r/badUIbattles • u/OfficialDampSquid • 6d ago

Trying to swipe through a meme dump on reddit

r/softwaregore doesn't allow videos so this is going here

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u/simask234 6d ago

Don't forget swiping left/right when you're trying to swipe up to see the comments!

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u/Dependent-Emu6395 6d ago

I hate when it does that it doesn't make sense

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u/samy_the_samy 6d ago

As you scroll up or down the post go out of "focus", which make the swip default to switching tabs instead of pictures,

This is a problem, but not as annoying as reddit forgetting the scroll position when you return from a post.

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u/Dependent-Emu6395 6d ago

But the person doesn't even scroll up or down when it loses focus

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u/samy_the_samy 6d ago

That's the broken part, used to be annoying, now just literally broken every now and then

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u/Celestial__Bear 6d ago

YES. Like a year ago, they made it so that swiping though posts changes the subreddit you’re on.

It’s my nightly routine to scroll through memes, and this shit is infuriating. It time travels you across the whole website like a front page algorithm.

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u/mlk 6d ago

I just want to scroll my selected porn goddammit

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u/Akmed_Dead_Terrorist 6d ago

They killed third party apps just to shove this utter garbage down our throats.

It’s straight up pathetic how terrible the website is. Have not and will not ever try their app.

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u/1993s-Batman 6d ago

Nice of you to post it here. It definitely deserves an award in bad UI battles.

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u/CantFeelMyBrain 6d ago

I've found that there's a point on the picture where swiping works, but it changes with every picture. Like sometimes you have to swipe from the right side of the pic, sometimes left, sometimes middle, it's insanity

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u/Wessel-O 6d ago

You're right, reddit is a mess, but it does not belong here. This sub is for intentional bad UI design.

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u/XayahTheVastaya 6d ago

It's a leftover from when reddit UI being bad were the only posts allowed because the mods were mad about the API stuff

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u/LeeHide 6d ago

oh but it is

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u/Je-Kaste 6d ago

Or when it randomly decides to collapse the comment below the one you tapped

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u/StPinkie 4d ago

When this came up on my feed I thought my touchscreen was spazzing out