{"id":33159,"date":"2021-07-16T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33159"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:30:42","slug":"reddits-disrespectful-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/16\/reddits-disrespectful-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit’s Disrespectful Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ognjen Regoje<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

I’ve stopped using Reddit mostly because I no longer wanted to support a site that has aggressively started to employ disrespectful design<\/a> 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.<\/p>

Here are examples of dark (perhaps dark is too strong but they’re certainly at least grey) patterns that I noticed[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

wting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I was the EM for Reddit’s Growth team around this time. I am responsible for \/ contributed to a few features like the current signup flow, AMP pages, push notifications, email digests, app download interstitials, etc.<\/p>\n

There was a new product lead who joined with many good ideas, but some of them were dark patterns that I heavily protested. After a few months of this, it was obvious that I was going to be reigned in or let go; I immediately transferred to a different org.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ognjen Regoje (via Hacker News): 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.Here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-16T18:30:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"ca41bf19-4b21-4ec3-8a01-b899111a7190","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-16T18:30:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AykG_GUshTsOKAbiZERpxkA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1836,77,1366,96],"class_list":["post-33159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dark-patterns","tag-design","tag-reddit","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33160,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159\/revisions\/33160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}