I must admit, i was somehow curious, but no!
reddit
Infinity for reddit was working for me but today I installed android 14 and its now asking to pay for subscription. I am now officially of Lemmy. No more reddit for me.
The only way to use Reddit on mobile is to use old Reddit. You have to zoom in to tap on things, but holy hell it’s still so much better than the mobile version of the website.
Eh, the worse the experience is, the less I want to use Reddit, which is only good if you ask me.
If you have an iOS device, this browser extension is a godsend: https://gosinkit.com/
It’s wild to me that Reddit never developed a reasonably functional mobile version of their site. They bought out a few designs, and relied on 3rd party apps for a while, and now they’re doing their utmost to force everyone to use the garbage pile that is their current design. I just don’t see how it proved such an impossible task for them.
I get the sense that tying their shoelaces is an impossible task for them. That the site is online and running is a damned miracle.
Doesn’t desktop mode in a mobile browser get around this?
I use old Reddit and a third party app, so my recap made no sense
I liked that
What app is that? Are any of them still working?
A few of mine continued to work as normal, and I’m not sure why
Iirc Joe for Reddit was one of the few third party apps, that were able to continue using the api for free ( or almost? ).
I don’t remember what the conditions were though, there was some catch, something they had to feature in their apps in order to get the free api access.
At least the recap was good for some funny self-owns:
Meh, I opened Reddit just to lurk on the only subreddit I would post on. Recap for that community reminded me it was all one big circle jerk… but now with more advertisements.
Options:
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Give us your data
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Go fuck yourself
It stopped working for me with a vpn. They are really pushing people away at this point.
I guess it’s an issue is profitability. I think long term, these companies can’t survive. It really depends on a community support.
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Blocking modal windows are a sin and make me less likely to interact with a site. Imgur is also guilty. No, I don’t want to participate in your community meme event when I’m just trying to look at an image on the app that is clogging up my RAM because you think it does something important and interesting enough to warrant deeplinking it in an electron wrapper.
Also, while I’m here, fuck modal windows with no X to close button which forces you to read the buttons to figure out which one is the “fuck off” button and not the “take all my money” button.
Hey, remember the days of pop-up windows where the X button was labelled “Open in background” if you hovered over it. At least there’s been some progress. \s
Or the X has the same color as the background, making it hard to see at all and so small, it’s almost unusable on Mobile.
These are all intentional, to make it hard for you. I build websites for a living and clients actually ask for designs that “keep” the user on the site. Since i have no say in things other than the area that affects my work, i sometimes hate my job and have no other way than just do my job.
“Oh, the cancel button is too big. Make it smaller or better yet, don’t make it a button, just a small text link, somewhere at the bottom, with font-size: 9 px … And remove the underline…”
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2023 isn’t over?
Their app is so shit they have to extort people to use it.
One of the advantages of being on old reddit like a hopeless geezer is not getting to see that shit.
Or the:
- open in app
- continue in browser
Every. Fifteen. Minutes.
just not visitinf reddit solved the issue for me
I still visit niche communities on Reddit that have almost zero activity here. Trying to geow them, but it’s not taking off.
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Or just don’t go to reddit any more.
I just deleted my reddit account. There’s no going back now.
Works if you view as desktop