Blocking modal windows are a sin and make me less likely to interact with a site. Imgur is also guilty. No, I don't want to participate in your community meme event when I'm just trying to look at an image on the app that is clogging up my RAM because you think it does something important and interesting enough to warrant deeplinking it in an electron wrapper.
Also, while I'm here, fuck modal windows with no X to close button which forces you to read the buttons to figure out which one is the "fuck off" button and not the "take all my money" button.
Hey, remember the days of pop-up windows where the X button was labelled “Open in background” if you hovered over it. At least there’s been some progress. \s
Or the X has the same color as the background, making it hard to see at all and so small, it’s almost unusable on Mobile.
These are all intentional, to make it hard for you. I build websites for a living and clients actually ask for designs that “keep” the user on the site. Since i have no say in things other than the area that affects my work, i sometimes hate my job and have no other way than just do my job.
“Oh, the cancel button is too big. Make it smaller or better yet, don’t make it a button, just a small text link, somewhere at the bottom, with font-size: 9 px … And remove the underline…”
Meh, I opened Reddit just to lurk on the only subreddit I would post on. Recap for that community reminded me it was all one big circle jerk… but now with more advertisements.
Iirc Joe for Reddit was one of the few third party apps, that were able to continue using the api for free ( or almost? ).
I don’t remember what the conditions were though, there was some catch, something they had to feature in their apps in order to get the free api access.
Infinity for reddit was working for me but today I installed android 14 and its now asking to pay for subscription. I am now officially of Lemmy. No more reddit for me.
Edit: i also wanted to make a screenshot of the “account deleted” message, but after clicking on “delete” you’re just redirected to the front page, no confirmation whatsoever… Lame
Edit 2: yes, i deleted all my posts/comments beforehand. At least that was confirmed.
Just use mobile firefox with ublock, you can enable annoyances filter in ublock to get rid of the reddit mobile app reminder as well as other asshole things reddit adds.
All of reddit’s newer design is the definition of asshole design. Once old.reddit.com is killed off the site will be as unusable as X or TikTok is on web for logged out users.
The only way to use Reddit on mobile is to use old Reddit. You have to zoom in to tap on things, but holy hell it’s still so much better than the mobile version of the website.
It’s wild to me that Reddit never developed a reasonably functional mobile version of their site. They bought out a few designs, and relied on 3rd party apps for a while, and now they’re doing their utmost to force everyone to use the garbage pile that is their current design. I just don’t see how it proved such an impossible task for them.
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