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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As quoted from the linked post.

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.

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https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a sysadmin - I sort of welcome every dumb thing reddit does. I'll get more sign ups on my Lemmy instance :D

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the boat I'm in, so to speak! If you know of any good sysadmin or IT related communities out here, I'd very much so appreciate some recommendations!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've gone through some list before and federated to what I felt like might have a chance of being useful. It's mostly not IT related, though :D Full list that gets sorted by users/month metric.

In regards to some specific IT places - I quickly scanned the list and found a couple:

I've tried a few variant of link creation, not sure how to force the UI to adapt the links to your local account instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be appreciative of the community link, as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've replied 1 level up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!!