Reddit's disrespectful design
I’ve stopped using Reddit mostly because I no longer wanted to support a site that has aggressively started to employ disrespectful design patterns. Not only that, but they kept trying to present them in a way that made it seem like they’re doing it for the sake of their users.
And when you land on a subreddit that is blocked you’re likely to tap the logo to go to the homepage. But the logo has been made to link to the registration page. This gives the impression that you have to register to see the homepage as well.
First of all, only the top comment will be shown. Then you can tap view more which will load another two. But you cannot open all the comments.
When they added online indicators they added a way to hide your online status. Something that pretty much every chat application has. But keeping true to their disrespectful form, you don’t set your status to offline, you set your status to “Hiding”. An obvious attempt to effectively shame people into using it.
This must have been an intentional design choice. They must have known that making the results look the same as regular posts. They must have also know that users would click on them without having any intention to view the ad. They even have the comments and votes button. The only differences are the “Promoted” text. The action button is a recent addition.
