[corobo]

> "The mobile experience was improved" It wasn't. It's designed to be so frustrating you just download the app.

This is an absolute joke yeah. The page even has a button overlay "This looks better in the app" which I would take as an insult if I was their web dev but each to their own.

[keanebean86]

Sometimes the click detection on the continue button is off so it pretends I clicked "Open in app" which is beyond frustrating.

I would just use another website but I can't find one that has a similar mixture of cat gifs, old memes, far left propaganda, and occasional science news.

[RankingMember]

> Sometimes the click detection on the continue button is off

The way that it only does that with that button really makes it hard for me to believe it's not intentional

[xNeil]

This might help: https://www.theverge.com/22275453/reddit-app-pop-up-turn-off...

[baxtr]

Anyone why they try to get users into their app so hard? I mean if people are logging anyway tracking them is feasible on the web too.

[WhyCause]

Monetization.

You can't use an ad blocker (easily) in an app, so they get to show you ads.

If you decide to buy reddit gold (or whatever they're calling it now), then they get the money from that instead.

[GekkePrutser]

It's Reddit premium now, and they more than doubled the price :(

[MrPatan]

Yes, it's because an app lets them get more information about you than a website. Even if you don't give an app any permissions (which many people will do anyway).

[kitd]

Settings on the mobile page has an option to switch off "Ask to open in app". I don't see the "Use app" button now.

[monocasa]

It pretty regularly forgets that setting for me.

[Mindwipe]

> The page even has a button overlay "This looks better in the app" which I would take as an insult if I was their web dev but each to their own

If you're a web dev working on the Reddit redesign I assume you're long past caring or any form of shame.