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Ask HN: What is going on in the Reddit dev team?

6 points by rudian ↗ HN
Every week the experience of the mobile website is degraded further. Threads take seconds to collapse, videos don’t play, opening a post and going back crashes Safari. It’s seriously hard to believe this “$6Bn company” can’t afford to hire an acceptable dev team.

Please someone from the inside must explain why the experience is so poor.

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cunthorpe
The funny thing is that I was happy to finally see Reddit get a new UI back in the day and hated using the old website. Now I find the current situation abhorrent but I'm still addicted to it. I think I spend less time on the site though because I can't open the subreddits or even some posts.
41209
They're desperately trying to push the apps as those allow for much better user tracking.

I actually like how limited the mobile website is, if I need to solely get some information I can generally get it from Reddit. But I absolutely am discouraged from posting. To my shame I wasted much of my twenties on a Reddit ,angry arguing with people. The moment I deleted it I found myself much happier.