I just don’t understand the thought process. They could’ve just shelled out $10M for Apollo and made that the official Reddit app. Then give users the choice of ads or pay for ad free experience.
so basically they’re making a massive gamble that most people will just switch over to their garbage app. Maybe they will, but for sure the power users, big sub moderators & regular posters are all coming to Lemmy. You know, all the people that made Reddit worth visiting.
Personally I think this will be the end of Reddit.
Well, Reddit did shell out money for a third party client. They bought the iOS app Alien Blue in 2014 and turned that into an official app before quickly abandoning it for their client in 2016.
They bought the app , and then destroyed it.
They should have learned for their second try, and just bought the app, then not destroyed it.
That would never happen though. The icentives of Christian Selig and the incentives of Reddit are very different. People like it because it’s not made by Reddit
If your core offering can be recreated by a bunch of hobbyists in the their spare time, and your value is 100% the content your users create and moderate then perhaps you’re not the great product company you thought you were and you should leave product creation to others.
But hey, perhaps it’s a good idea to take the reasons for using your site away and see what happens.
After all, your friends take their private planes everywhere while you’re forced to fly first class occasionally - and you want that money.
Realistically Reddit will survive, but it will be a zombie of its former self, kind of similar to how Digg is these days. Let’s just hope it kills their valuation and /u/spez has to answer for it.
I really hope it survives, only because I want to preserve and archive all of it’s content. Sure, there’s a lot of duplicate data and links to other places, but there’s also a lot of unique things there. If it dies before it can be properly archived we would lose most of it, with only internet archive keeping some. That would be sad.
I think that it’s been fairly well archived prior to July 1st. Now that API access is blocked, further backing up becomes harder.
Some of the communities I was in on Reddit don’t seem to want to move. They’re ones where users don’t go to Reddit, they go to r/whatever, and have usernames matched to the sub.
I doubt Reddit can survive on those sort of users, in those sort of subs, but many of them will stay on Reddit as long as it keeps working
I now only use Reddit for those subs, but rarely since I now only use Reddit thorough it’s old web interface with Reddit Enhancement Suite
I could never get use to the desktop layout.
Old.reddit.com with Res is the way. But they seem to be breaking it slowly.
I noticed for example that chat stopped working recently. They really want you to use the new layout.
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And 50% of mobile users are on a toilet
I uninstalled boost today, can’t wait for Boost for Lemmy. Although Jebora is pretty nice too.
That’s gonna drop. Right?
Probably not by too much, realistically a lot of people are going to switch to the official app
I’m not going to switch to the official app. If anything thing, I’ll use Firefox with UBO.
I too am not going to use the official app, however, we’re both on Lemmy.
People using the official app are still on reddit. We’re in a nice little bubble on this issue for sure.
Not anymore LOL
I mean I think I saw a chart before the change and over 50% of people use the official app. So it’s less then I had thought.
Depressing, but I’m also excited for new things here
To be honest, I really doubt they felt the exodus. Most people don’t care what Reddit is doing and /r/videos alone had more users than entire Lemmy network. I wish they felt it. I refuse to open Reddit now. They could have had a different, more user friendly approach, but no… quick and easy way to earn money.
Worth mentioning that mobile ≠ app. Many people use Reddit in their browsers. Or the official app for that matter. This article doesn’t really give those numbers which I’m sure unfortunately place the third party app users in a smaller minority. Still, I never used a third party app personally and I was still outraged enough at Reddit’s behavior to leave. Hopefully more will follow suit.
Aren’t they also pushing changes to have mobile browsers redirect to the app with no option for staying in the browser?
Felt like they were doing that for a while. It’s why I went on Boost. I refused to be pushed onto their mobile app.
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What an unnecessarily user-hostile move. No wonder they’re going to implement it.
It could stop you from using the browser altogether and point you to the app.
That’s what they’re currently testing out, yes.
You can just enable “desktop site” checkbook in your mobile browser, it would send non-mobile user agent to the server. That’s the only way a server can detect a mobile browser.
While that’s an option the desktop site is barely navigable on a desktop let alone on a mobile device
old.reddit.com is still an option, for now at least.
But honestly? I’m going to stick to lemmy as much as I can.
old.reddit.com sucks on a phone though. It’s very difficult to navigate without zooming in and out all the time to click on links.
I will not sit at desk to read . Smartphone are just way better for this kind of task . Most people access the internet with a smartphone ,not a PC tower.
What about a laptop or tablet? I usually only use my phone when I’m on the go or in a difficult situation.
once you have a a phone , why pay 300$ for a tablet ? I was thinking to buy a tablet because I spend an outrageous amount of time reading stuff on the internet . I looked at low-end tablet and the screen quality was terrible . I look at a S7 FE tablet ,700$, way better , but should I spend 700$ for 3 inch bigger screen ? Tablet on the toilet? I don’t think so. Tablet in my shower shelves , no. Tablet in my bed,maybe , but just while sitting … What about listening to podcasts … My phone do it and fit in my pocket , my bicycle , my car and my jogging fanny bag. So the tablet would be used only while I’m the couch or laying in my bed… but at this point I have a laptop . I have a 42 inch tv connected to my pc tower ,and a laptop that I barely use. Since I’m sitting all day long at my job. I prefer to lay down on my sofa at night ,not sit again behind a monitor on an office chair .
Tablet when you lose the ability to focus up close and need your device arm’s length away. But there are treatments for list accommodation or glasses, so that’s a non problem
Mainly for
- chilling in bed or something, where a laptop is too clumsy
- digital art/drawing/notes (for me, may not apply to others)
We also have like 10-12" tablets now and I’m a small phone fan, so I could see like a 5.5" phone and 11" tablet working well.
LMAO
*TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit WAS from users on a mobile device
Until July 1 2023 🪦
