The clumsiness of the redesign aside, I’ve noticed that the experience on mobile is getting progressively worse as time goes on.

Now it’s almost impossible to browse reddit on mobile via browser, as you’re almost always get hit with the “see this community in app” or “log in to view this community”.

I use Slide or Narwhal as my reddit clients on mobile, and while this might be subjective, I’ve noticed how the experience has gotten progressively worse over time: gifs/videos take longer to load or don’t load at all, notifications either don’t arrive or arrive with great delays and a lot of other quality of life worsenings.

Part of this is probably due to the nature of third party apps and reddit’s api etc etc, but I get the unshakeable feeling that reddit is trying to close down it’s ecosystem, a la “death by a thousand cuts”.

Has anyone else noticed something similar or is it just me?

  • onlooker
    10·
    4 years ago

    Obligatory Old Reddit Redirect plugin link. Yeah, reddit has been going down the shitter for a while now and it gets closer to the drain with each rotatioin. I got the “see this community in app” message for the first time just last week. What baffles me is that if you enable desktop mode, it loads up just fine. What the hell are they doing over there?

      • onlooker
        2·
        4 years ago

        I have not, mainly because I don’t know what https redirect is outside of configuring web servers. Can you give me a quick rundown?

        • clockwise_bit
          4·
          4 years ago

          Well, it turns out I wrote redirect, instead of everywhere.
          I meant the popular browser plugin, but I fell victim to my usual distraction.

          That plugin has a not-so-advertised section in its settings where allows users to specify custom url rewrites.
          When you are on a webpage you want to redirect elsewhere, click on the plugin icon.
          Click on “See more” to extend the dropdown menu.
          You should see a button that says “Add a rule for this site”.
          Instead of stopping to that, press the “Show advanced” button to expand another subsection.
          There, you can use regex to define a matching pattern, and the correspondent redirect url.

          This only rewrites the domain though, not the url parameters.