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

Post by krn » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

mattacular wrote: post #631

krn wrote: post #88

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It increases engagement metrics, which is the most important thing for an ad company looking to raise more money in the future.

"Apps increase engagement metrics" seems dubious to me. Maybe for certain companies and products it is true, but the norm is to have a website and app experience. It is not necessarily the norm to have the website aggressively drive people to the app to the extent Reddit.com does. I imagine Reddit's website gets tons of traffic from "non users" coming in on shares and searches who will never consider installing a Red…

Post by mitchdoogle » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

braythwayt wrote: post #120

I’ve given up on reddit on mobile. From time to time I drop in on it using Safari on the desktop, but it’s not worth it to me to deal with their engagement-ification in their mobile app, or obvious crippleware of their mobile web experience. I’m not pissed off about this: It’s like dropping in on a bar I used to enjoy a decade ago, to find out it has been redesigned a few times and everyone’s a new face. Sometimes, t…

Post by maerF0x0 » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

b112 wrote: post #617

Groxx wrote: post #565

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I... think you may have some reading to do. The subject is pretty well studied. The main reason FPTP ensures at most 2 parties is that, say you have parties 1, A, and B, where A and B are relatively similar to each other. And say A and B are together more populous than 1, like a 40/30/30 split. By splitting those 60% mostly-similar votes between A and B, both lose to the less-popular 1. It becomes in A and B's best i…

Yet, empirically, you're 100% wrong. Canada has both Federal, and Provincial FPTP parliaments. On the Provincial level, new parties appear, and are elected , minority or majority, all the time . Constantly. On the Federal level, things move more slowly. Yet new parties are appear , grow in popularity, and replace older parties . Canada is not only a place of multiple parties, it is a place of constant party renewal.…

Post by outadoc » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 9:57 AM UTC

bitsoda wrote: post #326

leokennis wrote: post #35

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Apollo is definitely the best (as in, it's so feature complete, stable, integhrated with the OS UI/UX and awesome I don't see any reason why anyone would want to use an alternative) but there are alternative's, for example Narwhal.

Narwhal is criminally underrated. It's so fast and fluid, and you always have access to subreddits by swiping from the right. Apollo is good, but Narwhal deserves more love IMO.