<story><title>Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>2 things about Reddit&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;use our app instead!&amp;quot; buttons:&lt;p&gt;1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around&lt;p&gt;2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren&amp;#x27;t sure which button will just take you to the damn website&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I&amp;#x27;ve done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.&lt;p&gt;The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push users to the app: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;minimaxir&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1086002848926593025&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;minimaxir&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1086002848926593025&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;That said, it seems like the &lt;i&gt;really bad&lt;/i&gt; dark patterns I reported 7 months ago (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17446841&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17446841&lt;/a&gt;) no longer appear to be in place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhinoceraptor</author><text>I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>2 things about Reddit&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;use our app instead!&amp;quot; buttons:&lt;p&gt;1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around&lt;p&gt;2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren&amp;#x27;t sure which button will just take you to the damn website&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I&amp;#x27;ve done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.&lt;p&gt;The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push users to the app: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;minimaxir&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1086002848926593025&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;minimaxir&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1086002848926593025&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;That said, it seems like the &lt;i&gt;really bad&lt;/i&gt; dark patterns I reported 7 months ago (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17446841&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17446841&lt;/a&gt;) no longer appear to be in place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eeeeeeeeeeeee</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve noticed this as well. Really annoying. Or any website that immediately pops up a &amp;quot;sign up for our email list!&amp;quot; and blocks you from seeing the content.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t there a ton of data that most people don&amp;#x27;t even use many apps anymore? Or they install them once and then uninstall them or ignore them?&lt;p&gt;I hope we can move towards a web that stays in the web browser. Apps are becoming really annoying, especially for interactions you only have intermittently (I&amp;#x27;m not a daily reddit user, but I go there every now and then, or it pops up on search).</text></comment>