Scrolldit, A Visual Reddit Frontend
I personally like the minimalistic approach over at Reddit as I prefer minimalistic over sites that bombard you with visual eye candy. Some users on the other hand might like a more visual interface, and that's exactly what Scrolldit offers. It basically takes Reddit posts in realtime to display to display the media of all media related posts directly on its frontpage.
Posts without images or videos are shown with their textual contents, the rest with the first video or image, and title only. The posts are updated in near realtime, with new posts added to the top of the page and older posts pushed down.
Images, included animated images, can be viewed directly on the Scrolldit website. The same is true for videos that you can also play directly there. Animated gifs play right away, which can quickly become a nuisance, especially on pages with multiple animated images and pages where the animated gif is shown for an extended amount of time.
Scrolldit won't display any not safe for work contents by default, but the checkbox is right there for you to click on to enable those contents as well.
The default page lists all popular posts that made it on Reddit's frontpage. A small navigator in the upper left corner offers to display contents of a single subreddit instead. Once you have selected a subreddit, you will notice that you can now select the hot, new, controversial and top listings for it.
The by far biggest accomplishment of the service is the visualization of Reddit contents. That's great for subrddits where images and videos are posted most of the time, and not so great for subreddits that mostly consist of textual messages.
Users currently logged in on Reddit can vote right on the Scrolldit website by moving the mouse cursor over the item to display the up and down vote arrows.
Some Reddit users may like the visual frontend. Others may dislike it for a number of reasons. From the missing comment count to the inability to block animated gifs from playing right away.
Have you played around with Scrolldit? If so, what's your take on it?
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.