Why is this app not available in Germany? I can access reddit in the browser, but not install the app. WTF???
Reddit for iOS and Android
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Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.
My guess: AlienBlue was developed with power users in mind and this new app was developed with showing people ads in mind. A major re-design gives them the excuse to remove and never re-add many features and tune the app for a different type of user and a different type of interaction.
Inserting ads into the Alien Blue feed would have been easy. You may be right about the different target user, though.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#183I just wish they would serve the mobile site on the same domain. It's way too much work to modify the URL to get to the mobile site. I don't want to need an app to read news.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I’m not sure either, but I know that legally, they can show that stuff.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or they could just limit it to 10 IPs per API key. Kills all 3rd party clients, but leaves bots.
If anyone can sign up for a bot API key, then anyone can sign up for a 3rd party client API key. It'd add a step or two, but still. Anyway, you don't need an API key at all currently. And they said they intend to support the current API.
That’s what they said about Twitter, too.
And suddenly Falcon Pro was limited to 100'000 users.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zero on average every 3 months is a lot different than zero ever. Reddit is a website most of its users use long term, not some random app you might use once a week or once a month. Their app will be downloaded a lot, and having tens of millions of downloads on unofficial apps is proof of that.
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...
Did you only read the headline of those articles?
>As TechCrunch recently reported, technology analysts at Compuware found that mobile apps are still the preferred means of connecting for most users over mobile websites, with 85 percent choosing the former over the latter.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm not sure if that is Imgur intentionally trying to prevent people from not seeing their "Download our app" banners everywhere, or a bug in AB, but it is very annoying. It's a problem with Alien Blue, not imgur. It just needs to enable cookies across webviews.
> It just needs to enable cookies across webviews. 'just' enable something that has an impact on user privacy?
Seems like a perfectly good thing to have as an app-wide setting tbh.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Did you only read the headline of those articles? >As TechCrunch recently reported, technology analysts at Compuware found that mobile apps are still the preferred means of connecting for most users over mobile websites, with 85 percent choosing the former over the latter.
I did and the last sentence in that article states:
> Responsive websites may help shift that opinion, though that won’t likely happen anytime soon.
Since most of these articles are 3+ years old, I personally believe that responsive webpages are the way to go, especially for Reddit which is 99% text &images, or hyperlinks to external sites.
Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#189Re: Reddit for iOS and Android
#190That's a neat website. Is there any tutorial/documentation on how to design beautiful websites like that.Asides from looking at the source: https://www.reddit.com/mobile/site/style.css
a beautiful broken website... the first animation completely obscures the text.