▲ 235 ▼ Reddit had/has a plan to block mobile browsers in favor of their app (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago* by orientalsniper@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world 167 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] required@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (2 children) If you want your app used so much, just make it snappy damn permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] NorwegianBlues@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (2 children) This is what's amazing. They could make a good, ad-supported app, but they seem to insist they don't need to while wondering why everyone's angry about third party apps going away. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Reddit never needed to fix their own hilariously-bad failure of an app, they could have just bought any of the ready-made, popular, beloved third-party apps out there for far less than this fiasco is costing them now. Old Twitter did this back in the day, some of their official clients started out as successful third-party apps. Spez is out there being an insane libelous asshole to Christian Selig when he could have just hired him. permalink fedilink source parent [–] required@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Yes, like I could give their beloved role model Instagram as an example. They very rarely prompt users to download their app in a small box on their website. And I still use the app because it's so snappy. And they even have a Lite version (~2mb) in case their phone can't handle the original app. This is such an interesting idea actually, spez please make a lite app. Look, Wall Street people have that as well! permalink fedilink source parent [–] meldroc@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago How can they do all the data collection then? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NorwegianBlues@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (2 children) This is what's amazing. They could make a good, ad-supported app, but they seem to insist they don't need to while wondering why everyone's angry about third party apps going away. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Reddit never needed to fix their own hilariously-bad failure of an app, they could have just bought any of the ready-made, popular, beloved third-party apps out there for far less than this fiasco is costing them now. Old Twitter did this back in the day, some of their official clients started out as successful third-party apps. Spez is out there being an insane libelous asshole to Christian Selig when he could have just hired him. permalink fedilink source parent [–] required@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Yes, like I could give their beloved role model Instagram as an example. They very rarely prompt users to download their app in a small box on their website. And I still use the app because it's so snappy. And they even have a Lite version (~2mb) in case their phone can't handle the original app. This is such an interesting idea actually, spez please make a lite app. Look, Wall Street people have that as well! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago Reddit never needed to fix their own hilariously-bad failure of an app, they could have just bought any of the ready-made, popular, beloved third-party apps out there for far less than this fiasco is costing them now. Old Twitter did this back in the day, some of their official clients started out as successful third-party apps. Spez is out there being an insane libelous asshole to Christian Selig when he could have just hired him. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] required@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Yes, like I could give their beloved role model Instagram as an example. They very rarely prompt users to download their app in a small box on their website. And I still use the app because it's so snappy. And they even have a Lite version (~2mb) in case their phone can't handle the original app. This is such an interesting idea actually, spez please make a lite app. Look, Wall Street people have that as well! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago How can they do all the data collection then? permalink fedilink source parent
