I enjoy Quora but now it is unusable on mobile.
Why do companies do this?
Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
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Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#2This is also one of the reasons I refuse to use Reddit’s mobile site, and instead choose to zoom and pan the desktop site on my phone. I’d imagine mobile is more profitable, seeing as users cannot use an ad-blocker within the native apps.
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#3Bad QA :(.
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#4My guess is that most companies decide to cut the cost of maintaining responsive web apps since they are already paying developers to maintain native mobile and desktop web. Because, in their minds "who wouldn't just use the app"?
To get around it, there are a few lesser known mobile browsers that allow you to modify the "User-Agent" header, in which case you can bypass by masking yourself as viewing on a desktop browser. Sleipnir is one.
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#5Going through same feelings. I enjoyed Quora so much, now suddenly I see ads, now more ads than content, on top of that quality of content going so low. Everybody wants to show off writing skill and end up posting motivational quotes, pictures and what now. It ruined a genuinely good platform.
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#6My guess is that most companies decide to cut the cost of maintaining responsive web apps since they are already paying developers to maintain native mobile and desktop web. Because, in their minds "who wouldn't just use the app"? To get around it, there are a few lesser known mobile browsers that allow you to modify the "User-Agent" header, in which case you can bypass by masking yourself as viewing on a desktop bro…
Chrome and Safari on iOS have a “view desktop site” that, IIRC, work by sending a desktop User-Agent
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#7This is also one of the reasons I refuse to use Reddit’s mobile site, and instead choose to zoom and pan the desktop site on my phone. I’d imagine mobile is more profitable, seeing as users cannot use an ad-blocker within the native apps.
It helps the reddit desktop site is 3x faster than the mobile site/app on mobile.
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#8This is also one of the reasons I refuse to use Reddit’s mobile site, and instead choose to zoom and pan the desktop site on my phone. I’d imagine mobile is more profitable, seeing as users cannot use an ad-blocker within the native apps.
Use reddit's '.compact'. It's a far superior mobile site than the normal mobile reddit site.
Take any subreddit and add .compact at the end of the URL. e.g. https://reddit.com/r/programming.compact
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#9This is also one of the reasons I refuse to use Reddit’s mobile site, and instead choose to zoom and pan the desktop site on my phone. I’d imagine mobile is more profitable, seeing as users cannot use an ad-blocker within the native apps.
Auto playing videos is the worst thing. I don’t play videos because my data plan and Reddit seems to auto play on the detail page of a post.
About ready to give that one up for good.
Re: Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
#10My guess is that most companies decide to cut the cost of maintaining responsive web apps since they are already paying developers to maintain native mobile and desktop web. Because, in their minds "who wouldn't just use the app"? To get around it, there are a few lesser known mobile browsers that allow you to modify the "User-Agent" header, in which case you can bypass by masking yourself as viewing on a desktop bro…
Chrome and Safari on iOS have a “view desktop site” that, IIRC, work by sending a desktop User-Agent
“Responsive” sites do not work with that sadly. Something that has always bugged me.