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The author of the tweet missed the obvious reason for that performance, even though he even mentioned that this is the mobile behavior: They want you to use th
by pflenker 7y ago
The author of the tweet missed the obvious reason for that performance, even though he even mentioned that this is the mobile behavior:
They want you to use the app!
The button to open/install the app is clearly visible at an early stage. And since imgur users are the product, and not the customer, you want them in the app where you can retain them more easily (think notifications) and ad-target them more precisely based on all the data you can collect directly on the devices.
- manigandham 7y agoThat's not obvious at all, and many people would rather leave the site than install an app.
- hu3 7y agoBy that logic Reddit does the same: horrible website that pushes users into installing the app. Hasn't worked with a single person I know. I tend to correlate bad website with possibly bad app and I suspect others do too.
- pflenker 7y agoI think reddit is very obvious about it. They only care enough about their mobile website to add huge, impossible to miss „download our app“ callouts and ignore the rest.