How is Reddit's current mobile site so bad?
How is Reddit's current mobile site so bad?
When you try to edit a Reddit comment in their mobile web app, it deletes all line breaks from your comment so you have to remember to manually put them back before submitting.
The other big issue I have is that when you type in and edited comment, it will omit spaces between words at random. JFC, there's no reason to use anything but a vanilla HTML input element (because only markdown formatting is supported), but they somehow fucked up basic text input anyway!
My last little gripe is that nothing in the interface tells you that markdown is supported, which is extra dumb because the desktop interface tries so hard to hide the fact that markdown even exists.
(And yes, there are a host of other annoyances, but I'm trying to limit my criticisms to things that can only be explained by incompetence.)
It's on purpose to force you to use their shitty app.
Same strategy Facebook employs.
The amount of telemetry and personal data they can collect from an installed phone app is insane so they do everything they can to make you install it.
And the app is shitty on purpose to force you to...??
Engage with more sponsored content?
Go to old.reddit.com it still works the same (which is better than the new site or app on Desktop or mobile).
For now. I switched to Lemmy to get over the learning curve now instead of later when they inevitably remove old Reddit. Honestly? Good riddance
Or was it the other way around? Wait no, they want you to use some 3rd part... uh...
I uninstalled the app bc it just didn’t have enough accessibility features and sucked in general. It doesn’t even hold a candle to what Apollo was (RIP). The mobile site being dogshit is by design. You can’t even post pictures on it, I had to request the desktop site in order to post pics, and I wasn’t on a sub that bans photo posts. You also can’t access the chat on it really. It makes everything as difficult as possible to get you to use the app. They want all that data they can collect from you from the app.
So that’s why I uninstalled and now barely get on Reddit at all. They went from getting my traffic + my ad revenue to nothing bc they refuse to make their mobile site useable, and I use adblockers on desktop. They get nothing from me now (except of course free shit to train their Ai with)
Oh man I miss Apollo.
I still miss Alien Blue.
Reddit bought it and then basically ruined it.
Well, I'm thankful for what you will bring to Lemmy!
I dunno how people put up with the shitty buggy Reddit app that is riddled with ads over so long.
Mobile browsing was actually not half bad on i.reddit.com (aka .compact mode), a mobile interface developed over 10 years ago that got killed last year.
Yeah in the past it was fine but now it’s unusable bc they absolutely want you to download their dumb app. No thank you.
Them dropping i.reddit.com was the second to last straw for me, and a sign of the future.
Reddit's management is willing to damage user experience in exchange for profit, and they are absolutely vindictive about it as well.
They are abusive, plain and simple.
If you're on IOS, you can try installing SinkIt for Reddit. It makes the experience on mobile browsers more tolerable.
We still get reddit in our search results. It’s hard not to click when it seems like the best source. They want you to login, but you might be using a private window. The app feels like spyware trash. old.reddit isn’t super convenient on mobile.
Sink It makes clicking reddit links in search results not suck.
alt-text: iOS App Store screenshot of Sink It for Reddit by the total G, Tony Sundharam
Problems just writing text is often due to a combination of bad coding to an extent but especially to bad management needing to know exactly what you are doing (at which millisecond) to feed their AI, and to propose the "right" propositions to you (when applicable like on a site selling things/services, or just to sell the raw data).