Technology

Of course they are, gotta make everyone use the shitty app to farm as much data as possible!

The experiment just being if you quit?

It’s worth noting that this post was from last month before they announced the usurious pricing of the API. However the fact that they were doing this does not bode well for people (like me) trying to avoid using their horrendous app.

Not surprised. They need to milk every last drop of revenue from their users free content for the upcoming IPO.

A few weeks ago, Reddit stopped the one usable mobile interface (.compact). Since then, I stopped visiting Reddit on mobile apart from a few moments of trying out miserable 3rd party apps.

Blocked reddit.com on my router today. Sigh....looks like the end.

Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha so Reddit can say 'hah, you used the app to look at Reddit!'?

Experimenting on their own users...

I literally just had an instance of opening a nsfw reddit link from a Google search and it informed me that I could only see nsfw posts in the app...

And they really don't stop comin, eh? Corporate social media sites in general keep shooting themselves in the foot lately lmao, I think we're about on track for a massive revolution in how the internet landscape looks and works sometime soon. Or, that's what I hope anyways :x

Man, he's so professional. He gives answers that I'd expect a very experienced PR person to give, yet he's just a single-man operation developer.

Oh wow, they're really digging themselves deep into that shithole

I think they are just trying to get rid of people that care at this point... Lol.

Wow..

What a dirty move, fuck u/spez, i will not download your shitty client

Talk about mask off, lmao