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The breakdown of this generous interpretation to me is that everyone knows people really don't want a ton of apps on their device, specifically for privacy/secu
by sgc 7y ago
The breakdown of this generous interpretation to me is that everyone knows people really don't want a ton of apps on their device, specifically for privacy/security reasons. I visit no other site that force feeds their app to the extent reddit does. If they can't set a cookie and fuck off for a long while, forget it. I will never install it because of this, and if ff mobile with desktop requests did not exist, I would no longer visit their site on mobile.
Also what is the point of a native app for a website? Doesn't the browser do a better job already? Are they not just using a webview?
- csharptwdec19 7y ago> The breakdown of this generous interpretation to me is that everyone knows people really don't want a ton of apps on their device, specifically for privacy/security reasons. "But Our Company is different, and that's why we need %useless_feature_they_saw_in_another_app_unrelated_to_industry% to help hook users in." Admittedly this thinking was a lot more common in the earlier half of the decade, but I've still seen it at other orgs.
- boring_twenties 7y agoThere are third-party apps for reddit that are pretty good, including Slide which is GPL and available on F-Droid.
- sgc 7y agoThird party is a bird of a different feather. The point is to modify the site to make it more useable, ala RES. But I have res on ff mobile and that is enough for me.
- boring_twenties 7y agoI use RES with FF on the desktop but on the phone an app like Slide is easily 10x better, IMO.