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0 pointsTimpy5y ago0 comments

Unfortunately, for every conscientious person that they push away another user is hooked even deeper. Their redesign is insidious. Their page is now aggressively attempting to manipulate you into browsing longer; infinite scrolling, and the way they put questionably-related links in the middle of comments sections is no better than the chumbox clickbait you find at the bottom of bullshit-web articles.

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_jal5y ago

> Their redesign is insidious

I must somehow be immune to the charms. I find it intentionally, aggressively irritating.

I used to lose hours there, but now don't browse around at all anymore. Follow a link in, find what I'm looking for, and dismiss the junk-pit.

blaser-waffle5y ago

Yeah I recall how they used to be different looking -- the ads, I mean. Enough that you could tell they're ads and would only click on them by dumb accident or if they were interesting.

Now they just look 100% like regular posts, and it feels more and more shady.

dageshi5y ago

People didn't need any encouragement to browse longer on reddit, they actually built user solutions to infinite scrolling (RES) years before reddit incorporated it proper.

shawnz5y ago

But I already WANTED to browse Reddit all day... They didn't make it more encouraging for me to do that, they made it more difficult

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