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Or an "old". You can use "old.reddit.com" instead of "www.reddit.com", but you might get an SSL error if you try to use " https://www.old.reddit.com/..." .
there's a firefox plugin for that :)
Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
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#42I 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.
Apollo is great. Reddit should be embarrassed that one solo dev can make a vastly better app than the Reddit team itself.
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#43Seems like this post got shadowbanned. It doesn't appear on the front page nor the second or third. while posts with way less points and comment activity are visible. Also the title got changed from the original one.
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#44I 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.
The twitter dark pattern of forcing you to refresh is so stupid
What pattern is this? I use the PWA with Firefox and I haven't encountered any dark patterns involving refreshing myself.
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#45The 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…
"Nobody goes there any more, there's too many people..."
"The people who used to go no longer turn up because the quality has dropped so far"
Take a look at /r/investing, its the same 4-5 companies and the same boring daily questions.
Re: Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
#46The 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…
Do you have any ideas on how you would change reddit to fix all these issues? Specifically the community moderation and voting system?
Finish selling it to China and start again?
I think a lot of the flaws I've listed are pretty fundamental to how the platform works, it was broken from the whiteboard stage.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Nobody goes there any more, there's too many people..."
"The people who used to go no longer turn up because the quality has dropped so far" Take a look at /r/investing, its the same 4-5 companies and the same boring daily questions.
Well yes, that's the nature of reddit and has been since subreddits were introduced. There's always been a tension between newbies coming in and making identical posts asking identical questions and the people who've been there longer who're bored of seeing the same questions asked day after day.
Usually there's some attempt to ban the newbie posts to make the sub more interesting for the more experienced participants, but this cuts off the supply of new posters and the sub begins to decline. Alternatively more knowledgable people get bored and drift away.
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#48Reddit isn’t a high enough priority in my life to warrant having a specific app for it, and I prefer a browser for most websites. I do have banking apps and a couple of other types, but it just seems like a waste of space just to browse a website.
Pretty much the only reason I have a Reddit account is so I can filter the feed.
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#49I 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.
Personally a fan of Sync for Reddit. Multiple interface methods (list, card, full-page swipe) and other reader niceties.
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#50How could I disable Google AMP for reddit searches completely :)
I’m more annoyed of that than their mobile site.