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An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
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Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
#22I noticed this occurring on Android Firefox with Ublock Origin enabled. Not sure if that's related, but I'm not about to disable it just to see if that's the distinguishing factor.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Learning lessons? They're making their website worse on purpose! They don't want people to use the Reddit website — they want people to use the app, because that's where all the ads and tracking is.
That would make sense if the app wasn't also terribly user unfriendly.
Navigation is completely broken.
For example, I open a notification (the only reason I have the apo installed - this could be done with web PNs) and then either click back or the X, both wrongly navigate back one time to the same message, then close the app completely. I often have to kill the app to get out of this.
Why the hell can't we stick to documents for reading stuff, and even posting the occasional comment?
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#24They've been making increasingly more user hostile choice lately. Digg lessons weren't apparently not learned
They went close to a decade without making Digg's mistakes. But now that investors are involved, they have to start putting up walls and plastering them with ads.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been experiencing it either way on my phone this week. As I'm quite judicious about using "private" sessions for everything I suspect its been under a/b test. As you say, its not present on ud. or old.
Yeah, this feature being part of an A/B test makes sense. Hopefully the results of said test show enough of a drop in traffic/conversions for the variation with the 'login requirement' that they drop the idea altogether.
I doubt it.
Users will either login or switch to old/ud
There doesn't seem to be any downside to old/ud - it retains users that would otherwise leave whilst being enough of a pain that those who the wouldn't leave just login.
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#26They are pretty aggressive with trying to push me to a native app or signup. Guess it’s related to the possible ad dollar
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#27Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone. Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too. Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't…
I just pulled up www.reddit.com on Firefox Klar (Android), went to a random thread, and did not encounter it either.
Perhaps they are testing it with a subset of users?
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#28Googles algorithms should penalize them hard for that... but they probably wont. Random users clicking a reddit link in search results, and coming back after two seconds and clicking on another result, should bring their "site score" down.... but considering it's google .. and it's reddit.. it probably wont.
Quora ... :(
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#29Re: An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
#30Hmm, I just checked myself, and I was able to read comment threads perfectly fine without being logged in, on both a desktop computer and a smartphone. Obviously old.reddit.com doesn't have these issues, but I'm pretty sure the session on smartphone used the new site, and that let me keep reading without any interruptions too. Either way, if Reddit does this, that's it. Not returning to the site. The internet doesn't…
Unfortunately the way things are going I can see them getting rid of old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com, at which point I think I'll also stop visiting the website (the mobile website is atrocious and I'm not going to install a dedicated app in order to read a forum).
ah thanks for answering that for me. I sometimes pondered if i did make an account on reddit, if it then would less horrible. :)