It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.
This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.
Yeah, I read this insane "well, Reddit admins will just reopen all the closed subs and things will just keep going like before." And I just can't stop thinking about what a shit show some of those big (and all ready quite toxic) will become.
You can't just swap out a group of people to moderate million+ subreddits. It's all just toxic, racist memes all the way from now on.
And tons of nice niche subs will also go down in flames. Kinda sad, tbh.
They are not trying to burn it down. They don't care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.
Steve Huffman is trying to stir up all the shit and get fired with a golden parachute, then the remaining team can blame it on him and reverse almost nothing.
This is just the natural consequence of IPO's and generally what happens when greed replaces stewardship and community. Profit-seeking was always at odds with user-driven content, it was managable up untill big stupid money managed by disinterested parties got involved, and now we're just in the late stages of Enshitification.
In web site management, experiments deployed to a fraction of users are a great thing for testing new features, or for comparing different UI approaches. They let you find out things like "users use the help button more often if it's next to the search box instead of at the top right" or "people click on ads more if they have a cute pink background".
Literally turning off the service for a fraction of users is, um, not the sort of experiment worth performing. You already know what happens when you have an outage, because you've had outages before. The only difference is that by doing it deliberately, you show that it's not the tech that's unreliable; it's the people running it.
If anything, that makes it more obvious the mobile browser block is related to the API shutdown. Two sides of taking back all the mobile users into their own client.
Capitalism has never and will never lead to innovation in anything other than extracting profits.
They're just so entirely bad at it they manage to not make profits on a website with nearly as much traffic as Instagram while paying close to nobody for moderation.
If they somehow manage to block universal access to the vast knowledge reddit has accumulated over the years, especially for technical stuff, it will be a tragedy. I have learned so much on that website...
I don't think they ever confirmed it, but I'm pretty sure for a while they were experimenting with blocking people who used VPNs too. There was about two weeks where reddit just didn't work on my laptop and I couldn't figure out why, until I saw a thread where other people were discussing it and someone said try it without the VPN. Sure enough, that did it. Then after a couple of weeks it went back to normal again.
Mobile platforms need an effective way to block data hoovers. There is a reason everything is an app now and that is that mobile platforms aren't safe.
Can you stormfront people stop talking about r***it please? It's been a fash site for years if you were paying attention so why the surprise that the fash site is showing its true colors?