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
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.
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Nice, I love built for mars
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…