Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?

Post by whalesalad » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

spiderfarmer wrote: post #156

whalesalad wrote: post #41

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+1 for Apollo. Lots of great features and it follows Apple HIG (Human interface guidelines) unlike the bizarre UI direction of everything Reddit is doing these days.

I’m afraid and won't be surprised if Reddit goes the Twitter route and kills (or somehow cripples) third party apps like Apollo. If Reddit is this adamant on destroying the user experience of their platform, killing off great apps like Apollo seems to fit that strategy.

Post by tootie » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:50 PM UTC

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #93

nokya wrote: post #38

Reddit's obsession to constantly show me an "ad" to install the app has basically cured me from drifting and spending more time than strictly necessary on the website. I hate it so much that it triggers a negative experience everytime I visit the website and I just tend to watch links shared to me. Honestly, I thank them for that and I hope they don't remove it.

Their redesign combined with the incessant harassing app crap turned me from an hours-a-day-and-modding-some-decently-big-subs redditor to visiting for 15 minutes a couple times a week when on the dunny. Their entire site is so user hostile now it’s actually bordering on funny. They’ve become a parody of everything they set out to defeat.

Post by xioxox » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:52 PM UTC

jamil7 wrote: post #5

Yeah ads. If you're on iOS check out Apollo, made by a solo developer and does not display ads. I'm not sure what the equivalent on Android would be (someone chime in if you know).

Post by optimalsolver » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

amiga_500 wrote: post #116

optimalsolver wrote: post #82

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So what should they use as a standard of success? How many Usenet poseurs give them the thumbs up? That don't pay the bills.

What's the point in producing trash if your only reason is to have enough money to pay for the trash?

Post by shawnz » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

Timpy wrote: post #121

nokya wrote: post #38

Reddit's obsession to constantly show me an "ad" to install the app has basically cured me from drifting and spending more time than strictly necessary on the website. I hate it so much that it triggers a negative experience everytime I visit the website and I just tend to watch links shared to me. Honestly, I thank them for that and I hope they don't remove it.

Unfortunately, for every conscientious person that they push away another user is hooked even deeper. Their redesign is insidious. Their page is now aggressively attempting to manipulate you into browsing longer; infinite scrolling, and the way they put questionably-related links in the middle of comments sections is no better than the chumbox clickbait you find at the bottom of bullshit-web articles.