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And then I get hit with the his garbage???
Seriously, the assholes at reddit responsible for this shit should resign in shame and vow to never touch a computer for the next ten years.
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Many (though certainly not all) of those things require explicit permission from the user (particularly the storage, location, and camera related stuff).
When all an app needs to do is connect to a website and cache a few images why does it need microphone access? Also if it has 100s of dialogs popping up users get a fatigue. They tend to say yes to everything and that's how default Android permissions are
What’s the benefit of making users install the app versus just using the web?
- you can track them more thoroughly - you can "please" them with push notifications - you can save bandwidth by putting static assets / the framework in the app and only load content
Is the browser cache that unreliable? Especially when you can use localstorage or something fancier to hold a few megabytes of code.
ideas for reddit replacement?
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).
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Maybe you should try iOS :-) it’s quite different here honestly. I’m not saying there aren’t holes they’ve had to patch [like recently adding a popup for Bluetooth LE permissions] but they are pretty good at closing them.
App permissions may be better than on Android, but browser choice just doesn't exist on iOS. So suggesting iOS to people who'd rather use the web page than the app seems a bit strange.
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Hmm, you mean notabug? https://notabug.io/ Interesting. Seems active too. There's also tildes: https://tildes.net/ (I tried googling them and they're nowhere to be found. Ironically /r/tildes popped up before the actual site did.) And lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
Tildes feels like Reddit used to. it's just low on new content at the moment. More users would be good.
Not every network has to be a bastion of free speech, but being closed minded and erasing entire discussions that they don't like is a great way to build an echo chamber.
I wish a remember more of the context, but I had bookmarked this page[0] because it was an interesting discussion on this matter. As you can see, it's been nuked.
0: https://tildes.net/~tildes/ct2/no_invite_links_available_hav...
Browsing Reddit is so much easier in a mobile browser - at least for me. Allows me to open multiple pages in new tabs and browse them when convenient. Also makes sharing articles or pages to other places easier. I've tried the apps - but nothing beats the browser for me. If they kill the mobile website, I'll just stop using Reddit.
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App permissions may be better than on Android, but browser choice just doesn't exist on iOS. So suggesting iOS to people who'd rather use the web page than the app seems a bit strange.
Browser choice does exist on iOS. I use Brave.
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"Dear Reddit, have you forgotten that I switched to you from Digg when they pulled this kind of bullshit?"
Yes, the people who built Reddit no longer run Reddit.
They just have a lot more investor money they need to show returns on this time.