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Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by freehunter »

jbob2000 wrote: post #43
alexcharlie wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Countries can lean on Google and Apple and say "Get this app out of my country." We are rolling out one by one so that we can stay on top of the content reports. Reddit has a lot of potentially controversial content and countries have various levels of sensitivity to that. It would be counter productive to go global now, get banned in a bunch of places, and then have to fight protracted battles in a bunch of differen…

This doesn't make any sense. If they would ban the app, wouldn't they also ban the website? Secret is a different case, the purpose of the app is to anonymous communication, I can see why Brazil has a problem with it (mass protests recently, protestors probably using secret, amongst other things)

Didn't Russia ban Reddit for some mushroom thing?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by freehunter »

jscheel wrote: post #30
asd wrote: post #25

I think I now know why Reddit was so generous with all of the Gold. The app, although very fast and responsive on iOS, lacks many of the features that Alien Blue had. I could find zero integrations with any third party services. The cool thing about Alien Blue is, if I was a stoplight and didn't have time to read a linked article, I'd just add it to Pinboard and get back to it later. Another major failing - there isn…

I know Alien Blue is feature-packed, but I have always found it difficult to use.

The only thing I ever struggled with in AB was trying to visit a specific subreddit. Having to go back to the menu and scroll through all of my subscribed subs (which didn't seem to be sorted in any particular order, and included many subs I used to subscribe to years ago but don't anymore) to find the "enter subreddit manually" button was not terribly intuitive.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by freehunter »

sn0v wrote: post #74
ProAm wrote: post #68

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The problem is no one really uses apps anymore. Especially to view a website when you already have a mobile app that does that for you (your browser). This feature is 3 years too late in my mind to be a needle mover.

> The problem is no one really uses apps anymore This might be a bit of a generalization. People tend to use apps for websites they visit very frequently (eg more than 2-3x a day). Even more so when the mobile version of the website is rife with bugs and/or limitations. Reddit's mobile site is passable but the third party apps blow it out of the water on both iOS and Android.

Supporting anecdote: my wife won't use Windows Phone or Windows tablets because the Pinterest app apparently sucks on those platforms.

Counter anecdote: I refuse to use the Facebook app on iOS because it takes like 500mb and the website works about 90% the same.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#174

Post by reitoei »

harryf wrote: post #149
eloisant wrote: post #146

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Looks like the classical: * Developer makes a great app so they acqui-hire him * For the next app they want to do it "their way" so they have managers and marketing people telling him and other devs what to do * The resulting app is the same that if they had done it from scratch without the acqui-hire (but with one less competitor)

But lots of people got to feel important along the way and that's what matters

Managers gotta get paid yo

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by ProAm »

iLoch wrote: post #144
ProAm wrote: post #122

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16% of people use an app more than twice [1] 26% of apps are only opened once [2] [1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/16-percent-of-mobile-use... [2] http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/21/app.engagement.gah...

Nice strawman you're building there. We're talking about reddit, a unicorn by most standards - at least in terms of user base. This isn't some random app with no promotion or user base.

Im not building a strawman, Im just saying it's very late in the mobile game for reddit to build an app and expect it to 1) be good and 2) get used. it was about 5-6 years ago that 'apps' were the popular big thing and companies needed to have them. Reddit is a mostly text and image based website, the features it uses do not need a native app framework around it for them to continue to be popular. They should have focused more on making the mobile web experience better instead of building an app. They already have a strong web presence, use that to your advantage instead of shifting their focus to an app store somehwhere. Again back to my original post, its 3-4 years too late for this to be a needle mover for them and with their latest round of fundraising they need needle movers.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#176

Post by NotOscarWilde »

quarterto wrote: post #170
jedrek wrote: post #162

My favorite part of this app is how they only released it in three countries, because nothing says "front page of the internet more" than a good ol' geo-lock.

This was explained in the original announcement thread. It'd be easy for a bunch of countries to turn round to Apple/Google and say "we don't want this app in our country", especially given the... breadth of Reddit's content. They're rolling out slowly to reduce the amount of firefighting they have to do. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4dqxgt/reddi...

How often do EU countries do that? African countries? South American countries (except maybe Brazil)? As somebody from an excluded country (in the EU) that has zero history of app censorship, this rings quite hollow to me. In fact it is almost insulting, given that you bundle some freedom-loving countries in one bag with Russia and China.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by germanier »

kuschku wrote: post #154
girvo wrote: post #148

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> That's quite far from censoring but rather Reddit censoring itself. While you're completely correct, and this case is exactly that, the end result is the same isn't it?

Not really, because reddit had a choice not to censor itself. The result would have been that /r/watchpeopledie would be not findable in German Google with safe search on, and that it would be blocked in all schools, and if you install a family blocker software at home.

I'm not sure but I thought that Google doesn't show websites listed in the BPJM-Modul at all in Germany, even with safe search off. Does anyone know whether this is documented somewhere?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by germanier »

Lawtonfogle wrote: post #169
kuschku wrote: post #154

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Not really, because reddit had a choice not to censor itself. The result would have been that /r/watchpeopledie would be not findable in German Google with safe search on, and that it would be blocked in all schools, and if you install a family blocker software at home.

Reddit really has a really hard to follow rule as to what content is or isn't allowed.

The point here is that the subreddit works fine almost everywhere in the world. Just if you try accessing it with a German IP Reddit voluntarily decided not to return content.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#180

Post by tazjin »

notatoad wrote: post #38
Mithaldu wrote: post #21

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Wow, "anywhere" makes it actively worse.

I remember Google doing the same thing when they launched their "Chromebooks are for everyone" ad campaign - you could only purchase one in the UK or the US. It's like companies are actively trying to annoy the region's they geo-block.

Google still loves doing this with Chromebooks. They have human-translated marketing websites for the Pixel in Norway and their buy button is just greyed out.
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