Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
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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
#2I 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.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#3You can still find the older but better web version at old.reddit.com.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#4I 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.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#5I 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 don't think that the new UI is intentionally bad. I can't imagine the team that pulls it off. It must be hell to work there or it's a team of sociopaths. Imagine plannings with power points on how to mess with users.
I agree that the new UI is worse, I'm just baffled by the reasons why it's the case. Probably bad management / structure.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#6I 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.
Slide on Android. Available in the F-droid store too.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#7The 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 we begin to discuss the major functional problems with Reddit...
- Any community over 5k-10k users dips in quality extremely quickly.
- Any unprepared sub which gets randomly hurled on to the top of /r/all will have issues for weeks if not months after.
- Geo related subs reflect the actual locations so poorly its an embarrassment to the city/country.
- The voting system which along with subscriber growth only helps speed up the hivemind effect.
- Finally powermods who seem to treat reddit as a second job, manipulating a large amount of the content based on their own personal feelings.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#8I 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 don't think that the new UI is intentionally bad. I can't imagine the team that pulls it off. It must be hell to work there or it's a team of sociopaths. Imagine plannings with power points on how to mess with users. I agree that the new UI is worse, I'm just baffled by the reasons why it's the case. Probably bad management / structure.
I can say as someone who runs a small niche subreddit, users have been finding my sub at a much increased rate in the past 6 months, I suspect because of the "related subs" boxes that auto insert themselves in the new design.
If their aim was to improve the discoverability of smaller subs, they've achieved it.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#9You can still find the older but better web version at old.reddit.com.
set in my options as default and never ever wanted more