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Use old.reddit.com
But that takes you to do the desktop site. Not ideal.
I prefer the alternative not-using.reddit.com
Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site
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Reddit keeps asking me if I want to download their app or Open in Safari... regardless of which browser I’m using. Not every iOS user is using Safari!!!!
I actually wrote some ad blocking rules to remove all of these Reddit annoyances. I've been meaning to submit them to one of the mobile-focused Adblock lists. Here are the elements that you need to hide. I like 1 BlockerX for this: .snackbar .xpromopopup .topbutton .xpromopill
I like "promo pill". That's exactly what it feels like.
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Mobile browsers should differentiate the style of links with URLs that resolve to apps. I am tired of tapping links expecting to remain in Safari and having useless “open in app?” prompts instead. I’m not IN an app, I’m in a browser; I want to use the browser. And when cancelling the prompt gets you nothing, it really feels like Yelp is screaming “NO SOUP FOR YOU!”.
Reddit keeps asking me if I want to download their app or Open in Safari... regardless of which browser I’m using. Not every iOS user is using Safari!!!!
Well to be fair the reddit app is wayyyyyy better than the web interface and works amazingly well.
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My girlfriend is one of the main operators of a small chain of board game cafes here— her experience is pretty well the same as yours. They rely on Google reviews and Facebook reviews. Facebook has even been toxic enough with false stories pushed in attempts to defame the company for money. I haven't heard the same about Google reviews and Reddit has been strangely fair. I just never liked Yelp. It seems like it spoi…
> Facebook has even been toxic enough with false stories pushed in attempts to defame the company for money. Could you explain what you mean here?
It was more that the environment (Facebook, in this case) has allowed toxic situations where less scrupulous patrons were taking advantage of the social network to spread falsehoods for an attempt at personal gain by viral traction. Basically tell the lie fast and hard enough that the targeted party was helpless to defend themselves.
Thankfully it didn't play out that way. The company has a decent amount of respect in this town, and the situation was well documented in advance.
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#275The only redeemable feature on Yelp that I come to often (from Google Maps) is Open Now, where I can fill in a time and it filters for that time. If its close to closing time, its rare that I want to know what's open right now given I've to drive to that location.
Other than that, I get the same value prop else where.
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To be fair, asking this for every single session ignoring my answer that has been the same the past 1000 times makes it a stupid, anti-user action.
I dearly hope my bank raises a flag if I decide to choose a language other than English on the ATM. I’ve only chosen it 9134 times in a row.
Just FYI, this is controlled by the ATM itself and your language choice isn’t stored nor passed onto your bank.
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You're probably thinking of the email sent when they switched money-transfer features from Wallet to Pay.
Was the Wallet to Pay transition anything more than a rename? I confess I don't understand Google's branding strategies. According to news sources, Wallet became Pay around February, and this email was received months later.
> According to news sources, Wallet became Pay around February, and this email was received months later.
I think Pay replaced Wallet when you say as an app upgrade, but not everyone upgrades immediately or automatically; that may have been about decommissioning Wallet after the upgrade was available.
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It's not great but TBH I still find it to be better than nothing. You've pretty much described every review site on the Internet. "My hotel room in Manhattan was small." You don't say. I still prefer Zagat (though it's not what it was when it was pretty much limited to foodies) where it's available. But if I'm in an area I don't know well I still will take Yelp over picking a restaurant on total whim or because it ha…
I looked up local Zagat best in "XYZ" type reviews in my citiy, all the top listings are completely off by a wide margin in multiple categories. Some popular restaurants aren't even on there. That being said I usually use whatever has the best content available
Restaurant reviews are always a moving target because of the nature of the business. So many of them go broke and disappear over the years that some restaurant with legacy 4.5 star reviews might not be anywhere near as good as a new trendy one that just opened up that has no reviews.
Vice versa too.
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#279I can't relate to the negativity I see here. I like Yelp quite a lot. There have been a number occasions where I've found an excellent local restaurant that I wouldn't have otherwise found. Admittedly, you have to know what you're doing. If you're in a food desert, like some parts of the US, you'll need to take those 4 and 4.5 star restaurant profiles with a grain of salt. What I would really like: the ability to sel…
> the ability to select other users whose tastes are similar to mine that Yelp would then use to influence the ratings I see.
Google maps started doing this a while ago, I don't think their algo is perfect yet, but the personal match % has been more accurate than the general rating of the restaurants.
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It’s a matter of time before they acquire the top app or two and block the rest.
IIRC the official app is from them buying AlienBlue, which used to be the best one on iOS. These days it's Apollo. Apollo recently moved some push notification features behind a subscription to cover ongoing costs, separate from their "Pro" one time in-app purchase, so I think Reddit is at least taking a cut from API usage by other clients.
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