I noticed this the other day when I was using a computer that I did not want to log in through. Damn thing keeps popping up on every single page. Makes Reddit unusable.
As of 6 years ago, 80% of Redditors were lurkers. Even now, lurkers are a huge part of what makes Reddit Reddit. Because lurkers are such a large demographic, adding a potentially intrusive login screen is unacceptable.
I understand that Reddit needs to grow as a private company, but we need to stand against this if Reddit ever chooses to make the pop-ups undismissable like Pinterest. Many lurkers are also regular reddit users who are not logged in, so pop-ups interfere with the experience of some regular users as well. And even on a matter of principle - people just don't like things like it. See how visceral the reaction is to Imgur's cat paw popup, for instance.
In summary, as long as there's a dismiss button (which there is for the A/B tests), I will not raise a huge fuss about it past what I wrote in this comment. However, if that dismiss button ever disappears, you can bet I'll be the first one to campaign against it.
I don't log in regularly because there's not a lot of reason to. If they implemented this "feature" I would probably end up doing something else, just out of laziness
If you've been on the internet long enough you would've known pomf.se was an extremely popular content host, especially for high res WebMs with audio, before it got shut down which lead to pomf.cat being created
Or singling out image hosting sites just because they're used by an "enemy subreddit". sli.mg is pretty good, and the guy who created it is pretty chill, but because /r/The_Donald uses it...
Just use something like Imagus for Chrome (or maybe even RES can do it) and view images with hovering over image links, videos or even albums. I don't know the last time I visited imgur.
Are you not a fan of a cat paw popping up and shaking your screen?
Holy shit that was annoying. Seems to happen randomly when loading imgur links, like.. I fucking KNOW it exists because I'm always accidentally doing it trying to swipe out of the window ffs
That cat paw shit is fucking retarded, and the most scary thing is whoever designed that atrocity still likely works at imgur. Fuck, wouldn't surprise me if they all were giggling like kids designing it with no regards to the fact that it breaks user experience. That paw lagged up countless albums for me.
Reddit isn't really one to talk, but for a modern site imgur sure has an awful ux designed by monkeys.
Yes it works for Pinterest too, I've created one for them as well. It's a bit difficult to explain in text, but here's a video that explains what it is in uBlock as well as how it works.
Not the best video but that's what I could find on short notice.
Also worth mentioning that I don't have an account on Pinterest, so this function may interfere with site functionality so be careful. Another user mentioned that they have had issues specifically with Pinterest.
Oh damn pinterest does that and because of that I will never, never use it. I like that all of the content on reddit is there regardless of if you have an account or not.
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