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Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads

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Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads

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Post by ignoramous »

jchw wrote: post #2

I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.

> it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience

Aggressive stance by Safari and Firefox isn't helping online businesses reliant on extensive user-tracking.

Apple controls the AppStore so it is more likely that Apple devices would soon become the de-facto choice for people trying to evade surveillance.

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Post by WoefullyInept »

jchw wrote: post #2

I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.

I'm genuinely surprised they haven't backtracked on this - it completely ruins the experience.

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Post by nanagojo »

jchw wrote: post #2

I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.

The twitter dark pattern of forcing you to refresh is so stupid

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Post by rayalez »

In addition to that google's AMP made reddit totally unusable, after clicking on a link it kept taking me to logged out version which hides most of the comments, and sorts them by "best".

Remember that there's an https://old.reddit.com, it still works great, I use only this version now. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you to the old version (not on mobile, unfortunately).

Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads

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Post by kinow »

rayalez wrote: post #17

In addition to that google's AMP made reddit totally unusable, after clicking on a link it kept taking me to logged out version which hides most of the comments, and sorts them by "best". Remember that there's an https://old.reddit.com , it still works great, I use only this version now. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you to the old version (not on mobile, unfortunately).

Yeah, I thank everyday I'm able to browse with old.reddit. Tried a few times on mobile, but it's really hard to use old.reddit on the small screen. The new web interface is OK on mobile, a bit slow.

Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads

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Post by rayalez »

swarnie_ wrote: post #7

The app is probably the only reason Reddit has any commercial value. The website version is almost unusable without old.reddit.com and a reformatting/feature adding plug-in called RES. I have to assume there is a huge crossover between people who will seek out plugins and people who run ad blocks or VPNs. I'd love to see a breakdown of just how little Reddit make per user on ads on the web based site. This is before…

Do you have any ideas on how you would change reddit to fix all these issues?

Specifically the community moderation and voting system?

Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads

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Post by davejk »

garmaine wrote: post #4
jchw wrote: post #2

I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.

I haven’t noticed any issues with Tweetbot on iOS.

There's a few things it doesn't support (like polls) because Twitter didn't add those features to the API.
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