Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site

Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by Scoundreller on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:51PM (#18416824)

It’s a matter of time before they acquire the top app or two and block the rest.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by wlesieutre on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:40PM (#18417235)

IIRC the official app is from them buying AlienBlue, which used to be the best one on iOS. These days it's Apollo.

Apollo recently moved some push notification features behind a subscription to cover ongoing costs, separate from their "Pro" one time in-app purchase, so I think Reddit is at least taking a cut from API usage by other clients.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by naravara on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:39PM (#18417785)

Weirdly, most of the features Apollo puts behind the subscription tier are features I think foster unhealthy engagement with Reddit and I'm just as happy to not have hanging over me.

I'd be happy to pay them, but I actually don't WANT push notifications, posting from the app, or any of the other stuff that encourages websites to pull you in deeper.

And the only reason I even use Apollo is because mobile Reddit is a nightmare UX. Literally a case study in how to make a horrid, horrible experience on the mobile web.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by wlesieutre on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:27PM (#18418180)

Same boat here, I've got Pro but have no desire for notifications.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by Crespyl on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:49PM (#18418334)

I don't use the iOS versions, but IIRC they never really did anything with AlienBlue after the purchase, and the "official" mobile app is a totally separate project.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by selectodude on Friday November 09, 2018 @07:53PM (#18419271)

It was an acqui-hire. He wrote the new reddit app, too.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by Deimorz on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:35PM (#18419965)

No he didn't. This was the developer, he's been gone from reddit for over 2 years now: https://www.reddit.com/user/jase

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by a_wild_dandan on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:39PM (#18417219)

Guess it's a matter of time before I stop using Reddit then.

I already ran to Relay as an escape from Reddit's astonishingly garbage mobile browser experience. Next stop is the door.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by hyperpallium on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:21PM (#18418854)

https://reddit.com/.compact

https://i.reddit.com

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by bsharitt on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:52PM (#18420018)

That’s what use and consider to be the best reddit mobile experience. The regular reddit mobile site doesn’t seem to render on iOS Safari properly most of the time, probably by design.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by sureaboutthis on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:14AM (#18421023)

To repeat myself, reddit, in most cases, should be avoided anyway so you will gain by doing so.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by Klonoar on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:23PM (#18417106)

Eh I doubt the Apollo guy would be interested in selling, but I've been surprised before.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by jorvi on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:41PM (#18417248)

They could bully him into selling, same way as Twitter has slowly strangulated 3rd party clients.

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