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The API issue was a huge nail into the coffin of the user experience at reddit. For sure, mobile site will disappear and then old.reddit.

Everything about this is utterly tone deaf, you can see it in u/spez answer in his AMA about how the company will continue to be profit driven until it’s profitable. Bro, this is not how you talk to your user base. Your actions, policies, and strategic outlook should be toward driving the user experience and your service so that it is profitable. Not degrading all things for grinding down every extra cent at the expense of your entire companies differentiators.

Fuck spez, fuck reddit.

They're really trying to speedrun killing their site lmao

Yikes this is so insane. I'm so sick of the ads and spyware laden apps. Once you look into that abyss it's hard to unsee it. It's uncomfortable to have every aspect of you monetized and viewed. It's unnatural man. I just started hardening my internet and device use this year.

Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I'm honest.

this is a beginning of the end for reddit as we know it

It's like they're trying to kill the platform

GLaDOS-Voice: This test chamber involves heavy ad-tracking and how test subjects react when locked in a shitty mobile app.

Wow. They really can't read the room.

They just keep digging

Damn they turning into quora

Well, that's actually fucking horrible. I would expect nothing less from Reddit tho...

What awful timing to run this experiment.

It's all part of the plan to make their horrid app experience the only way to view Reddit content on mobile, in order for them to get not just some user data, but ALL the user data.

well I an certainly not downloading the app

TBH this is nothing new. They already randomly restrict you from viewing any type of nsfw content on the mobile browser version. It prompts you to download the app with no option to close the prompt.

The fact they are running experiments on their users without opt-in is disgusting. In what world is that okay? Facebook also ran many psychological experiments on their users like shadow-banning them just to see if they felt more alone without telling people. It's gross.

@lynny It's like they don't even want users anymore.

Are they actively trying to make people stop using the site?

What a great time to get off Reddit

And what about people who don’t want to install an app for a variety of reasons?

Wow, they're really shitting the bed aren't they?

No fucking way. Dude.

Reddit speedrun to ruin their site

Reddit is dying in flames, and I couldn't be happier.