[uw_rob]

I am not so sure that I agree here. What's interesting about reddit is that it is one site with very different UIs. The official reddit app has a focus on video/images and looks to be in competition with TikTok. old.reddit.com and Apollo are very much text centric apps. From my understand, reddit has a traffic breakdown of 50/50 on the text centric vs. visual centric UIs. With the UIs like Apollo being killed, and old.reddit.com eventually going away as well[0], I think users will genuinely leave as they have killed the text based UIs.

[0] Despite any promises, the writing is on the wall.

[skinnymuch]

Is desktop new Reddit counting as text centric? From what others have said, 3rd party apps and old reddit have relatively low usage.

[Rebelgecko]

On the sub I mod, old and new reddit are basically neck and neck with ~10% of traffic. The bulk of traffic comes from apps, but I don't think there's a breakdown in the modtools of 1p vs 3p apps

[paradox460]

They killed compact a few months ago, in light of recent events probably to drive people to the "official" apps

[Somdubai]

Compact was perfect for me and its death really has curtailed my usage of Reddit

[paradox460]

Glad you liked it. 13 years ago reddit had an absolutely atrocious mobile experience, and was unusable on my (then new) Motorola Droid (milestone). So it was mostly a labor of "what do I need to browse reddit".

KeyserSosa, reddit's GM at the time and now their CTO, was rather supportive of my development efforts; let me make the crappy little thing I was building an official part of reddit after a conversation on IRC