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I must admit, i was somehow curious, but no!

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago

At least the recap was good for some funny self-owns:

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Options:

  1. Give us your data

  2. Go fuck yourself

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use old Reddit and a third party app, so my recap made no sense

I liked that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What app is that? Are any of them still working?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A few of mine continued to work as normal, and I'm not sure why

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reddit mobile browser is THE definition of asshole design

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All of reddit's newer design is the definition of asshole design. Once old.reddit.com is killed off the site will be as unusable as X or TikTok is on web for logged out users.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why are you still using reddit?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not?

(Also look at the community you are replying in... What use is there on quesrioning why people use reddit on the c/reddit, it's like when people say "why are you using 4chan" on r/4chan lol)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, both sites are pretty much gaping shit holes at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yeah somewhat, I'm just pointing out the idiocy of asking that question in a place specifically designed to talk about those places.

Also, regardless of how bad the sites as a whole are, making the transition fully is just plain too difficult, there are communities that haven't moved and no matter if you are putting effort to have them here, you won't be able to get a question about a program answered if there are 3 active people on a community

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

On top of that while I did quit mostly cold turkey after Apollo shut down, putting Reddit at the end of internet searches especially for games (looking at you planetside and V Rising) really helps me manage to this exact piece of niche information I need

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh absolutely. I still go back for the occasional check-in with my favorite small communities. But I basically never browse /r/all or any of the top subreddits that used to keep me coming back multiple times per day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I go to Reddit for literally one thing every week- a schedule I won't see anywhere else. I just look at the schedule and leave. But I still need Reddit to see that schedule.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm not really using it like before, i jump there sometimes from search results and am logged in automatically...

I haven't deleted my account yet, because idk, there are some things I'd like to be able to look up.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Deleting all my posts and then my account was the best thing I've done in ages

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am actually really tempted now to do so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Done!

Edit: i also wanted to make a screenshot of the "account deleted" message, but after clicking on "delete" you're just redirected to the front page, no confirmation whatsoever... Lame

Edit 2: yes, i deleted all my posts/comments beforehand. At least that was confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Their app is so shit they have to extort people to use it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or the:

  • open in app
  • continue in browser

Every. Fifteen. Minutes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just not visitinf reddit solved the issue for me

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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..."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Please get the app

Please

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

One of the advantages of being on old reddit like a hopeless geezer is not getting to see that shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

2023 isn’t over?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Doesn't desktop mode in a mobile browser get around this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Works if you view as desktop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

My recap would show all of my accounts go inert right around the time I jumped over to lemmy (circa beans, Titan implosion).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I just deleted my reddit account. There's no going back now.