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Reddit is now trying to force you to use their app on mobile
| Nyolent Vigor | 05/02/26 |
| cowgod | 05/02/26 |
| Nyolent Vigor | 05/02/26 |
| cowgod | 05/02/26 |
| Nyolent Vigor | 05/02/26 |
| oomox | 05/02/26 |
| cowgod | 05/02/26 |
| oomox | 05/02/26 |
| cowgod | 05/02/26 |
| oomox | 05/02/26 |
| Nyolent Vigor | 05/02/26 |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:16 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor If you go to reddit.com on a mobile browser, you can't see shit, it tells you to install the app
You can still use old.reddit.com on mobile but it's a shit interface
The internet sucks so bad now, wtf |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 5:46 PM Author: cowgod I saw a prole commenter refer to reddit as “this app” in a comment once and it made me want to quit reddit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862958&forum_id=2:#49860158) |
Date: May 2nd, 2026 5:44 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor I saw some usage statistics a while back
The breakdown between app, mobile web, "New" Reddit, and old.reddit.com was far from what I would have suspected. Tons of app users, only a tiny amount of old.reddit.com users
How did people get so bad at tech stuff? |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 5:46 PM Author: cowgod Are you on android?
Only thing I’ve noticed lately is it’s hard to filter best/controversial within the thread on desktop sometimes. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 6:00 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor Yea. With Firefox on Android in a private tab, I open up Reddit and it won't let me do anything. Can't scroll anything, can't log in, it just tells me to get the app.
It took me a little while to notice but if I open it in a regular tab I can still use it like normal. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 5:52 PM Author: oomox You can also request the desktop site in your mobile browser. I do that sometimes anyways because the mobile version doesn't let you do some things. But also, I just tried the mobile site and it has a toast at the bottom saying to install the app, but I closed it and it seemed fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862958&forum_id=2:#49860172) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 5:56 PM Author: cowgod This isn’t happening to me at all on safari tho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862958&forum_id=2:#49860181) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 6:00 PM Author: oomox Oh ya we should all state our browsers before we engage further. I'm using Chrome on Android.
Are you sure you didn't just dismiss it before and forget? Bc it only showed up for me once. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 6:12 PM Author: cowgod Nah safari when logged in is the easiest experience I have with it lately. Only advantage to desktop is you more easily type “CONTROVERSIAL” in the address bar readily since that’s the only way to sort threads by controversial afaict (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862958&forum_id=2:#49860207) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 6:16 PM Author: oomox It's 180 that sorting by Controversial is such a regular part of your Reddit experience (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862958&forum_id=2:#49860209) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 6:16 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor Well I can't screenshot what I'm seeing because it's in a private tab.
But if I load reddit.com in a private tab in Firefox on Android, I can't do anything, it just tells me to get the app.
If I set Firefox to load the desktop site, that still works. And going to old.reddit.com still works. But both of those are fairly shitty ways of using Reddit on a phone.
I guess it's minor. But it's a bad omen of what they're planning to do to the site. |