The next generation of reddit mobile
blog.reddit.com/2011/07/next-generation-of-re...
blog.reddit.comPosted Jul 21, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC
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blog.reddit.comBlackberry Bold issue:
The Share, Save, Hide and Report (below the points, time and redditor info) are too big and are displaying horizontally taking up waaayyy too much room. You can't even get the display for two full posts on one screen.
Thanks for the work!
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Same problem on my android. share save hide report are too big. I don't use these buttons at all. I can't login, that area has shrunk. This new change sucks.
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Same issues on my torch. Text links are huge and and in a column rather than a row. No idea what the two buttons on the top left of each post are, as they are both blank and non-functional. Only two posts per page, and no way to get to options. The old reddit mobile was just about perfect on my blackberry, the new one is basically non-functional for me. Going back to the full version for now.
edit: after clearing my cache< all these problems are gone. there are a few new ones, like after trying to edit this post from my phone I can not save the changes. Hitting the save button brings up the options menu with reply, collapse, permalink, context and edit... there doesn't seem to be a way to save the changes. :/
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Samsung Vibrant. 2 issues I found:
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The "recover password" link is too close to the "remember me" checkbox. Hard to nail it with a fingertip.
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After I login via i.reddit.com, I get redirected to www.reddit.com
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into these things
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Me too re: redirects to www not i, after login. Android on Droid here
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Same here with Andriod but mine wants to take me to my app.
Also I wish the app looked like this.
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How do I change pages? how do I go to the next page like on the regular site? I cant find a "next" button maybe I havent seen it.
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Scroll past the last post. It activates a "load" of the next items.
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I find the next paging buggy at best and completely non-existent on average. I most often scroll to the bottom and it just stops. Sometimes it'll load up the next set of stories but rarely.
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But not on the frontpage, or not for me in any case
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I have also had it not work at all on the iPhone.
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BUG: In Opera Mobile for Android the gear icon does nothing when tapped...
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Same in Android browser on most pages.
Edit: actually it is there but at the bottom of the comment, so it's often off the bottom of the screen. Can it be moved to the top, please?
Futile second edit: saving after choosing edit causes toolbar to toggle but won't save.
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Tiny Feature Request
So minimal, but something that I gotta ask. Can there be an easier way to go to My Reddits? Like the drop down we have on the full screen?
Now I bow out in reverence of the all mighty alien
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Questions-
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Where/how do you login?
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Where/how do you read received messages?
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How do I access a list of my subreddits?
The upper right hand corner shows a symbol that looks like two blue hot dogs, which does nothing when I click it.
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Yeah I don't understand what that is either. Is there a way to view the subreddits I like. I feel like the blue hot dogs are where the subreddit option or log out options should be.
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I hope they get it resolved, because in its current state, it is unusable for me. I am only able to browse the main front page, I can't go to other subreddits or check my messages.
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Yeah, the blue hot dogs are supposed to be the subreddit/message options. They work on and off for me. I hope it gets fixed as well.
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Opera Mobile on a Win 6.5 phone (I know) doesn't look at all like the screen caps.
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Can we have a way to enable the reddit toolbar on the regular site, but disable it on reddit mobile? As in, have separate preferences for each?
I love the toolbar on the regular site, but it slows down my mobile experience quite a bit. I don't really need it there anyway since I don't use tabbed browsing on my phone.
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Here are my thoughts:
Not useable with opera mini (graphics and seperating lines are missing), but this is maybe opera minis fault, I would hope for a statement on this.
In general I always liked the mobile version of reddit for my phone and I recently switched from "reddit is fun" to using the mobile website. Some things are better in the new mobile interface like general alignment of text/pictures, functionality of option buttons and the auto load next page feature never worked for me in the m.reddit.com version, now it does.
Some things are still not fixed like: In the german version the last button of "hot" "new" "controversial" "top" "saved" will be not displayed, becuase the line is too long and it is in the not displayed second row.
Also in the comments view there is some big text items which say Collapse Permalink Parent and they are like double the size as necessary and also one each line wich makes it even worse.
Also I personally do not like the color gradient from light gray to dark gray in the text posts very much. I would rather see a single color background. It will also make scrolling more choppy for low end devices.
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When I sort comments by 'top' on my Samsung Fascinate, I can't specify the time period (e.g. this hour, today, this week) since the 'links from' section is not formatted properly.
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Has Never ending reddit always been hit or miss on the compact version?
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Yes.
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Thumbnails on the right? What is this sorcery?
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works great on iOS 5 beta 3!!
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The interface is nice, and it's certainly faster than using the main site. I don't see a way to go to my favorite subreddits though. In real reddit time, I find myself hanging out on the front page less and less, so the mobile default to the front page is a little cumbersome for me.
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Once you are logged in, click on the top right icon (looks like a spanner with something behind it). It will create a drop down list. Click on "reddits" and it will list all the reddits you are subscribed to.
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This is excellent. Now i can reddit harder on the move. Works great on my HTC DESIRE HD. Cheers guys!
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I think I was browsing as you guys switched over, and had some weird half-baked state cached. Needless to say, it was ugly.
Just in case someone else runs into this, just going back to my reddit bookmark wasn't enough to fix things--I had to force a reload. Now everything looks cool.
Rock on you Reddit wizards.
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Happened to me, cleared my cache, and then it happens again. Header buttons flat, position wrong, and no gear beside posts for you too?
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It's still hard to login. I almost always hit register... Then again maybe I have fat thumbs...
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i still se the old interface. how come? android G2
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Cache
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cleared cache, cookies, and restarted phone still looks like before
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:/
Don't know if there is much i can do. Hopefully it will work in a day or so
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Ok I was just being dumb I figured it out thanks
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Just tried it out on my windows phone 7, it doesn't really look as sleek as in the picture, there's big grey box were it should be blue. This is probably something to do with my phones browser though.
Is there any specific Reddit app for Windows Phone 7 being developed?
Alien News is a good app. It's not "official" (I think) but it works really well. There's a free version (ads) and a paid ($2-3 or so), and it works really well.
The bad news is that I'm running the Mango Beta (with its significantly improved browser), and it doesn't work so well with the new mobile site. Oh well, I guess that's the tax for having something that's just a blip on the market share numbers. Anyway- I whole-heartedly recommend Alien News as a WP7 reddit app.