For those who prefer the default Reddit UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1hrwytr/all_kindles...

Each say we stray further from God's light.

I could rant about how dramatically heavier the new Reddit UI is, but I'd be wasting my time - the people here should presumably know why making everything heavier isn't great

Or maybe they don't, as evidenced by this new Reddit link not being absolutely buried

As a moderator of /r/kindle, I can reveal that in January 2025, less than 1% of our visits were from users still using Old Reddit.

It does mostly attract users who aren't as technically minded as users on HN.

iOS Apps - 36.65% | Mobile Web - 24.85% | New Reddit - 24.37% | Android Apps - 13.30% | Old Reddit - 0.82%

This is much, much less than I would've guessed. I thought the new UI is universally hated.

I should leave my bubble more often.

old.reddit is the only reddit.

libreddit instances are even better (if you're just a lurker)

This really makes my layoff feel worth it in the end.

Neat!

It’s not unwarranted IMHO: you’re paying a premium for what is assumed to be top-tier talent and engineering rigor. It is reasonable to expect a higher return for that investment.

Netflix has a stellar tech track-record.

One bad night and people talk crap. Now that’s not right.

For the people who care about it (personally, I do not in this case, but there is others where I do), this is not just 'one bad night'; it is exactly the sort of event which justifies the premium.

<curmudgeon> I see we are fully into the post-accountability world. </curmudgeon>

At the very least, the customers deserve an explanation of what highly-improbable circumstance led to the unfortunate outcome, if the claim that "it's not right" is to be considered justified.

This is more so a business error than a technical one. They needed to take more baby steps up to an event of this magnitude.

I agree but this is what tech companies have made us into with their instant gratification expectation.

Spotify has always included ads on podcasts because podcasts had already normalized that before Spotify took interest in them. As a result, they pivoted the value prop of Premium from “no ads” to “no ads on your _music_”.

I believe they dabbled in audiobooks recently... just wonder if those have ads as well?

The ones you pay for don't have ads

Perhaps a better way to word that is “30-40% of page loads in last {n} {unitOfTime}”. This also jumped out at me as wildly inaccurate to the point where I felt compelled to be this guy: https://xkcd.com/386/ rather than enjoying the rest of the article ;)

+1

They refused to even confirm if they were using salts!

The scroll performance on this page is abysmal.

Teenage Engineering has a great little board to start playing around with https://teenage.engineering/store/po-20