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Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by rapnie »

dimator wrote: post #16
helmholtz wrote: post #9

The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes. As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new…

There's also teddit.net, a reddit mirror that uses the reddit API to present a light weight skin. It is a bit too slow for me, and the features are pretty lacking. I don't think a spartan "no javascript" take is what's needed to cure the garbage that is full reddit web experience. Still it's a good first attempt. I'm hoping someone will come along and create a lean, mean, yet functional semantic reddit web frontend..…

There's also: https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

And full-blown, federated Reddit alternative: https://join.lemmy.ml/

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by rapnie »

reidrac wrote: post #15
ffpip wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They block based on the country you are from. If I use a UK/US VPN, I don't get the download app banner. But when I browse without a VPN (Indian IP), I get so many popups asking me to download the app.

I'm in the UK and I get the reddit app banners all the time browsing with my phone; I can ignore them and still browse the site. I don't comment often, so I moved to use https://teddit.net/ -- probably a temp solution, but as long as it is available, I'll use it.

Just commented above. You can also have a look at: https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by numpad0 »

ffpip wrote: post #4
rukshn wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was able to see small subreddits without the app. I was thinking whether they are blocking only the bigger subreddits.

They block based on the country you are from. If I use a UK/US VPN, I don't get the download app banner. But when I browse without a VPN (Indian IP), I get so many popups asking me to download the app.

IIRC “request desktop site” works

Re: This Community is Available in the App

#34

Post by ffpip »

numpad0 wrote: post #33
ffpip wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They block based on the country you are from. If I use a UK/US VPN, I don't get the download app banner. But when I browse without a VPN (Indian IP), I get so many popups asking me to download the app.

IIRC “request desktop site” works

Yeah, but I don't want to do all that. I stopped using reddit.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by nikitten »

This is bound to happen to all websites dedicated to posting someone else's content. Start building your own websites and online communities instead of relying on brands which are cool now but later will do things like this to suck more money out of user-supplied content.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by jml7c5 »

input_sh wrote: post #17
superasn wrote: post #10

Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? They were pretty cool people and I can't believe they would approve of all this nonsense. Maybe the old team has been completely replaced by evil pointy haired people who don't care about anything except kpis?

> Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? It was founded by three people: Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide over bullshit charges. Alexis Ohanian, who resigned from reddit's board in June this year. Steve Huffman (AKA spez) who's still around as a CEO. But nowadays the latter two try to erase Swartz's legacy ( https://i.imgur.com/a3dARxi.jpg ).

I'm pretty sure there's more nuance to this story than you're suggesting.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by itronitron »

From the post title, I was expecting this to be about an application the author created in which the community of users and devs is accessible from within the application itself.

So for example, if you are using Blender then there is a tab for viewing recent posts, or Q&A by fellow users of the application.

I wonder why no one does that.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by rcxdude »

input_sh wrote: post #17
superasn wrote: post #10

Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? They were pretty cool people and I can't believe they would approve of all this nonsense. Maybe the old team has been completely replaced by evil pointy haired people who don't care about anything except kpis?

> Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? It was founded by three people: Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide over bullshit charges. Alexis Ohanian, who resigned from reddit's board in June this year. Steve Huffman (AKA spez) who's still around as a CEO. But nowadays the latter two try to erase Swartz's legacy ( https://i.imgur.com/a3dARxi.jpg ).

Swartz was not a co-founder, their companies merged 6 months later (undeniably however he was heavily involved in the early days of reddit)

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by bserge »

rukshn wrote: post #3
ffpip wrote: post #2

I can't even view comments without downloading the app. All NSFW posts are behind a app wall ("use anonymous mode in app to view porn"). They know it will get people to download the app. All subreddits are behind an app wall. All live streams too, but since I don't care about them, I ain't complaining.

I was able to see small subreddits without the app. I was thinking whether they are blocking only the bigger subreddits.

How long have you scrolled? Ime, you can view only like a dozen posts, then it requires you to log in. Same for comments. Bigger subreddits seem blocked right away.

They chose the Pinterest model, and unlike Pinterest, Reddit actually has good content.

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