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Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by bserge »

exophoric wrote: post #7

Are they really forcing us to use the app for maximizing user engagement? I tend to think they can syphon more user data from an app than from a browser and that would be their motivation. While I have my tinfoil hat on, let's continue. I think reddit gradually degraded the mobile browser experience on purpose to push users toward the app. Seriously, how hard is it to show an image without clipping it? Images were fu…

They can't push notifications without an app, so yeah. Install the app and it's a neverending stream of bullshit, so no, thanks.

Getting rather fed up with Google's random news/articles (I'm guessing paid by advertisers?), although I know I can disable that, I just forgot where. I think I enabled it when setting up Assistant.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by offtop5 »

helmholtz wrote: post #9

The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes. As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new…

Reddit is where nuance goes to die.

It's about who ever yells loudest. At a point I lacked the energy to keep using it, like I don't use social media or online dating. Life is very short, and they put you in a box at it's end. No one's box has their Reddit karma count on it.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by beloch »

Recommendation:

If you prefer old.reddit.com to the new, try the RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) add-on for Firefox mobile. It seems to be unaffected by these changes.

There are better ways to use reddit on mobile, but the reddit app isn't the way to go.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by tt433 »

It's a decision that puts reddit at odds with the user experience. That said, just switch your mobile browser to "use desktop site" or however your browser calls that feature. You have to wrestle with a (an?) UI designed for big screens though, beats not being able to see anything at all.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by tt433 »

itronitron wrote: post #37

From the post title, I was expecting this to be about an application the author created in which the community of users and devs is accessible from within the application itself. So for example, if you are using Blender then there is a tab for viewing recent posts, or Q&A by fellow users of the application. I wonder why no one does that.

The last thing I want to do when I'm actually in Blender is context switch. I'll look at the subreddit some other time, but making it easier to distract myself doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by iCarrot »

helmholtz wrote: post #9

The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes. As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new…

My experience says hobby subs on Reddit are amazing though, and plenty of 30 or older generation. Used to visit leathercraft and bicycling sub daily, until real life forced me to forgo both hobbies.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by trevyn »

konschubert wrote: post #28

I think a lot of this pain is caused by people who think that correlation == causation. Reddit's app users are more active than its mobile users, sure. But that doesn't mean that the mobile users will become more active when you force them to be app users. Eventually, all "light" users will abandon reddit while the "hardcore" users are forced to use the app. The metrics of user engagement will look reeeaally good, bu…

But what will be the new Reddit, is the question.

Re: This Community is Available in the App

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Post by itronitron »

tt433 wrote: post #47
itronitron wrote: post #37

From the post title, I was expecting this to be about an application the author created in which the community of users and devs is accessible from within the application itself. So for example, if you are using Blender then there is a tab for viewing recent posts, or Q&A by fellow users of the application. I wonder why no one does that.

The last thing I want to do when I'm actually in Blender is context switch. I'll look at the subreddit some other time, but making it easier to distract myself doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

You make a good point.

Still it would be nice if an application provided it's own community platform, maybe as a separate executable.

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