Honestly IMO the biggest problem with reddit's subreddit UX is that you can't choose the ratio of which subreddits are most important to you. Unfortunately you're not really fixing that... I think that would be more powerful than showing groups of subreddits.<p>In other words, I should be able to say "I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry, r/physics, r/neuro, 20% from r/foodforthought, and 20% from r/truereddit.<p>Even a simple UI dragger that would let me boost the prominence of certain subreddits in my feed would be great.. Otherwise, small but awesome subreddits have a tough time getting seen anywhere near the top of my feed.
Looks good. I'm always looking for better ways to read reddit. I don't like their UI.<p>I've been experimenting with the best way to read reddit. My first idea was a specialized browser that has 5 tabs open. When you close one tab, another automatically opens with the next unread story from the current subreddit. That way, as fast as you could smack Ctrl+W, you'd get the the next unread story, already loaded. It worked ok, but wasn't great.<p><a href="https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon</a>
<a href="https://github.com/downloads/FigBug/Allochthon/allochthon-setup.exe" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/downloads/FigBug/Allochthon/allochthon-se...</a><p>My next idea was the command line. Now I just type 'r subreddit_name' and it opens up to 30 unread links. Seems the fastest way to read reddit.<p><a href="https://github.com/FigBug/r" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FigBug/r</a>
This is a bit pedantic, but elastic in design context usually refers to a design element that changes with respect to the user's font size. Reedit, has a few elements where that is the case, but I think the term that's more descriptive is responsive, meaning the layout changes with respect to the client's window size.<p>Saying it was elastic actually had my interest piqued, because you don't see many layouts that really respond to text size any more.
For me, the single most important feature is the speed with which the page loads. I have given up on a handful of Reddit readers in particular because i.reddit.com is very aggressive in only loading a small amount of data (i.e. less comments) up front.<p>It would be great if I could easily toggle between two profiles of data loading, low bandwidth mode and a high bandwidth mode.
I made a version for viewing in w3m (and other console-based browsers) and my phone: <a href="http://ja.cob.xxx/r/" rel="nofollow">http://ja.cob.xxx/r/</a> (to get subreddits use urls like reddit. The default is <a href="http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming+truereddit+literature" rel="nofollow">http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming+truereddit+literature</a> )<p>The font is big to make the stories easier to click on the phone. It is missing basically every feature of reddit other than links and comment reading because I do not use them (I do not have an account.)<p>Example comment page: <a href="http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming/comments/15ye3l/scala_2100_now_available/" rel="nofollow">http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming/comments/15ye3l/scala_2100_n...</a><p>The source code is available at <a href="https://github.com/j3parker/minimal-reddit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/j3parker/minimal-reddit</a>
I built a proof-of-concept that I put in the chrome store a year and a half ago that looks just like this. I was just playing with angular and I didn't realize 1000+ users would use it so it's been ignored since then.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-reader/hjeeiboadmdglchgjlimiojgdjoadpol" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-reader/hjee...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/dotjosh/redditreader" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dotjosh/redditreader</a>
Suggestion:<p><a href="http://berbaquero.github.com/reeddit/<Insert-reddit-name>" rel="nofollow">http://berbaquero.github.com/reeddit/<Insert-reddit-name...</a>; should work!
This is so wonderful. First thing I liked about this is the ability to surf real quick. Sifting through posts is a bliss. I am going to skip hitting reddit.com now. reeddit is awesome.
Reminds me of the metro app, /r/etro<p><a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/retro-is-a-dual-pane-modern-reddit-browser-for-windows-8/" rel="nofollow">http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/retro-is-a-dual-pa...</a>
What's the difference between your channel vs. concatenating multiple subreddits in the URL like /r/programming+science? Because the latter supports more than 3 subreddits at once.
I like the layout. One main reason I wouldn't use it is that I can't see how many upvotes/downvotes each comment has, and I don't know how you have the comments sorted right now.
Looks great. But on my Nexus 7 it shows the sidebar in portrait mode but hides it in landscape.<p>Edit: Wow, just tested it for a few minutes. It's amazingly fast, works great.
People should take a look at [Reditr](<a href="http://reditr.com" rel="nofollow">http://reditr.com</a>). You can actually do stuff instead of just reading.