Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by deepstack on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:39AM (#28550951)

Reddit is a bad example. On smart phone they force you to use the app instead of the mobile web page. That doesn't happen with forum such as PHPBB. The exact reason why it is better to be a simple forum that works in simple browsers.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by babuskov on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:47AM (#28551018)

> On smart phone they force you to use the app instead of the mobile web page

I have been using i.reddit.com for years on mobile. It works great.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by dagw on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:53AM (#28551072)

Yes there are various 'hacks' for using Reddit on mobile without an app, but the default discoverable Reddit web site that most 'normal' people will find is completely and intentionally broken on mobile

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by est31 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:54AM (#28551085)

i.reddit.com doesn't support stuff like videos or image galleries, so often links lead to new reddit. It is usable, but often quite annoying.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by egberts1 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:14AM (#28552072)

I’m app-free, save for Firefox.

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