I think regression isn't saying it directly enough. Reddit purposefully sabotages their own mobile site to entice you to install a data slurping app on your phone.

Don't even bother with reddit on mobile; you really need an app. I've been through a lot of reddit apps and Boost is the best IMO. Everything just works, and useful gestures that I usually don't trigger by accident.

On some posts on mobile I get an overlay telling me to either create an account, or view r/popular, with no choice to view the post I found via search. If you do sign in you get 2, sometimes 3 consecutive popups to use their app. They definitely don't care about the mobile web experience except as a means to market their app

You might also like https://i.reddit.com/ for pure, fast, HTML experience. Until they yank it. Sshh!

Reddit is a psychopath organisation. Strong words, but if you've ever followed a Google link to a Reddit page on mobile, then you would understand that no-one could accidentally build such an abhorrent experience, it is deliberate evil.