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by pseudo0 1834 days ago
Their push for people to use the mobile app has gotten user-hostile to the point of ridiculousness. Some subreddits now just prompt you to either continue in the app or return to the homepage, there's no option to continue in the mobile browser.
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I personally just gave up trying to access Reddit from my mobile browser.

I used to have "Compact Reddit Redirect"[1] on my phone browser. But it got more and more broken in the last two years.

Now, I use RedReader[2][3] on my phone which is open source and gives "an 'old' reddit feel".

It is really sad to use an app to access a website :( . I need to accept that I'm not the target audience of that website anymore...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/compact-reddi...

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...

I gave the app about 5 minutes before the harassment to enable notifications made me uninstall.
I use Apollo on iOS, and recently discovered I can click the share button (at top right of new reddit design), and then select "Open with Apollo".

Yes, it'd be nice if I could auto-open reddit links in my client of choice, but it's like a two-or-three tap thing. I use it increasingly often.