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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by pixel3234 »

tiew9Vii wrote: post #223
FormerBandmate wrote: post #36

They are desperately trying to be TikTok. It will not work and has no chance of working. Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million (they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers when they had 200 million users at their peak and touted having 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release. Every post is people saying the Reddit app sucks and asking where Dubsmash went)

It's interesting everything trying to be TikTok. As a user, if I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok. I don't want TikTok, so I don't use TikTok. I use Facebook mainly for hobby/owners groups these days as that's where a lot of them are. I sometimes use the market place. My feed is mainly my interests, motorbikes, local events, local cafes/restaurants etc etc. Then there's reels i never interact with which get forced on me…

> I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok

You want some experience, but then you describe how Youtube is forcing you to click through shorts and BS as that.

I think power users should give up on direct interaction with internet. With youtube you can have a scripts that download videosm, and filter out shorts, ads and other garbage. With news you can just print everything on laser printer... Spotify should be exported as bunch of MP3 files...

It is very easy to hire some English speaking assistant in India or Philippines, or have cron jobs that does tedious work for you. I think today, if you see ad on web, or you are directly exposed to some shifty behavior like Reddit does, it is major red flag for your lifestyle. Like when you live in an apartment without proper ventilation or with toxic fumes.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by midasuni »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #4

One month old, but still very interesting. The admin confirmation is here: https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/comment/jim40...

I only access Reddit via old.Reddit

They seem to have broken the back button now on iOS/safari. I’m sure it wasn’t like that a few weeks ago.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by wiseowise »

lannisterstark wrote: post #116
x3874 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are / were they really 'friends' though if doing so obliterated your connections? Most people tend to misclassify being friends with being open & friendly with another.

Yes. Putting people through hoops and then going "were we really friends if you didn't do it for me, huh, HUUUUH?" is a "I'm the main character" mindset. A friend recently deleted all his apps and he asks me I just email him if I want to talk. I'm just not gonna do that. I barely remember to email my work people.

> A friend recently deleted all his apps and he asks me I just email him if I want to talk. I'm just not gonna do that. I barely remember to email my work people.

If you put them below “work people”, they’re not a friend. Or rather, you’re not a friend.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by abenga »

rx_tx wrote: post #101
SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I for one will try to undo my past contributions to accelerate its decline. This is a great idea. I'm going to bulk edit then delete my old comments (I recall reading somewhere that editing them overwrites the original field in the database whereas deleting just sets a deleted flag). Destroys the value that I've created for free for that shitheap, plus it's helpful to make doxxing me harder.

Look into Shreddit [1] which does that for you. It needs API access though, so make sure to do it before June 30th... [1]: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

Can you edit posts and comments that are more than six months old?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by midasuni »

Nition wrote: post #89
jbavari wrote: post #39

Here's a quick solution if this bothers you: Open the `/etc/hosts` in your favorite editor (vim). Enter this line: 127.0.0.1 reddit.com

This is about mobile browsing only.

So put it on your dns server

(google of course is taking great pains to prevent that, cheerled by the DoH hans on HN)

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by frodowtf »

Yes, they did. The reddit frontend on mobile is total garbage and actively user hostile.

Recently, they decided to move you to an absolute blank screen after login. Nothing is happening. You have to activate "desktop mode" before the page loads. Or you have to open a subreddit directly and click on the "Home" button afterwards. It's a joke.

The chat is a nightmare as well. Now you have the legacy and the new chat tabs. As a user, there is no notable difference between those two. I was able to pop out the chat in previous versions into an own window. They removed the button to do that, but it still appears sometimes.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by KennyBlanken »

marcosdumay wrote: post #62
greesil wrote: post #31

Well there goes the last social site I was engaged with, other than this one. I just don't get it when a business decides to declare war in its users. I'll miss the 3D printing subreddit, oh well.

Since the redesign they shifted their focus on images, and well, I don't have any hobby best communicated by images. So, lately I have been only looking at the joke subs. I unsubscribed from the 3D printing sub a while ago, because the good stuff didn't get upvotes, because they were not images, so nothing good would make into my home page.

So many of the subs I used to follow or would use for reference have become a dumpster fire of consumeristic box shots.

pcmasterrace is basically just "check out this pile of boxes of expensive stuff."

The home server / selfhosted subreddits are endless pictures of a wifi router, 2-bay NAS, and a small form factor PC sitting on a shelf (and in the case of the selfhosted subreddit, also screenshots of people's web dashboards for their home server which is almost entirely torrenting / media related.)

My local area subreddit is almost entirely photos of scenery, with little in the way of anything of substance like news or politics.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Garvi »

I remember the weekly rotating "Covid in Russia" threads in /r/worldnews where people were cheering for more Russian deaths. Voicing objections didn't get you just shadowbanned, to maintain the illusion that everyone agrees that Russians need to die, it got you permabanned on multiple of the biggest subreddits. For voicing objections to this vile practice, my 8 year old account got permabanned from /r/worldnews, /r/movies, /r/pictures and another one I don't recall.

All my slavic friends working internationally are now trying to hide accents because people might think they were Russian and have them lose their contracts or mistreating them.

I have since broken off friendships with people proudly proclaiming they were redditors. In history "books" 200 years from now, such websites will be treated as the 21st centuries version of the hitler youth. If you're tolerating such behaviour or denying it's existence, you're supporting racism.

I'm wondering what I'll get here. Censorship or debate?

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by websap »

bredren wrote: post #149
riku_iki wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am absolutely blown away by the number of subs that have gone private My understanding is that moderators are the most upset category by API changes, because they are losing some unique mod features from 3rd party apps.

I use Apollo to read Reddit, but mod using desktop web. Definitely the Apollo and handling of the API changes is annoying. But this was much more a straw that broke the camel’s back thing from a mod perspective. I’ve mentioned this before but I am on the mod team for r/portland and the Reddit admin has been terrible at providing tools and support for serious content mod problems and straight up platform abuse. There…

Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional.

Also, this entire thing about the API has made me feel that there is a future for decentralized apps, where money in the forms of tokens can exchange hands between - content creators, mods, consumers and those that help run the network, without a central entity consuming all the profits.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Aachen »

Garvi wrote: post #278

I remember the weekly rotating "Covid in Russia" threads in /r/worldnews where people were cheering for more Russian deaths. Voicing objections didn't get you just shadowbanned, to maintain the illusion that everyone agrees that Russians need to die, it got you permabanned on multiple of the biggest subreddits. For voicing objections to this vile practice, my 8 year old account got permabanned from /r/worldnews, /r/m…

I can't decide how to feel about this. It's unrelated to the reddit access issue and very hard to believe (the "I got banned for saying it's bad to wish for covid to kill random citizens and multiple subreddits conspire against me" part, not the hiding accents part). At the same time, it sounds bad and I somehow don't expect malice from your side, just misunderstanding somewhere. So idk, I understand that it's hard to prove that this happened and that your version is the full story. I decided to just not vote on this post, but if you're wondering why people are voting this down (at least that's my expectation), I really don't think any one of them are of the opinion that random russians must die or something. Rather, I expect people find it either off topic or implausible or both.
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