> What is the primary reason you don't want to download the Reddit app?
> I want to save space on my device
> I don't use Reddit often enough
> I prefer the privacy of my web browser
> I want to avoid push notifications
> I already have the Reddit app
> I get what I need from the web browser
After purging those (e.g. "app is missing features", "app is unstable") they needed to disguise the gap, so they are padding it with "safer" answers. Answers that don't reflect badly on past choices made by management.
Why won't they install my curl | bash cron job that runs as root on all their servers? I pinky-promise it's mostly harmless.
Like my time is worth zero. Is theirs?
Delete.
> You'll never get me to use the app so stop trying.
I mean for the sake of the completeness of their how-to-get-people-to-use-app research, not just the benefit of the user who doesn't want the app.
You will not convert 100% of people to the app, unless you shut down the website, or make it so unusable on mobile that it might as well be shut down.
That sounds like a net positive, to be honest.
... Not that the second isn't still a pretty big deal, I didn't stop being a techno-hermit.
Lately I've only been visiting a few subs that I'm interested in and keeping them open in safari with ublock; it's been a far better experience. This has drastically cut my reddit time now and if I do want to mindlessly scroll, I just use redlib(hosted in docker or one of their public instances)[0]. It has the same "sort" that's used on the desktop site.
You've reached the end!
Terr_•6h ago
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P.S.: As a hardcore Reddit commenter for over a decade who remembers moving from Digg, I'm mostly-serious. When there's an actual human discussion, I do not want to squint at a tiny viewable area, evading ads-that-look-like-comments, and manually iterating through dozens of "load more that are hidden" link-buttons... some of which will cause a page transition and completely reset all progress.
This is especially true when I'm trying to find some crucial keyword (perhaps one a search-engine told me exists) but I can't just ctrl-f the through comments anymore.
No, at that point... Well, at that point I will turn to something that would otherwise be anathema, a malevolent "solution" so horrible that it shows just how bad the problem is... I will seek a summary from [ominous thunderclap] an LLM!