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Re:Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably... by sgc on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:51PM (#21740471)
The breakdown of this generous interpretation to me is that everyone knows people really don't want a ton of apps on their device, specifically for privacy/security reasons. I visit no other site that force feeds their app to the extent reddit does. If they can't set a cookie and fuck off for a long while, forget it. I will never install it because of this, and if ff mobile with desktop requests did not exist, I would no longer visit their site on mobile.

Also what is the point of a native app for a website? Doesn't the browser do a better job already? Are they not just using a webview?

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Re:Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably... by boring_twenties on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:04PM (#21748929)
There are third-party apps for reddit that are pretty good, including Slide which is GPL and available on F-Droid.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably... by sgc on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:48PM (#21749165)
Third party is a bird of a different feather. The point is to modify the site to make it more useable, ala RES. But I have res on ff mobile and that is enough for me.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably... by boring_twenties on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:26PM (#21749576)
I use RES with FF on the desktop but on the phone an app like Slide is easily 10x better, IMO.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably... by csharptwdec19 on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:58AM (#21742186)
> The breakdown of this generous interpretation to me is that everyone knows people really don't want a ton of apps on their device, specifically for privacy/security reasons.

"But Our Company is different, and that's why we need %useless_feature_they_saw_in_another_app_unrelated_to_industry% to help hook users in."

Admittedly this thinking was a lot more common in the earlier half of the decade, but I've still seen it at other orgs.

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