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And what about people who don’t want to install an app for a variety of reasons?

Alrighty, they aren't even trying to be subtle anyone

Or many they still are, in which case wow thats kinda sad

Wow, they're really shitting the bed aren't they?

As if there was somebody on the fence about what direction Reddit is taking. Glad I left

The fact they are running experiments on their users without opt-in is disgusting. In what world is that okay? Facebook also ran many psychological experiments on their users like shadow-banning them just to see if they felt more alone without telling people. It's gross.

Reddit behavior is impressive given that all their content is user generated. I'm impressed by the level of blatant disregard for the people that actually makes you money. This is mastery of a shameful level if not giving a single fuck and some people would just still be ok to continue using that platform.

Oh man, along with the api changes, blocking mobile browsers really might end Reddit. It’s sad that this is all a self-own that could be reversed if they chose. Oh well, that’s on them.

@lynny It's like they don't even want users anymore.

oh dear. Thats just evil

Reddit is dying in flames, and I couldn't be happier.

I had no idea that this was happening. But it makes sense with the decision they just made. I'm guessing they disabled X number of users on the mobile site that logged in, and tracked how many X users were converted to the Official Reddit App because of that.

That way they can predict how many users they will lose to the API change (roughly) and made a business calculation that the lost users were worth it. I'd be astounded if they didn't also have a sorting for 'value' of users as well and weighted the calculation with how many high value vs low value users didn't convert.

Not surprised. They need to milk every last drop of revenue from their users free content for the upcoming IPO.

This is incredibly pathetic. Why the asshats running reddit want to kill it this hard before an IPO is beyond me

I can maybe think of the thought process of people so far removed from how people use reddit trying to squeeze as much money out of it but killing it in the process, but it feels so dumb that I'm not sure I'm convinced

What about if you switch your mobile browser to Desktop Mode? That seems to work for YouTube's fuckery where they pause videos when minimized on mobile.

But still, it's principle. Give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Reddit can burn.

The mobile browsing experience was a huge shitshow anyway. Randomly refreshing webpage, comments never posting or posting 5 times, expanding comments would work sometimes. They actively nuked it to make people use the reddit app. Fuck them

What’s up with Reddit? Have they gone completely insane?

WE BROKE REDDIT?

YAYY

and fkkk spez

They already blocked it for unregistered users. There's only that annoying overlay, that forces you to install their app.

No fucking way. Dude.

If I never have to use another Meta service again I'll be very happy. Unfortunately I still have to use WhatsApp because that's all anyone I know uses to communicate...maybe one day.

Fuck reddit man. They're doing all they can to kill it

Is there a revanced reddit app?

Tiring to see reddits downfall due to corporate greed, just as so many other sites in the past. Honestly surprised old.reddit is still around, seeing how they certainly dont like users using anything but their own inferior app. While spez said it wouldn't go anywhere I have my doubts about that.

This just proves it's not about pricing, just unwillingness to let users choose.

So the only option will be their own terrible mobile app. thanks, but no thanks!

Holy shit Reddit is apparently trying to speedrun destroying itself. Hopefully lemmy gets popular soon because I think it’s going to stop being a matter of preference and will become necessary