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Reddit is completely unusable on mobile without the app. I get that they want ad revenue, and if they were less ham-handed about it (and if their app was significantly less shitty, and with more subtle ads), I might have installed it.

I'll keep using Reddit from a desktop browser, but I won't install the app. So now they get no revenue from me, when they had the chance to get some.



On my phone in Brave/Chrome I use desktop mode and old.reddit.com which is fine in terms of usability (completely agree that default Reddit mobile is a user-hostile embarrassment).


I don’t trust a company like this enogh to install their software on my machine. If they do the design equivalent of cutting your wrists and begging for love even less so.

I was the traditional target demographic of reddit, now I will go out of my way to avoid it. Just like Pinterest


> Reddit is completely unusable on mobile without the app

Without an app, anyway. I've been using Diode (available on FDroid, not sure about the Play store) and it's pretty good from what I've seen.


Your demographic has no bearing on Reddit’s bottom line.


The demographic of people that want to view the site on a phone?




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