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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by sdwr »

alwayslikethis wrote: post #7
_zzaw wrote: post #3

There is only one appropriate, effective response to disrespect, and that is to not reward the offending party. I made it a matter of principle to not use the Reddit app. Even if they removed all ads and made it an acceptable user experience, I'll never use the app as long as they are harassing me about it. It's simple. Don't reward bad behavior. Sometimes, denying obnoxious people something they want means denying y…

The issue is for every person like you and me, there are 10 or 100 others who put up with this crap, and reddit attracts people, centralizing communities, giving you little option for alternatives. It drains activities from forums, etc, toward itself as it is presented as a more convenient solution. I for one will try to undo my past contributions to accelerate its decline. The blackout is unlikely to work, but I hop…

I never wanted to use the reddit app. Must have caved and installed it one day. I use it now, and it doesnt feel different from the site.

Say what you want about HN, but at least the contrarians bring out opposing views. The bigger reddit subs have a mob mentality that use to annoy me, and now scares me. People are itching for a chance to hate, and pile on from every angle. It's childish, naive, and most of all vindictive and bitter.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by weard_beard »

john-n wrote: post #8

I was part of this test - I've refused to install the app for years (I prefer websites and the option to open tabs for later browsing). It was extremely annoying for a site I've used for 12+ years to treat me like that. It did massively cut my usage of Reddit (which I would consider to be quite high), I primarily access it from my phone and I all but stopped using it for the week or so I was in the "experiment".

This is how I discovered old.reddit.com still works. And it has none of the broken javascript or A/B app pushing code in it.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by wtetzner »

comte7092 wrote: post #30
japhyr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to know the conversion rate that resulted from that test, it must have been absolutely abysmal.

I’ve already been ignoring the extremely annoying spammy pop ups telling me to download the app for years. I’m not downloading the app. I am just not doing it. Period.

I always treat those popups as a reminder to switch to old.reddit.com. The annoyance of having to do that then reminds me why I don't use reddit much.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Spivak »

faangsticle wrote: post #43

> It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude. Wow. Most companies at least have the grace to allow users to opt out of these kind of experiments via a "labs" kind of configuration.

Doesn't make it appropriate at all but since they're testing "will the average user put up with this crap" restricting to just people who went out of their way to go into settings and enable labs would yield really biased results.

No self-awareness that running such a test ya know might make you the bad guys though.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by shmatt »

_zzaw wrote: post #3

There is only one appropriate, effective response to disrespect, and that is to not reward the offending party. I made it a matter of principle to not use the Reddit app. Even if they removed all ads and made it an acceptable user experience, I'll never use the app as long as they are harassing me about it. It's simple. Don't reward bad behavior. Sometimes, denying obnoxious people something they want means denying y…

I find it funny people have been going on this anti Reddit turning profit crusade, but ignore the fact Reddit is pretty similar to Facebook groups, just has much better ui and indexability

And everyone I know in real life who uses Reddit on a daily basis is also in at least 2-3 FB groups. Be it a local mom/dad group, Costco group, the car they own, or something more niche

They’re not big Zuckerberg fans but they’re much more accepting of him making billions than the Reddit shareholders

FB groups also utilize mods who work lots of hours for free. So those who say Reddit cannot IPO because of the free labor are wrong

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by moneywoes »

jletienne wrote: post #29
_zzaw wrote: post #3

There is only one appropriate, effective response to disrespect, and that is to not reward the offending party. I made it a matter of principle to not use the Reddit app. Even if they removed all ads and made it an acceptable user experience, I'll never use the app as long as they are harassing me about it. It's simple. Don't reward bad behavior. Sometimes, denying obnoxious people something they want means denying y…

man I did this with facebook and it obliterated my social connections. it doesn’t make sense from a micro perspective, game theory sucks man i installed instagram in december and it’s so much easier to make friends. I feel in touch with what’s going on in the community

It’s been 1 year plus of deleting IG and unfortunately I feel the same

Considering making it back let’s see

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by marcosdumay »

benatkin wrote: post #17

People don't complain as much when Apple does stuff like this.

Apple customers don't complain a lot.

When you keep selecting people for an specific behavior, you get a population biased towards that behavior. If you suddenly decide you want something else, then you have a problem.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Spivak »

lostmsu wrote: post #52

Is there a self-hosted alternative for Reddit to migrate a single community?

If you don't need it to be a Reddit like experience with posts/threaded comments bad just want the community then Discord is pretty nice.

On the pros the moderation tools are amazing and bots are first class citizens. Events are really nice for organizing stuff, A+ code formatting.

Search is kinda bad but not worse than Reddit. They do have a posts thing now but it seems seldom used and not as nice as arbitrarily nested threads.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by predictabl3 »

I am absolutely blown away by the number of subs that have gone private and shocked at some napkin math of how many total subscribers are affected.

Further, the Discord is well, finally getting a bit too riled up to hear coherently, but is easily the largest live, wholesome gathering of people I've participated in a live event with. And on top of that, numerous people are signing up for Matrix and joining the bridged room.

Lots of conversations about what platforms will go down this same route.

Today is an okay day after all.

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