Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads

Post by thewhitetulip » Thu, Sep 03, 2020, 8:52 AM UTC

jchw wrote: post #2

I 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.

Post by strombofulous » Thu, Sep 03, 2020, 8:54 AM UTC

kinow wrote: post #18

rayalez wrote: post #17

In addition to that google's AMP made reddit totally unusable, after clicking on a link it kept taking me to logged out version which hides most of the comments, and sorts them by "best". Remember that there's an https://old.reddit.com , it still works great, I use only this version now. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you to the old version (not on mobile, unfortunately).

Yeah, I thank everyday I'm able to browse with old.reddit. Tried a few times on mobile, but it's really hard to use old.reddit on the small screen. The new web interface is OK on mobile, a bit slow.

Post by guessmyname » Thu, Sep 03, 2020, 8:58 AM UTC

fouc wrote: post #21

nanagojo wrote: post #16

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The twitter dark pattern of forcing you to refresh is so stupid

What is that all about?! I've been wondering, every time I click a twitter link in iOS from say slack, I get the stupid partial load and then the refresh message.

Post by redd1taway » Thu, Sep 03, 2020, 9:01 AM UTC

strombofulous wrote: post #23

thewhitetulip wrote: post #22

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I've totally stopped using reddit. It is incredibly annoying that every single page has that annoying popup.

Change the www in the url to an i

Post by tiborsaas » Thu, Sep 03, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

dageshi wrote: post #8

tiborsaas wrote: post #5

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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.