54 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Reddit is ProCSS
What frustrates me is when subreddits require their users to interact with their CSS in some way (like mandatory flairs or other things), and then that fucks over mobile users because the mods of that sub forget that most people browse Reddit via mobile now.
Like, I almost prefer that CSS wasn't permitted because it angers me so much when I get an AutoModerator comment that says my post was removed because I couldn't add flair since I posted from mobile.
Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2017 at 04:38 UTC*
32 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I understand the sentiment, but you CAN add flairs to threads on many of the mobile apps. It's easy to do as well and I personally love thread flairs, particularly on gaming subs.
Comment by sellyme at 13/05/2017 at 11:28 UTC*
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It doesn't fuck over mobile users, it fucks over mobile users that use apps that haven't been updated in over 5 years and people who aren't willing to read.
I'm a mod of a subreddit with 660k subscribers, and we enforce post flairs because without them it's simply not plausible to moderate the sub. We got given some data from the admins on how users were accessing the subreddit when we started accounting for more traffic on launch than /r/all, and only about 0.4% of mobile users were using applications that didn't allow for post flairing. None of the applications that didn't support it were under active development.
We still receive dozens of complaints a day about it, almost entirely from people who decided not to bother actually checking if their app had a "flair" button and just assuming that it didn't. If those kinds of people get driven away from subreddits due to mandatory flairing systems it's usually regarded as effective policy.
(For what it's worth, the most used access method on phones was through a mobile browser rather than any app, accounting for 93.2% of all mobile traffic)
Comment by kaztrator at 13/05/2017 at 05:17 UTC
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Reddit's mobile site is trash. I always switch to the desktop site when on my phone.