Browsing Reddit is so much easier in a mobile browser - at least for me. Allows me to open multiple pages in new tabs and browse them when convenient. Also makes sharing articles or pages to other places easier.
I've tried the apps - but nothing beats the browser for me. If they kill the mobile website, I'll just stop using Reddit.
Im not going to stop using reddit, but I'll use it a lot less. I primarily consume it on my phone using Apollo when Im relaxing. I would likely only use it on my desktop and that would become infrequent at best.
A part of me almost wants the API changes to happen. It would free up more of my time in the evening and provide a little bit of schadenfreude. But honestly, I should just uninstall the app anyways.
Today will be the last day for me on Reddit (since I use it exclusively through Apollo); I mean, I may stumble upon it through Google searches on desktop every now and then, but I have no intention of installing their app on my phone.
I hope Reddit dies, they deserve to - also hope the communities find a consensus on an alternative to move to.
I engage with old.reddit.com in my browser a lot on my desktop. But their mobile app is just not enjoyable to me so I just won't be using Reddit on mobile anymore.
Maybe I'll build myself a nice little HTML-scrapper app for Reddit instead.
I don't think that's true. The majority of reddit users actually use reddit via third party apps and all those users will be impacted by reddit effectively shutting down all those apps. Anecdotally, I have a bunch of different friends who only use RIF and Apollo to browse reddit and say they won't use reddit anymore once those apps shutdown. They aren't vocal users advocating other people to do the same, they are just normal reddit users with low tolerance for poorly designed mobile ui's.
Cool, that assumes those users will continue to use Reddit after the third party apps have been killed.
For me, I don’t think that will be the case. I almost exclusively use Reddit on mobile though Apollo and Reddit’s own app is absolutely garbage (unpleasant to use and heating up my phone burning through the battery).
I used to pay for Reddit premium, but I stopped after realising that Reddit wasn’t providing me a better experience for it.
I use old reddit redirect. If old.reddit ever went away I would stop going to reddit completely, similar to what happened with the digg bar.
I don't use reddit on mobile specifically because I don't download apps on my phone (outside of a few small games such as bejeweled), and I think surfing the internet on the phone is miserable regardless. The only thing I ever crack my browser open for is to look something up while at the grocery store, etc.
On mobile, my Reddit experience seems to be ads, some wierd livestreaming events, posts from subreddits I don't belong to (or have unsubscribed from).
I rarely browse reddit on mobile, and on desktop normally go straight to the subreddits I'm interested in (and even that's decreasing).
There's probably some axiom that's relevant to this inevitable degradation of user experience on all social networking / UGC sites. If there isn't there should be.
My Reddit usage has basically plummeted to 0 at this point because of their pushing me towards an app.
I think there are provable cases where an app almost certainly leads to less retention than more and something like Reddit, whose value lies in allowing you to explore the internet is almost certainly one of them.
I have and will continue to use old reddit on my phone's browser as well, I really have no need or using mobile apps, official or otherwise; I use Joey for Reddit now on Android but that's just for convenience, I don't have to use it.
Yep, Apollo going away made me stop using mobile Reddit completely. Don't bother on the desktop either, because I liked the Apollo UI a lot more.
Nowadays I'm mostly on Tildes and here, neither of which has the endless inflow of content that Reddit did, it's actually possible to read "everything" on both and then go do something else.
I have to thank Reddit to enforce login on mobile site subreddits. It has reduced my overall addiction to reddit. Now if HN does that, I will be able to reduce my internet usage by at least 30%.
I won't be using Reddit on mobile going forward, and I'll stop using it on desktop when old.reddit inevitably goes away.
That sounds like a pretty big impact for me...
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