I just don't understand reddit's UI. I'd probably use the subreddit's I join a lot more if their forum features were more like HN & lobsters.
> ...it does a full page reload, now showing you only that subthread!
Some times expands in place, some times link to new page. Since I can't predict what will happen, I rarely drill down into threads.
I lurk on r/awww and the like. (Mental therapy during the apocolypse.) I have no idea why OC is shown or not. Further, the UI for submitting posts is turrible. I legit have no idea what will happen. So I've stopped trying.
I wouldn't mind using a native or 3rd party client. Shit, I cut my teeth on CompuServe, BIX, FidoNet, etc. They had thriving ecosystem of offline clients. But the reddit clients I've tried just haven't gelled with me. (Didn't care enough to think about it too much.)
Now that I'm using Firefox regularly again, I may try Reddit Enhancement Suite again.
> Some times expands in place, some times link to new page
Yes, you're right actually, and in a way it's worse than always loading a new page, simply because it's so unpredictable. I mean... who the hell thinks this stuff up?
Hadn't heard of the Reddit Enhancement Suite - if it drops some of the bullshit, I'll happily give it a try.
As an aside, I also started out on CompuServe, towards the late 90s! I was on dialup of course, but I actually used to love the CompuServe UI! When Netscape Navigator showed up and the World Wide Web was just starting to become a thing, I remember thinking it was a bit shit: "wtf is going to want this when CompuServe is available?!". Didn't I turn out to be so, so wrong!
If it's any consolation, I have always hated HTML and adjacent. Initially, it was such a huge leap backwards, like giving yourself a lobotomy. I just didn't get the appeal. As a better gopher, absolutely, sign me up. But the next hypertext & multimedia platform? HA! We already had awesome multimedia and hypertext. I expected the Next Thing, not some punk's brain dead IMG tag, blink, and marque scroll.
Shows what I know.
My very first "web" project, in 1998, was dual publishing product catalogs to CD-ROM and online. What the kids today call "static site generators." (Wrestling with Netscape App Server and JRunner cemented my hatred of the web.) I treated URLs as just another UNC; pathnames are pathnames, right? I just didn't grasp the impact domain names would have.
I eventually concluded that the magic sauce was URLs, built on top of DNS, begating "the web".
That took me a really long time to appreciate. Its failings -- broken links, one-way links, link rot -- were also its strengths.
I've been run over time and again by "worse is better." So many times, that I can't help but conclude I'm impaired somehow. Like I really thought Jini, JXTA, tuplespaces, grid computing were going to transform everything. Instead we got REST, serverless, and JavaScript. Like going to a fancy restaurant, ordering a medium rare porterhouse steak, and being served whatever they scrapped off the rat infested dirt floor. And then when you protest, even so much as raise an eyebrow, you're the idiot.
HTTP isn't so bad. I really wish I had thought about HTML and HTTP separately, from the beginning. I actually kinda like HTTP 1.1 & 2.0. (The successors continue to befuddle me.)
Thanks for listening. I'll be out front, yelling at kids and dogs.
PS- I was totally right about Java. Too bad Sun let Captain IMG Tag sabotage it on the client.
I just don't understand reddit's UI. I'd probably use the subreddit's I join a lot more if their forum features were more like HN & lobsters.
> ...it does a full page reload, now showing you only that subthread!
Some times expands in place, some times link to new page. Since I can't predict what will happen, I rarely drill down into threads.
I lurk on r/awww and the like. (Mental therapy during the apocolypse.) I have no idea why OC is shown or not. Further, the UI for submitting posts is turrible. I legit have no idea what will happen. So I've stopped trying.
I wouldn't mind using a native or 3rd party client. Shit, I cut my teeth on CompuServe, BIX, FidoNet, etc. They had thriving ecosystem of offline clients. But the reddit clients I've tried just haven't gelled with me. (Didn't care enough to think about it too much.)
Now that I'm using Firefox regularly again, I may try Reddit Enhancement Suite again.