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I hate the mobile Reddit site. It's slow to load, obtuse to navigate, and pushes the crappy mobile app on me. Before now, I had complained plenty, just not to

I hate the mobile Reddit site. It's slow to load, obtuse to navigate, and pushes the crappy mobile app on me. Before now, I had complained plenty, just not to Reddit.

ryanmerket 9y ago
To be fair, the mobile site was the last thing shipped by the last administration and hasn’t had much love since.
digi_owl 9y ago
Why i go to i.reddit.com if i do not have a mobile device with an app (preferably Redreader on Android) within reach.
xkjkls 9y ago
Why not use the app? That seems like a better investment of their time to optimize anyways.
- yellowapple 9y ago
  I personally do use an app, but not the official one (because Slide is better). Still, though, for platforms that might lack a good reddit app, a good mobile site is kind of important.
- bluGill 9y ago
  Because my phone's storage is 98% full. I need to delete some apps not install a new one. An app that wants to be installed needs to prove value. (I wish I could uninstall gmail and other such built in programs that I have no use for)
- twoquestions 9y ago
  The app auto downloads and plays video and such and eats a ton of bandwidth, the mobile site lets me pick and choose what to download and see.
- Someone1234 9y ago
  The app is a wrapper around a mobile site. A better question is what value-adds does the app provide over Safari/Chrome? Particularly as now notifications can be enabled straight from mobile browsers.
  - russh 9y ago
    More robust tracking and native ad support, you know all the things you demand from a mobile site app.
- mileycyrusXOXO 9y ago
  Why would I use an app for something when a web browser provides a better experience with fewer bugs and a richer feature set? The app and mobile site quickly run out of memory after a page or two of gifs. The app does not allow you to open content in other tabs. This is problematic if I want to follow a trail of links and resume where I left off in the feed or comments; I have to mash the back button repeatedly. Additionally, I can't open a new tab to look into comments or a link later. The mobile site and app have issues with sorting by top / newest every now and then, and often will fail to load content altogether - leaving the user with a white screen. (I've reproduced this in firefox & chrome on Android, and safari and firefox on iOS) The mobile site and app take longer to load comments and additional content - and sometimes fail to load all together. Whereas the desktop version of the site loads almost instantaneously and almost never fails. The app does funky things with copy pasting of text. The mobile site sometimes crops half the images, making it a pain to click through. Downloading images / saving getting an images source URL can be a pain on the mobile site / app. And of course, the mobile site spams you constantly to download their app. I can't use an adblocker, privacy related plugins or browse incognito in the app.
- nightski 9y ago
  No tabs. It's UI is more awkward than the mobile site itself. Honestly just not as good of an experience.

I hate the mobile Reddit site. It's slow to load, obtuse to navigate, and pushes the crappy mobile app on me. Before now, I had complained plenty, just not to Reddit.

ryanmerket 9y ago

To be fair, the mobile site was the last thing shipped by the last administration and hasn’t had much love since.

digi_owl 9y ago

Why i go to i.reddit.com if i do not have a mobile device with an app (preferably Redreader on Android) within reach.

xkjkls 9y ago

Why not use the app? That seems like a better investment of their time to optimize anyways.

yellowapple 9y ago
I personally do use an app, but not the official one (because Slide is better). Still, though, for platforms that might lack a good reddit app, a good mobile site is kind of important.
bluGill 9y ago
Because my phone's storage is 98% full. I need to delete some apps not install a new one. An app that wants to be installed needs to prove value. (I wish I could uninstall gmail and other such built in programs that I have no use for)
twoquestions 9y ago
The app auto downloads and plays video and such and eats a ton of bandwidth, the mobile site lets me pick and choose what to download and see.
Someone1234 9y ago
The app is a wrapper around a mobile site. A better question is what value-adds does the app provide over Safari/Chrome? Particularly as now notifications can be enabled straight from mobile browsers.
- russh 9y ago
  More robust tracking and native ad support, you know all the things you demand from a mobile site app.
mileycyrusXOXO 9y ago
Why would I use an app for something when a web browser provides a better experience with fewer bugs and a richer feature set? The app and mobile site quickly run out of memory after a page or two of gifs. The app does not allow you to open content in other tabs. This is problematic if I want to follow a trail of links and resume where I left off in the feed or comments; I have to mash the back button repeatedly. Additionally, I can't open a new tab to look into comments or a link later. The mobile site and app have issues with sorting by top / newest every now and then, and often will fail to load content altogether - leaving the user with a white screen. (I've reproduced this in firefox & chrome on Android, and safari and firefox on iOS) The mobile site and app take longer to load comments and additional content - and sometimes fail to load all together. Whereas the desktop version of the site loads almost instantaneously and almost never fails. The app does funky things with copy pasting of text. The mobile site sometimes crops half the images, making it a pain to click through. Downloading images / saving getting an images source URL can be a pain on the mobile site / app. And of course, the mobile site spams you constantly to download their app. I can't use an adblocker, privacy related plugins or browse incognito in the app.
nightski 9y ago
No tabs. It's UI is more awkward than the mobile site itself. Honestly just not as good of an experience.