I would have let this slide but I really don't like it when people put words in my mouth. Check your previous post, read carefully, you are the first person to use those words :).
No it is not. You're telling us to use car tires when we are on bikes. Car tires are nice but it's useless for me when I am riding a bike.
> That I'm either already logged in or that I can login in "2 taps" (very dubious, specially for old.reddit.com)
This is a reasonable assumption because, I quote myself:
> Of course I made the assumption that you are already logged in to Reddit, because that's the type of person the usage of this bot is for anyway. If you browse without an account, this is not the bot (or service) you are looking for.
I grant you I did overlook old.reddit.com does not have OAuth. But browsers do save your login credentials, which is even faster.
> That I can search whether there is an existing link with no effort or taps (easier with old.reddit.com, at the cost of swiping, unlikely with the new one), or that I don't otherwise care about telling everyone that I have downloaded the video.
I'll grant searching for an existing link isn't the easiest thing in the world but the upvote system kinda compensates for this.
You can delete comments if you don't mind announcing to everyone you DLed a video. Or use an alt. Or if you do it rarely enough, yeah why not a downloader site.
Again, this bot is for people invested in Reddit's ecosystem.
> * That the bot is going to reply immediately and not make me wait an indefinite amount of time, and that I will not need to manually tap refresh N times to see when it is finished (which is the case in old.reddit.com).
That's why you have notifs. I mean if you need to download this video right now then, maybe this bot isn't for you. But most people don't need right now.
> Does that really change the argument? Would that make it "useful" instead of "shameless self promotion"?
>
> Of course not.
Except it does. If you add the DL link to each of your comment that also happens to link your product, you become _that guy_ who's always provides a link to the video download without being asked to. It's useful precisely because you anticipated what the user would need your services for. I'm baffled I need to spell that out.
If I stuff every bulletin board with a flyer for my computer repair services, I'm just another voice in that messy pile. But if I repair people's computers and then give them my calling card/flyer, they are likely to not find that annoying because I had a good pretext for advertising my services.
I would have let this slide but I really don't like it when people put words in my mouth. Check your previous post, read carefully, you are the first person to use those words :).
> Isn't this basically a variation of https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_QAQumXIAAZ-re?format=jpg
No it is not. You're telling us to use car tires when we are on bikes. Car tires are nice but it's useless for me when I am riding a bike.
> That I'm either already logged in or that I can login in "2 taps" (very dubious, specially for old.reddit.com)
This is a reasonable assumption because, I quote myself:
> Of course I made the assumption that you are already logged in to Reddit, because that's the type of person the usage of this bot is for anyway. If you browse without an account, this is not the bot (or service) you are looking for.
I grant you I did overlook old.reddit.com does not have OAuth. But browsers do save your login credentials, which is even faster.
> That I can search whether there is an existing link with no effort or taps (easier with old.reddit.com, at the cost of swiping, unlikely with the new one), or that I don't otherwise care about telling everyone that I have downloaded the video.
I'll grant searching for an existing link isn't the easiest thing in the world but the upvote system kinda compensates for this.
You can delete comments if you don't mind announcing to everyone you DLed a video. Or use an alt. Or if you do it rarely enough, yeah why not a downloader site.
Again, this bot is for people invested in Reddit's ecosystem.
> * That the bot is going to reply immediately and not make me wait an indefinite amount of time, and that I will not need to manually tap refresh N times to see when it is finished (which is the case in old.reddit.com).
That's why you have notifs. I mean if you need to download this video right now then, maybe this bot isn't for you. But most people don't need right now.
> Does that really change the argument? Would that make it "useful" instead of "shameless self promotion"? > > Of course not.
Except it does. If you add the DL link to each of your comment that also happens to link your product, you become _that guy_ who's always provides a link to the video download without being asked to. It's useful precisely because you anticipated what the user would need your services for. I'm baffled I need to spell that out.
If I stuff every bulletin board with a flyer for my computer repair services, I'm just another voice in that messy pile. But if I repair people's computers and then give them my calling card/flyer, they are likely to not find that annoying because I had a good pretext for advertising my services.