They moved the award button into the spot where the reply button used to be on the mobile app. - eviltoast

Just in case Reddit needed to make it more obvious where their priorities lie.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The point is that they put the award button where people’s muscle memory is trained to tap when they want to respond. Not about where they moved the respond button to. They knew exactly what they were doing.

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      6 months ago

      Kinda par for the course for Reddit. There was like a whole thing a while back about how they were monetizing the site, selling off data, etc. Anyone who stayed should expect this and more.

      Would also be crazy if they allowed 3rd party apps that let you change how you interacted with comments. I think I had one that was swipe reply, so I didn’t have to tap anything at all. Whatcha get staying in a clearly money hungry platform I guess lol.

      That might be my disconnect with the UI change, cause I wasn’t tapping anything to interact with comments, I was only doing that to do formatting, etc, and didn’t have that muscle memory. I do still think it’s a bit “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” in terms of where they’re going to put it, but again, that’s to be expected from that company at this point.