That app is POISON. On my poor low storage phone it quickly ballooned up to 1.3 gigabytes as it cached things. That itself would have outright driven me away from Reddit.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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If you want your app used so much, just make it snappy damn
This is what's amazing. They could make a good, ad-supported app, but they seem to insist they don't need to while wondering why everyone's angry about third party apps going away.
Reddit never needed to fix their own hilariously-bad failure of an app, they could have just bought any of the ready-made, popular, beloved third-party apps out there for far less than this fiasco is costing them now. Old Twitter did this back in the day, some of their official clients started out as successful third-party apps.
Spez is out there being an insane libelous asshole to Christian Selig when he could have just hired him.
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They've been making their mobile site hard to use and blocking most utility with a "you really need our fucking app" popup for years now. I can't imagine how they could make it worse.
If Reddit wants to kill itself, who am I to change its mind? (I already tried and they didn't accept my feedback because the form was rigged against being completed)
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Companies that do this absolutely annoy me. Even Facebook doesn’t do this??
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I tried reddit with revanced, but even without ads the app is still garbage. Scrolling is laggy, simple gestures are non existent, I can't even copy a text by pressing on it.
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They are doingeverything exactly how elon did on Twitter
Such genius and innovation. He added not one, but three pop-ups telling you to log in and allow notifications. Have you ever seen such naked brilliance before? No one besides him has had the courage... except for maybe every malware site webmaster in 2002. He also sold a blue checkmark for $8! Like how does one human have such an unlimited well of brilliance?
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This happened on my device and I just said fuck it back to Lemmy.
Reddit is on that "Kill your own platform" speedrun any%
This is the Reddit. com front page on a mobile browser and has been for well over a year now
The writing has been on the wall for along time.
btw clear you cookies on exit, use a password manager, stay safe.
Getting rid of .compact was the first step.
I have been using the iOS browser extension called ‘sink it’.. blocks promoted posts, kills the popup to use the app
good thing I have a plan to block reddit :-)
Worst dark pattern ever.
They have been doing this for a long time now.
My solution was to use libreddit as a proxy, but at this point I would just advocate for ditching Reddit altogether.
For anyone wondering, you can still use it on mobile by changing the address to old.reddit.com in your mobile browser. So its still accessible on all mobile devices, just not on www.reddit.com.
They said they are going to kill .old soon
Have they actually said it? I've always assumed .old wouldn't be around forever. I'm sort of surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
A lot of people, myself included, would have left reddit a long time ago if it wasn't for .old. The new design is crippleware. The mobile experience even worse.
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It already did since 2 years ago, random "unverified content" bullshit login walls on popular/valuable advice, tens of megabytes of Javascript that took long to load on intermittent/unstable connections and terrible UI in general.
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More nails to the coffin