Maybe it's broken on the L Preview? Nk26 on Oct 16, parent prev next [—]. Hopefully now bug fixes will come much faster. Though hopefully Reddit will avoid making changes that break Alien Blue now that it's the official app, which should cut down on the bugs. Title misleading. Presumably there are more popular unofficial reddit apps out there when you start counting Android. There are comment chains in random threads of default subs where Alien Blue and Reddit is Fun users announce their sides, and it is definitely overwhelmingly AB.
MrBra on Oct 16, prev next [—]. Just a note to check if there are any like-minded people: Everytime I approach Reddit, I got a feeling of being overwhelmed by the interface complexity, to the point that a part of me wants to know more and finally get to use it, and another part, simply feels frustrated. The latter has always won so far, even after forcing me to create an account. It just doesn't click with me. And I don't want to read no freaking guide, because a clearly done interface needs no guide.
Anyone feels like that? Is there a particular piece that you find confusing? I've never had any trouble, and it never really occurred to me that other people might.
Upvote, downvote, click reply to reply to a comment. Scroll down to see more. You can pretty much ignore everything else if you want to. MrBra on Oct 23, root parent next [—].
For first: all those categories at the top of the page: who creates them? Are they the most active or are just random or arbitrarily selected? When did I subscribe? I don't even have an acocount! What the hell are sub reddits anyway? Then I look to the right and I see: "multireddit of your subscription"? I scroll down to half of the page, and among all the headers for news there is one in bold. Just one. It titles "A subreddit for rage comics and other memes with a girly slant. But the item just before it has And it's not bold.
That was the only bold one in the page. How do I know? Does this gather pics from all the sub reddits, or it just that single place where you go posting pics? Is this some sort of chan-like area then? Why can't I find answers to all these questions just by looking at the screen!?? Ok, anyway I notice that now we have an "r" in the URL which stands for? Let's have a guess: Reddit. But it only appears in sub-reddits.
Ok let's calm down and not be too picky here I might want to post a pic. I look to the right, there is a ridiculous amount of small sized lines of text about posting rules. Ok, well can't you just say "hey anything depicting violence, abuse, blablabla - same old stuff - is not allowed here?
I understand that I am on "popular" selection right now, let's go to "ALL". No wait, that is not a switch for selecting that. What is it then? I click it, I get the same thing, and I am not offered any option to see what I might alternatively get. Ok let's click one of those categories up above. Let's pick "AskScience". Ok new graphic. Am I still on Reddit? What the? Is this a forum? And then I leave. MrBra on Oct 26, root parent next [—]. And I hadn't visited settings page yet. MrBra on Nov 5, root parent next [—].
I just subscribed to a subreddit and now I am told that I can show my "flair" on that subreddit. What is a flair? Then, a row below, I'm shown "what it does look like". What I see? My username. Way to go. Also, it's not a language problem. I am looking at my country's localized version of Reddit and that word has intentionally not been translated.
If you're logged in, I think the ones at the top are the ones you're subscribed to. If you're not logged in, they might just be randomly selected popular ones? I honestly have no idea, I never look at it. Everyone is automatically subscribed to the same default subreddits when they make an account. If you weren't subscribed to anything there would be nothing on your front page.
The alternative to automatically doing this would be what Twitter does when you create an account, where they show you a bunch of users and ask you to follow a few. I prefer Reddit's approach of just signing you up for stuff that most people seem to like. I would just ignore multireddits.
They aren't particularly useful and you won't see them very much if you don't use them. I don't even know how you got there from the front page. No idea why only some are in bold, I guess the mods of each subreddit had the option of including bold text when they wrote the summary, and most decided not to. It is a single place where you can submit pictures. Why can't you find answers by looking at the screen? I mean it says right on the side: "A place to share photographs and pictures. I don't really know why you're concerned with the URL though, you can get around easily by clicking links and ignoring URLs, like with most websites.
Yes, subreddits are forums. I guess there are a lot of rules for posting, but you can easily get a feel for the site without reading any rules by just looking at the content before you post anything.
I think maybe you're focusing too much on trying to understand every detail before you look at the content? When you click on "AskScience" don't read through all the rules, just look at the page. Oh look, a question about how schizophrenia drugs work, that's interesting, I'll click on that. And there's a bunch of comments discussing it. You click on "pics", oh cool, a picture of a protest in Hungary, I'll click on the comments to see what people have to say about it.
Wikipedia has a million rules about editing and maintaining and vandalizing and whatnot, but you don't have to read a single one to enjoy the content.
Just look at the front page and click on stuff that is interesting. If you find that the front page has too many funny pictures and not enough science articles for your tastes, then start using subreddits.
Same as with a news site, if you just want to read world news then you click on the world section. If you want all news then you stay on the front page. MrBra on Nov 2, root parent next [—]. I appreciate the time you took to write this. Of course I could figure out every single feature if I spent a T time on it.
And of course sometimes I've just used the focus-on-content-only approach. But, my point is that when I look at it, it just seems too much over-engineered. Maybe UI-wise only? Maybe feature wise too?
I don't know! And if I had to know, it meant that I had to go through it, which is exactly what I don't want to be required to when getting accustomed with an environment! Ask yourself, if you were to implement a new Reddit, would you make it like it is now? I would simplify it a lot.
Maybe it's not the perfect example but for a complexity-wise comparison, consider StackOverflow. It is complex and it covers a lot of tiny details.
Sometimes I'm just really amazed at how well every little single feature is designed. But it never gets in your way. Every "hey-you-should-know-this" only comes up when really necessary, making a new user's familiarization process a very progressive experience.
If both those sites were Swiss Army knives, to me Reddit would present itself with all of its non-standard weird mini-tools opened up, to the point where while I'd be looking for the one I need, I would be asking myself "why I'm being told that I need this or that? I go for the second type :. Use reddit enhancement suite RES. Create an account and unsubscribe from everything that you don't like. Then visit directly the subs you are interested in google for list of great subreddits or be meta and search reddit for the best subreddits.
I don't see how Reddit's interface is any more complicated than Hacker News, except maybe for the "expando" buttons to display images in-page. Could part of the problem be that each subreddit can set its own CSS? Reddit launched their own first app just last month. I wonder if they'll be closing down AMA now that they've negotiated this deal.
It seems that their AMA app is targeted at non-Reddit users and will coexist with this new one. Indeed, it has a completely different target. In fact, it was built as an experiment to see what could be built using reddit data without being Yet Another reddit Browser. Any word on whether it will be open sourced? It's effectively closed-source. Oh, you're right, I didn't even look at the dates :x My hope's that it gets open sourced, but I haven't heard anything in either direction about it.
I'm reminded of the time when Twitter bought Tweetie and its developer to make it its official iOS app. Sure hope it won't follow similar paths. What happened? PiracyIsAwesome on Oct 17, prev next [—]. Reddit is complete garbage , filled with heavy moderation from all sides , your mods , your admins , your mod bots , and the community of reddit , and finally the shadow bans designed to waste your time for a LOL.
It's the absolute worst place to post anything you want to say. I don't know why people keep using it. Reddit also likes to spam top youtube videos with solicitation attempts to get people to go to reddit. Congratulations to the developer.
Congrats to Alien Blue,their app is great! Now Jase can make it even more awesome. Flow is a really good Android reader. Undisclosed figure of Reddit Gold. Ok, I shouldn't complain, but I originally chose the iAlien app only to run into the scam that that developer put on by claiming a takedown based on the name by Alien Blue IIRC, I'll try and provide a source if someone requests it requiring users to buy the new app.
I was really happy with iAlien, but I wasn't going to pay the extortion for the "new" app. I do trust that reddit is a good thing, so I'm probably set from here on out. Alien Blue is a good app so I'm happy for Jase the developer and I forget why I originally chose iAlien over Alien Blue now, but hopefully we get some good advancements in the mobile interface which is my primary means of accessing reddit.
JustinAiken on Oct 16, parent next [—]. Yes, I know that and that wasn't my point. And neither does Alien Blue for that matter. My point was that I didn't want to pay for iAlien's "new app" which was anything but a new app. I am happy to pay for new features, but there weren't any new features and the iAlien developer was claiming he had to re-submit the app and require everyone to re-buy the Pro features due to IIRC Alien Blue claiming naming issues which seemed pretty suspicious to me.
And now I just went to the app store to check on iAlien and it appears to be available again as iAlien and has been updated. Maybe whatever the problem was was resolved and it wasn't actually a problem in the first place? Apparently some iAlien lovers with their head in the sand are harassing me here ;. You are being downvoted because iAlien and their alleged scam has nothing to do with the discussion of the topic, which is Alien blue getting acquired.
Well, my point was about trying to choose a good reddit client, making the wrong choice of iAlien and why that choice ended up being wrong , ending up with Blue Alien and being happy with it in the end only to find out that I need to be on high alert to ensure I'm not charged again to get the same functionality that I've paid for twice. I understand that the scam that was iAlien isn't really anything to do with Alien Blue I've mentioned numerous times that I'm now happy with Alien Blue , but that the quote: "Our whole philosphy has been to give our users choice.
The point being that I'm someone who seeks an informed opinion, not making a reddit client or any other client decision lightly, but still got burned. I get the "freedom to choose", but the fact that iAlien was a scam means that more visibility on the "bad" actors here would be useful for users. I just wish that a downvote would require a reason for the downvote instead of just a "shut that guy down.
I don't know anything about the scam, but I find iAlien crashes all the bloody time on my iPad. The nagging "leave a review" notification has never endeared me to it either. I'd be curious to hear more about the scam, if you have a source on hand. Ok, I've been looking for a link but I'm not finding one. I'll continue to look, but I'll explain my experience in the mean time.
Probably at the cost of some karma without explanation ; But here goes anyway. Originally I was looking for a reddit mobile app and tried Alien Blue and iAlien, not the "pro" version of either, but I chose iAlien, used the trial for a bit, then bought the pro version. At some point there was an "upgrade" link inside the app that pointed to a new, renamed app with an explanation that "someone" had asked Apple to pull the original iAlien app based on the name?
A comment either under the original iAlien or under the new name claimed that the developer had pulled this before. So I was reluctant to buy the new app thinking that this might be an endless cycle. Instead, I purchased Alien Blue pro and have been happy since with it. So happy that I can't remember why I originally chose iAlien in the first place.
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