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I gave up on read Quora when they forced logins I will give up on reddit if they do the same. Isn't visits a valid criteria? Why force a mobile app?
Is there any way to sandbox Apps on Android?
It's really sad to watch Reddit being slowly destroyed like that, one user-hostile feature after the other. All of it for short term gains. For me the threshold to leave will be when old.reddit.com will not be available anymore. At that point it'll be pretty easy. I already spend a lot less time on the website than before.
Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. I'm not a big application design junkey, but it's behavior like this that makes me appreciate the simplicity of hacker news. A few standard concepts implemented in their most basic form. No changes in the name of more user engagement. I understand that Reddit and Instagram's primary moti…
And they don’t want customers who don’t earn them money, like all businesses.
Reddit has some of the most aggressive, and bothering, pop-ups I have ever seen on their mobile site that prompt you to install their app.
Yelp would be second place then. They won't allow you to see pictures in their mobile site. Any attempt to view images will take you to the app store. OK sure, I'll download the app... But wait, now I can't use it without logging in... But I can't login because I use a long generated password... well crap, now finding that menu image I want is a huge chore. Why yelp, why.
OTOH , if reddit unravels we ll probably witness a lot of disparate forums springing up again, which may be good
I started seeing this a few days ago. What is even more exasperating is that the default Reddit doesn't support tabs and it is INSANELY slow. I can stream 4K content on YouTube comfortably but I have to wait multiple seconds to open a text thread. Maybe I should try the Boost client...
At least until only Reddit's new design is allowed, and I stop using the site.
This is why I started developing an alternative to Reddit a few years ago. It was clear from their leadership that they would continue to move towards satisfying their newly acquired VCs (for example Tencent), and do so by selling out their users in every way possible. Platforms like Reddit do not care about giving their users the best possible experience, and that is no longer the basis of the decisions they make. T…
I just made gamedev "sub" there, let's see where it gets. - consider shorter url, instead of /forum/gamedev /p/gamedev or something so it can be referenced in text like on Reddit - I never liked any dark theme so I hope It can be made light - in submit form allow me to prefil link from url parameter and title too so that I can easily post from rss reader - add rss feeds
Whenever Reddit, or any other website, tells me to install their app, I make sure that I never install their app. In fact other than maybe 5 or less apps, I only use a browser.
Reddit is one of a few websites that I feel dedicated app works much better than browser, but I use 3rd party one(s).
https://www.reddit.com/.compact
is absolutely the best view on mobile.
I gave up on read Quora when they forced logins I will give up on reddit if they do the same. Isn't visits a valid criteria? Why force a mobile app?