[ayushgp]

Reddit forces you to download the app now. You can scroll like 2-4 pages worth of content and then it'll pop up asking you to open in app.

On every page you navigate to from within the website you'll first get a pop up asking to choose between browser and reddit app.

[e2le]

I'm using old.reddit.com and wasn't aware they started doing this. Reddit is turning into a dumpster fire, it's bad enough I have to use the old UI so that it doesn't burn a hole in the cpu.

[virgilp]

Forget the CPU usage, I only use the old UI because it's better/ I find it more usable.

Or maybe I'm just getting old :D

[J5892]

It's both.

The new UI is terrible and barely useable. But Gen-Z is used to barely useable UX. (looking at you, Snapchat)

[e2le]

I wont disagree there, it's not useable. I wonder what possessed them into believing any of this was a good idea.

[cwzwarich]

The new UI increases the similarity between posts and ads, making you more likely to mistakingly click on an ad.

[SirLotsaLocks]

the new UI is so uncomfortable to use, I don't like how bloated websites are becoming, but usually I can cope with it. Reddit's is just bad. It's buggy, it's inconsistent, and its resource-intensive.

[hyperbovine]

> I'm using old.reddit.com

Heyo that's awesome! I feel ten years younger.

[ripdog]

It's worth noting that Reddit has a vibrant community of excellent third party apps, none of which display Reddit ads.

[mindajar]

Which means Reddit is almost certainly going to break all of them, eventually.

[Nursie]

> On every page you navigate to from within the website you'll first get a pop up asking to choose between browser and reddit app.

There's a user setting for this, somewhere. I found it once. It's default on but once you un-check it you no longer see the app nags. It's great. And terrible they hid it like that.

--edit-- Or there was, damned if I can find it now.

[DocG]

Reddit outside of old.reddit.com is a dumpster fire. I specially dislike those JS loading icons on mobile, it's just so slow...

[ansible]

You can turn off the prompting for the app in the top-right menu. You don't even need to log in for that.

[alex_free]

If I’m ever on YouTube or Reddit I always set request desktop site to always in Safari on iOS.