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What is worse, is that even though I installed the official app to squelch this nonsense (the Fuck You Pattern is effective) the mobile site still prompts with
by rescripting 5y ago
What is worse, is that even though I installed the official app to squelch this nonsense (the Fuck You Pattern is effective) the mobile site still prompts with "Open in the Reddit App".
When I click it my iPhone opens the App Store. The App Store then has a big blue "Open" button to launch the app, but of course all context is lost and opening from there brings you to your Reddit front page.
- bo0tzz 5y agoI'll one up this - I use an alternative, unofficial app for reddit. Until recently the 'open' button on their website would take me into that specific app - as you would expect - but since last week or so it's started sending me to the Google Play store page for the official app instead.
- lonbigtech 5y agoWhat browser are you using on your phone?
- rescripting 5y agoSafari, nothing fancy.
- judge2020 5y agoReddit's app registers itself as a uri handler for reddit links but (thanks to google) AMP or iframe results don't prompt the actual system uri handler that would take you to the app.
- rescripting 5y agoOh wow, is this what happens when multiple Fuck You Patterns collide?
- dmurray 5y agoIsn't that a failure of the reddit devs rather than of Google? They could have the app register for amp.reddit.com links.
- tshaddox 5y agoWhoa, is that what this is? I’ve been wondering for quite some time why in the world Reddit hasn’t figured out how to make the “open in the app” links actually work. It’s bonkers that they spend so much effort making the web site push you to the app, but don’t even provide a working way to open a piece of content in the app.
- seanp2k2 5y agoSo much this. Now that I know it works this way, I just try to ignore any promising-looking search results from any of the sites that do this, because I don’t feel like trying to search for the same thing in their app because they broke their mobile site and broke the “open in app” by assuming I don’t already have it.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoUse Apollo or (better) quit reddit, IMHO.
- swilliamsio 5y agoI use Baconreader on Android and its great. I've heard loads of great things about unofficial reddit apps and nothing good about the official app.