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by judge2020 1821 days ago
Reddit's app registers itself as a uri handler for reddit links but (thanks to google) AMP or iframe results don't prompt the actual system uri handler that would take you to the app.
3 comments

Oh wow, is this what happens when multiple Fuck You Patterns collide?
I think you just encountered the clusterfuck pattern
"Don't cross the streams."
Whoa, is that what this is? I’ve been wondering for quite some time why in the world Reddit hasn’t figured out how to make the “open in the app” links actually work. It’s bonkers that they spend so much effort making the web site push you to the app, but don’t even provide a working way to open a piece of content in the app.
Isn't that a failure of the reddit devs rather than of Google? They could have the app register for amp.reddit.com links.