Not point of your post, but when I click that link on my phone Reddit won’t let me read it without downloading the app. The two options are download the app or go back to popular.
It’s crazy to me that Reddit would be willing to go to that extreme to get people to download their app.
Reddit is SO irritating with it's constant push to have you download their app. There's nothing on the site that requires it—Reddit is just listed content of text, video, images, and links. They also limit what you can post from their mobile site which I believe is just further pressure to get you into their unnecessary app.
It's by design. Reddit doesn't want you using the website. They want you to download the app. As numerous annoying popups and notifications will tell you when visiting the website (especially on mobile).
Your rebuttal is false and the parent is accurate. Reddit will throw up a full screen interstitial on most popular subreddits preventing even viewing and redirect you to download the app. This is on the mobile (not old.reddit desktop-only) site. Their UX is shite and full of dark patterns.
Here is another tangent. What the hell is with Reddit's popup on mobile to get you to install their app?! That thing is plain destructive, and you used to be able to dismiss it but not it even redirects you to /r/popular. So I guess your only option to read reddit on mobile is the app despite having a perfectly functional website
I only visit reddit when friends link off to it - I rather not be giving reddit any traffic at all if I could help it, so downloading an app just doesn't make sense for me.
Whoa, is that what this is? I’ve been wondering for quite some time why in the world Reddit hasn’t figured out how to make the “open in the app” links actually work. It’s bonkers that they spend so much effort making the web site push you to the app, but don’t even provide a working way to open a piece of content in the app.
I think it's funny how on iOS (at least for me) whenever I come across a reddit link it'll ask me whether I want to continue to view in whatever webView it's using or switch to the app. I usually prefer the app, so I click on it and 9 times out of 10 it'll take me to the app store for the default reddit app WHICH I ALREADY HAVE INSTALLED AND REGULARLY USE and it won't open in the app no mater what I try. Like this should be pretty basic functionality, especially if they're trying to drive users to their app, but nope.
The most infuriating part of this is that they haven’t implemented a functional deep linking system. I mostly come across Reddit on my phone from google, and would happily use the app to read whatever page I’m trying to get to, but the “open in app” button opens the App Store (even with the app installed). This is on iOS, maybe android is better.
Recently reddit has also started making its official app generate links to posts via the domain "reddit.app.link", instead of normal reddit.com urls. These new links automatically send everyone on mobile to the app store to download the official app, even if they clicked from inside a third-party app.
As far as I can tell, the only way to make the links work on mobile is to install the official app (once you do, they'll open the linked post inside it).
The reality is people including on Reddit itself (https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ilxihw/reddit_g...) have a lot of legit complaints about how the website now loads on mobile and is deliberately annoying to force people to download their app.
I find the not-old reddit link unusable on mobile as reddit frequently blocks mobile browsers from loading, demanding they use the app for data collection purposes.
Reddit is the only major site that still gets away with outrageously shitty engineering. There’s no possible way to follow this link on iOS. The link shows only a link to open in app but they’re so shitty that it opens the app in the app store not the actual app.
Web pages work just fine on phones, except companies are suspiciously forceful with their recommendations that you use their app instead. Don't pretend Reddit isn't doing this; others do as well.
Why is Reddit's official app so bad that people prefer third party apps over it? Maybe it's related to them brute forcing the app on you when you attempt to browse reddit in a mobile browser.
It’s crazy to me that Reddit would be willing to go to that extreme to get people to download their app.
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