Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by ffpip on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:56AM (#24373462)

It is implemented in countries with less users only. To not piss off the majority in US/Uk.

Screenshots-

Any subreddit is like this on the web - https://i.postimg.cc/x1XcGBbr/photo-2020-09-04-15-23-09.jpg

Comments - https://i.postimg.cc/YC6TPCFQ/photo-2020-09-04-15-25-45.jpg

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by philliphaydon on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:44AM (#24373738)

Here's the non-logged in images:

https://i.postimg.cc/15HjNRQx/Image-from-i-OS-2.png

https://i.postimg.cc/6pp1VsW8/Image-from-i-OS-3.png

https://i.postimg.cc/x1ppts8t/Image-from-i-OS-4.png

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by philliphaydon on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:42AM (#24373725)

Wow! I had no idea.

This is what I see!

https://i.postimg.cc/8Cw9Q1ZB/Image-from-i-OS.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9sP0dKv/Image-from-i-OS-1.png

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by Sebb767 on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:23AM (#24375164)

I've had a similar phenomena. I've hit the lock when directly opening a subreddit link, but when I added a search filter etc I could open it normally.

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