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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by dvt on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:28PM (#25308289)
I agree that it seems like it's ripe for disruption. Time for another Digg (which was what reddit was supposed to be) -- maybe with a mobile-first user experience (reddit is trash on a phone).
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by robswc on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:20PM (#25310215)
Its actually incredible how bad it is on mobile.

Its like, unusable... I'm amazed that the video player still only seems to work half the time.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by ObsoleteNerd on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:32PM (#25310743)
Never works for me at all, and most animated GIFs don’t animate either.

It takes a special type of effort to make video NOT work on modern web browsers.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by fizx on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:01PM (#25311620)
Which platform?
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by ObsoleteNerd on Sunday December 06, 2020 @07:25PM (#25328027)
Safari on iOS. Reddit is basically unusable without an account via web.
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by fizx on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:01PM (#25311618)
Which platform?
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by vinay427 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:44AM (#25315350)
Not the person you're replying to, but this happens to me on Chromium-based browsers and Firefox on Android 11. There are sometimes slightly different issues for each browser, but the UI is unusably slow on both. It at least helped starve my Reddit usage when that became a concern for me.
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by robswc on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:19AM (#25312000)
just checked it again, seems a lot smoother, maybe its been fixed.

I just remember videos would just have a black screen, wouldn't load at all.

maybe now with elections over the front page won't be 50% politics and I can get back to looking at cool stuff lol

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by robswc on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:12AM (#25311974)
iphone, web.

I guess that's not the app but still.

Works half the time on PC, half the time on web

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by jack2222 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:54PM (#25308650)
rather than digg, I'd like to see another stumbleupon
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by lotsofpulp on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:04PM (#25308800)
tiktok is sort of similar. Although much inferior, in my opinion.
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