This Community is Available in the App
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#2I can't even view comments without downloading the app.
All NSFW posts are behind a app wall ("use anonymous mode in app to view porn"). They know it will get people to download the app.
All subreddits are behind an app wall.
All live streams too, but since I don't care about them, I ain't complaining.
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#3I can't even view comments without downloading the app. All NSFW posts are behind a app wall ("use anonymous mode in app to view porn"). They know it will get people to download the app. All subreddits are behind an app wall. All live streams too, but since I don't care about them, I ain't complaining.
I was able to see small subreddits without the app. I was thinking whether they are blocking only the bigger subreddits.
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#4I can't even view comments without downloading the app. All NSFW posts are behind a app wall ("use anonymous mode in app to view porn"). They know it will get people to download the app. All subreddits are behind an app wall. All live streams too, but since I don't care about them, I ain't complaining.
I was able to see small subreddits without the app. I was thinking whether they are blocking only the bigger subreddits.
They block based on the country you are from. If I use a UK/US VPN, I don't get the download app banner. But when I browse without a VPN (Indian IP), I get so many popups asking me to download the app.
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#5What's more annoying than the prompt for me is that they don't automatically redirect to the app if I have it installed. I've seen other apps do this but I'm not sure on the technical specifics. Just take me to the app if I have it installed instead of having to decline / accept.
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#6What's more annoying than the prompt for me is that they don't automatically redirect to the app if I have it installed. I've seen other apps do this but I'm not sure on the technical specifics. Just take me to the app if I have it installed instead of having to decline / accept.
It’s like a paywall, sign in or install the app to view content
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#7Are 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 fully shown before, then you had to click on individual posts to see them without cropping. Forcing people to expand comments is another one. Before we had infinite scroll, then you had to click many times to see the full extent of comments... And then a bit later, passed a few levels of nesting you were forced to use the app.
I don't know if an app like SlimSocial (which let you use Facebook's mobile site with the embedded messenger) exists for Reddit. I hate being forced to accept "permissons" to install / use an app. Personal data is the price to pay for services nowadays.
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#8“instead what they should do is introduce some awesome features that will make the users download the app by themselves so they can enjoy those features”
This never works anywhere close to as well as login-walling content.
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#9The 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 generation of kids, about half my age. I guess one of the disadvantages of being over thirty is that you lose the appetite to engage with teenagers/early-20s people who are on their own journey towards maturity.
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#10Did the people who found reddit involved with it anyway now? They were pretty cool people and I can't believe they would approve of all this nonsense.
Maybe the old team has been completely replaced by evil pointy haired people who don't care about anything except kpis?