• apemint@kbin.social
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    Just last week someone retorted to me with “I’ve been using the official app for 2 years and I’m happy”.

    I’m still not sure whether I was talking to an AI…

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      I just feel bad for people like that. They don’t understand what they’re missing.

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        I was thinking about asking them what alternatives they tried, but in the end decided it was not worth the effort.
        It was either an AI, or I already knew the answer.

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      It’s a common attitude, not just with reddit or phone apps, but just things in general. “I don’t have a problem with it, so why would anyone else?”

      I remember when Arkham Knight came out, and it was a complete mess on PC. But it worked for enough people that anyone who talked about what a shitty port it was got shouted down.

      A common problem I have with layouts, where there’s a common trend of leaving giant swathes of white space on either side of the content (in desktop aspect ratios, at least). Like with the new redesign of wikipedia, or even most fediverse sites. But many (if not most) people don’t really have a problem with it. I’ve even heard people talk about “having to move their head back and forth” to see content on the website. As though they’re incapable of moving their eyes in their sockets…

      But that’s my own personal rant. In general, people are often hard-pressed to empathize with others these days. Not just in their use of social applications, but of most things in their lives.

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        I feel your rant, I really do.
        You have no idea how disappointed I was after the Wikipedia redesign until I found the full width button in the bottom corner.

        Most sites are optimized for mobile and are completely asinine looking on a monitor.
        Especially text heavy sites where even a single sentence is broken into 2 or more lines, meanwhile 70% of the screen is empty.
        And it’s not like it’s hard to implement a button like Wikipedia did, web designers just don’t give a crap.
        I payed for a full monitor, let me use the full monitor!

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          I didn’t know about the button at the bottom, I ended up going into the settings and changing the theme back to the previous one.

          I do like the more dynamic index, I may have to check that out. I’m not entirely opposed to new designs (much as I might bitch about change), it just gets frustrating when things are designed for a specific subset of people with no options to tailor your own experience.

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        I’m curious, maybe an outdated question. But would you rather a newspaper be formatted like a novel?

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          Newspapers use every ounce of space they can, they don’t leave giant swathes of it bare. It’s not like there’s extra articles sitting along the side of the page… it’s just blank.

          In fact, there’s often more white space on the sides of novel pages, depending on how they’re printed.

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      I actually only ever used the official Reddit app. I wasn’t really aware of 3rd party apps before all this API stuff kicked off. (I’m genuinely not an AI!)

      It is full of ‘promoted’ posts and presumably the other apps were better but that ship has sailed. But maybe people are saying they’re happy with the official app because like me they were uneducated about the alternatives on offer and they’re just used to it now.

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        I’d often see posts complaining about the default app, mostly about how the video player never worked or how things took forever to load.

        Most people in the comments seemed to assume there was just no possible alternative. I was happy to extoll the virtues of 3rd party apps, though I doubt I had much of an audience.