-115 upvotes, 11 direct replies (showing 11)
View submission: Updates to notifications, avatar enhancements, a better best sort, and more
This is fair feedback, and we’ve gotten it before so I’ll answer similarly[1]. We’ll always promote our app to mobile users. However, we’re testing ways to be smarter about when and how we promote the app. Some things that are on our roadmap are throttling how often users are prompted to download the app, or asking people to signup/login instead of using the app. And while it's slow progress, we do care about and are working towards making the mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster.
Additionally, if you’re logged in on mobile web, under your settings you can toggle off “Ask To Open In App” to stop receiving that message.
Comment by EtherBoo at 20/01/2021 at 05:05 UTC*
91 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I don't use the official app, I use RIF. Sometimes I'm googling something and a reddit link appears. I don't want to open in the app (or RIF) because then I lose my place in the app. Sometimes I'm searching for something using incognito mode (not necessarily porn, but just a browser that I won't forget to close the tab on because I'll kill the tab through the notification). I get a reddit link. "Do you want to use the reddit app?" No. "Click here to see the rest of this thread!" Then a bunch of other unrelated stuff. Can't you just show me the thread I opened?
It's really annoying, especially when Google spits out multiple reddit links and every time I have to tell it the browser is fine and to show me the rest of the thread/comments.
Comment by TheMusicArchivist at 20/01/2021 at 09:33 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You gave the answer before that you're looking into ways to make it smarter. Let me tell you that every time I open up new reddit by mistake (say by searching google or clicking a link), it asks me to download the app, asks me if I really want to continue in browser, asks me if I want to read the whole article. Well, duh, that's why I clicked it. But I can't stand how slow new reddit is compared to old reddit, too. It takes me 10 seconds to load a page on phone compared to just 1 second. It's actually quicker for me to copy-paste the url string and edit the www to old to read things. There's a lot of things to make smarter.
Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2021 at 04:27 UTC
122 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We’ll always promote our app to mobile users.
Imagine any other situation where it's okay to keep asking for consent, repeatedly, forever, after being repeatedly rejected.
No means no, reddit.
Comment by xenonismo at 20/01/2021 at 05:02 UTC
38 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This wouldn’t even be much of an issue with people *wanting* to use it if the official Reddit app wasn’t trash. It’s been years and several needed features haven’t been added. The app just gives a subpar experience overall.
Comment by atomicllama1 at 20/01/2021 at 05:41 UTC
29 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Its a shady push for people to download the app, stop it. You know it I know it, stop being that way. Its basically a spam pop up ad that will not go away.
Comment by Allofthethinks at 20/01/2021 at 10:14 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I’m sorry, but I don’t want the app, never wanted the app, will never download the app. Stop asking me when I’m logged into my account. It’s annoying as fuck.
Comment by graepphone at 20/01/2021 at 08:20 UTC*
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by DetecJack at 20/01/2021 at 12:10 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Imagine you just want to see pictures from your friend in past so you hop into your computer and find out he has insta, but anything other than three clicks and one scroll down and it stops you and forcefully demands you to use the app
This is how i feel with reddit browser
Comment by automated_reckoning at 20/01/2021 at 09:23 UTC*
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"This is fair feedback, but fuck you."
This is why all reddit users just love the admins.
Comment by saltlets at 20/01/2021 at 08:49 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can't you just track based on cookies whether the visitor has an active reddit account and not nag them about the app when they're googling something quick on their phones? Or add a setting down in account settings so that logged on mobile web users can opt out of "use the app" spam?
I look at Reddit mobile when I have googled for something specific and just need that information. I don't want to be thrown into the app.
I understand that you're a business and want to win over new users, but annoying existing users is a great way to lose their eyeballs altogether.
Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2021 at 04:51 UTC
15 upvotes, 0 direct replies
yuck