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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by wkat4242 on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:12PM (#34748419)
You're on one right now. If that wasn't clear from my post.

Also, Reddit still manages ok on this front IMO. The only reason I stopped paying was that they doubled the price when they moved away from gold to whatever it is they call now.

Another one is tweakers.net in Holland.

Boards.ie in Ireland though I left that country years ago and I don't know how that site is fairing now.

Those are the main ones I can think of right now.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by thepasswordis on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:57PM (#34748775)
Reddit is doing everything they can to kill it though. It's gone from habitually including site:reddit.com in every google search to actively avoiding it on mobile.

I'm not going to install the app. Ever. I will never, ever, ever install reddit's app. No amount of nagging me will ever get me to install it ever.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by TulliusCicero on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:30PM (#34748976)
I still use site:reddit.com for recommendations, I just use a third party app for viewing (rif is fun, aka "reddit is fun").
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by aqfamnzc on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:56PM (#34749431)
"reddit is fun is fun for reddit"
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by thepasswordis on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:40PM (#34749658)
How do you get weblinks to open in that app?
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by onlypositive on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:47AM (#34749925)
Three dots, open in app. You need something that is associated to those links for the menu option to show though. (Firefox)
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by berniedurfee on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:56AM (#34752305)
Is that Apollo for Reddit on the iOS app store?
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by inerte on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:58PM (#34749138)
I use https://apolloapp.io/ - heck a few weeks ago I realized I used it SO much I paid for it, not because I wanted any of its premium features, just because it has delivered so much value to me I decided to give its author some money.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by aeyes on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:36PM (#34749629)
I use Apollo (paid version) after Alien Blue got unusable and I still have the problem that sometimes links go to the mobile site in a browser within Apollo where I get bombarded with "download the Reddit app".

I wouldn't be surprised to see Reddit kill their API in the future.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by dylan604 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:07AM (#34750261)
They're probably sitting back taking notes on the bull in the china shop that is Musk owned Twitter
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by paradox460 on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:11PM (#34749502)
If you replace the reddit URL with i.reddit.com, you get the old mobile site, which was optimized for 533MHz devices. They sometimes put banners to redirect you to the newer design, but you can dismiss them
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by thepasswordis on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:40PM (#34749655)
That’s great info thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by wkat4242 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:03AM (#34750240)
Good point. I forgot about the incessant app nagging because I use the old mobile interface and I don't really use reddit on mobile that much anymore.

However one of the things I do like is that they don't really interfere with the content. There's some really fringey communities on there like exhibitionists that would be banned by other platforms in 5 minutes because they really don't want to deal with the legal worries and stigmatization. Reddit leaves them alone, the only time they really close communities is when they become toxic.

I'm not a fan of Conde Nast but they could have done a lot worse with Reddit.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by berniedurfee on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:53AM (#34752291)
Same… and, yeah, it’s purely out of spite. The more you nag, the less likely I will do the thing.

I use site:reddit.com all day in Google though. It really is still somehow a reliable place for information.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by XajniN on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:57PM (#34757298)
What’s wrong with the app? I’m not using reddit very often, but the app seems ok.