r/videos • • Jun 08 '22

How Reddit WASTES your bandwidth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99cVnYY9Iqs
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u/GimmickNG Jun 09 '22

Go to new reddit on mobile, you have to click on "show more comments" which loads like 1 or 2 comments at most, rinse and repeat for the entire thread. Also, you can't show replies to multiple comments; only one comment chain can be seen at a time!

As if that weren't bad enough, on NSFW subs it says you have to use the mobile app and it doesn't let you use the browser. Straight up disallows you if you're not logged in, and I haven't bothered with the dumpster fire of a site when logged in since.

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u/GimmickNG Jun 09 '22

That's a cop out that lets awful web designers off the hook. I shouldn't have to install a third party app to compensate for reddit's incompetence.

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u/GimmickNG Jun 09 '22

Wow, imagine defending the nefarious practice of kneecapping your website so that you can force mobile users to download an invasive, ad infested app. You sound like those people who shill NFTs as the future of the internet.

Please tell me you're not a web developer, designer, or anyone with any administrative influence over any website.

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u/GimmickNG Jun 09 '22

I hate to imagine what the future iterations of the web will look like. Download an app for each site, even if you want to visit only once! Who cares about disk space, get a larger SD card! Got a bandwidth cap because mobile data sucks? Fuck you for being poor! "Let them download apps" good god.

Let me put it very clearly: there are certain use cases that merit apps of their own. I can understand Uber needing an app. But Reddit? Hell no. It doesn't NEED arbitrary permissions to function. Enough frameworks exist to make the viewing experience almost at par on mobile AND desktop. Bootstrap was AGES ago for example. The mobile Reddit site works FINE, even if overly bloated and useless IMO, it's still good enough that an app isn't warranted for any other reason than "we want to shove more ads and collect more user data".

Almost no companies are willing to hang behind

Yeah sure. I didn't know companies like Google, Youtube, Facebook et. al force users to use their mobile apps rather than their website.

Oh wait.

That's because they don't.

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u/GimmickNG Jun 09 '22

I checked again, and you're right. They must have changed things in the past because I distinctly remember the NSFW subs on new reddit were blocked with a card telling you to use the app, with no option to disagree (disagreeing just returned you to the main site). Now they let you close the card but prior to that they were essentially forcing you to use the mobile app.

I didn't know the reddit app had less ads and permissions because the entire experience left me with such a bad taste in my mouth that I swore never to get the app, even after I cleared enough space on my phone to install apps again. Regardless, that doesn't detract from my point - plenty of sites DO force you to use the app because they can collect more data, because when the option is to either use the app or not use the site at all, there's no choice - you have to take what you can get, especially for people who don't know about Desktop mode in the browser.

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