Please stop asking me to use the app

My main concern is Reddit pulling a Twitter and cracking down on third-party clients/enhancers, such as RES and the Apollo app for iOS (which is excellent)

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by cm2012 » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

It's all to make ad revenue feasible. Can't say I blame them.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by firefoxd » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

Note the little grayed out "go to mobile site" link. It actually makes you believe it is a link. But it is not. It makes you think that if you click it will take you somewhere else, so you don't want to click and lose the current page. Dark pattern at it's best.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by colanderman » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

I'm surprised that's their only problem with the mobile site. I purposely do not follow Reddit links because they show me a spinner for 7 seconds before showing the text of self posts. I can only assume that this delay to show a kilobyte of text is purposeful and meant to further steer users to the app, and not simply gross engineering incompetence, since the desktop site loads instantly.

(Though, thank you to the OP for posting an explicit desktop link so I didn't have to suffer this pause.)

At least AMP seems mostly dead. Though between cookie notices, "use our app" and "subscribe to our mailing list" popups, fixed navbars, and the damn on-screen keyboard popping up for no reason, I'm lucky to see even a single line of article text on some sites on mobile, though which line it is changes every few seconds as ads on invisible parts of the page pop into and out of existence. And then the article is shitty modern "long-form" journalism that doesn't get to the point until after 10 paragraphs describing the latte the reporter had while giving the interview. I've had better experiences reading click-bait slideshow articles than those from some so-called "professional" outlets. God I hate the modern web. Get off my lawn.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by aloner » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

myf01d wrote: post #2

Please stop forcing the old.reddit.com subdomain on us

if you have an account, you can disable the redesign.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by bredren » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

It is really bad. Coincidentally I received an email from reddit today titled “Reddit ads are mobile ”

>Reddit’s official mobile apps have seen tremendous growth and are by far the most popular way to browse Reddit on mobile devices.

These days dark patterns are tremendous. This thread must be fake news.

Re: Please stop asking me to use the app

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Post by kirubakaran » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

I'm thankful for their new design, actually. After many years of trying, I have now managed to successfully kick my Reddit habit completely and have gained precious hours in my day.