user base. Nobody who currently runs any of those communities is interested in spinning off something off Reddit and leveraging their platform, either (I've asked). So Reddit sucks but it's about the only option that currently exists for some niches.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 02:04
|
|
|
Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I am Sam  ?it's well known Sean Penn was posting on SA about Diablo 2 from 2001-2003 including during the filming of I Am Sam. Learn your lore.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 02:14
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Yea "unusuable" is not goon hyperbole in this case per the Reddit app, picture this website if you could not choose which subforum displayed threads on the one home page you can access. You just can't subscribe to subreddits on the official app and display only your chosen content, which is... the point of the site. Oh it is 100% percent goon hyperbole. Know plenty of less internet brained people who use the Reddit app on their phone, don’t even know there were other apps to choose from. Now maybe for Reddit there is more power users or whatever the term should be, but I think it’s still a tiny portion of the user base who actually cares. Konar fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jul 9, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 02:19
|
|
|
If anyone wants a good phone app for it Relay for Reddit still works. The dev says he's gonna try to set it up as a subscription
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 02:21
|
|
|
BigSexy posted:why don’t you just use the mobile website? I dont go on Reddit much and I just use the regular website and I only see posts from communities im subscribed to. Am I missing something? Why do you need to use an app? The reddit website, if you aren't using old.reddit.com, shows you about 10 comments before you have to press buttons to load more or load into and out of conversation threads. Meanwhile it's loading other posts into the infinite scroll slot so you get flipped to some other bullshit. So if you're using reddit for subs where people are actually talking about poo poo as opposed to quoting song lyrics to each other or posting memes, it really sucks. Very much designed to promote scrolling content rather than reading information. And old.reddit.com doesn't have a mobile version and is pretty unusable on a phone.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 02:30
|
|
|
FirstnameLastname posted:
He left with the bittorrents 
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 05:40
|
|
|
Klyith posted:The reddit website, if you aren't using old.reddit.com, shows you about 10 comments before you have to press buttons to load more or load into and out of conversation threads. Meanwhile it's loading other posts into the infinite scroll slot so you get flipped to some other bullshit.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 06:01
|
|
|
BigSexy posted:why don’t you just use the mobile website? I dont go on Reddit much and I just use the regular website and I only see posts from communities im subscribed to. Am I missing something? Why do you need to use an app? Apart from anything else the mobile site is filled with banners asking you to switch to the Reddit app on every page load. Konar posted:Oh it is 100% percent goon hyperbole. Know plenty of less internet brained people who use the Reddit app on their phone, don’t even know there were other apps to choose from. Now maybe for Reddit there is more power users or whatever the term should be, but I think it’s still a tiny portion of the user base who actually cares. Except those casuals aren’t posting any content, it’s a tiny proportion of the user base that generates the useful content, and there’s a big overlap with 3rd party app users. People going to Reddit to scroll incessantly through random poo poo are going to be less valuable in all respects (advertising value, generating content, making other people want to use it) than people engaged in specialist sub forums, frequently posting or helping people, often about stuff that people spend €€€€.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 09:02
|
|
|
temple posted:Yeah, mobile puts up a big rear end THIS LOOKS BETTER ON THE APP on everything and I'm not paying or looking too hard to find the platonic ideal of reddit apps. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN SIGN IN WITH YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT??? DO YOU WANT TO SIGN IN WITH YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT?????????????????????????????
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 11:12
|
|
|
dc3k posted:DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN SIGN IN WITH YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT??? DO YOU WANT TO SIGN IN WITH YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT????????????????????????????? This is the worst popup on the entire internet. Every fuckin mobile website I go to covers up half the screen with it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 14:17
|
|
|
withoutclass posted:This is the worst popup on the entire internet. Every fuckin mobile website I go to covers up half the screen with it. On some sites all I see is a giant banner about cookies, giant banner about logging in with my Google account, an auto playing video ad and maybe a line of actual text.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 14:23
|
|
|
SkyeAuroline posted:So Reddit sucks but it's about the only option that currently exists for some niches. There are forums for TMNT, Oldsmobile Auroras, 2stroke engines, and HVAC repair. What are these interests that everyone keeps talking about? Is this some sort of elbow fetish thing?
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 14:25
|
|
|
Internet Old One posted:There are forums for TMNT, Oldsmobile Auroras, 2stroke engines, and HVAC repair. What are these interests that everyone keeps talking about? Is this some sort of elbow fetish thing? The largest sub that I have yet to find a substitute for is /r/worldbuilding. Yes, there's a lot of mediocre writing on there, but there's also a lot that's inspirational for my own project, and I like seeing what others are working on. The decent alternatives are:
None of those have anywhere close to the user base for that 10% from Sturgeon's Law to be visible, and none of them have a similarly broad purview in terms of acceptable subject matter. So basically the only thing I log into Reddit for now is that sub. Most other subs I can find substitutes for, they just tend to be run by and consist of even shittier people than your average redditor (see for a great example: any car forum if you're not a gearhead yourself and just need some help). And/or they've moved to Discord which is terrible for a long term knowledge base. (Looking at you, Warhammer 30k.)
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 14:37
|
|
|
Yeah, car forums are an actual nightmare especially if you’re a primarily mobile user like I am. UX aside the people there loving suck and a lot of the Reddit communities are pretty good about weeding out the assholes
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 14:56
|
|
|
SkyeAuroline posted:Most other subs I can find substitutes for, they just tend to be run by and consist of even shittier people than your average redditor (see for a great example: any car forum if you're not a gearhead yourself and just need some help). And/or they've moved to Discord which is terrible for a long term knowledge base. (Looking at you, Warhammer 30k.) This is a complex situation... making GBS threads up enthusiast niches with beginner questions sucks for everyone, and while you personally might be cool and take an answer, and actually implement it or otherwise solve your problem, 50 other people are complete idiots and their thread goes nowhere because they are way, way too dumb, and lack the perseverance, to see it through in a way that respects the time of people trying to help. It's exactly like tech support. 90% of people are so loving stupid that the concept of them solving the issue they're having, even with hand holding, is basically an impossible dream. So people just end up reacting in a sour way to those kind of newbie threads, because they all peter out when the person, like... can't figure out what a task bar is. Reddit has so many problems, and I don't use it more than 30 minutes a week or so if I need something so I'm not saying this as some Reddit Person, but this particular issue has much more to do with like... how lovely an average help-asker is and not really anything to do with Reddit specifically imo It does totally loving suck if you are one of the few people with the disposition and perseverance to use expert help to fix your problem, for sure.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 15:02
|
|
|
please help how do i post
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 15:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 11, 2024 10:19 |
|
|
Kevin Bacon posted:please help how do i post With an open heart and mind
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2023 15:08
|
|
