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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of people that only interact with social media through apps in this day and age. Even on Reddit I would be surprised if the old design is more than a few percent of the user base.

It honestly does raise the question of why they are still maintaining the old UI. It seems like it would be an annoying legacy product to keep alive for a tiny part of the user-base. Perhaps it’s used as an API stability canary or something though.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Not at all. I'm comparing the vast majority that only consume to a small minority that actually interact and provide the content that others consume. Without that minority all that would be left is bot comments.

    Reddit pushes an ad and tracking infested app to make money off the consumers while doing the minimum to keep the content submitters on the site even if they make no money off them. I wouldn't be surprised if old reddit was a couple percent of users but 25% of the comments that aren't bots.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I would like to agree that most of the original contributions on Reddit today come from people who use old Reddit.

    I know this because while I have not had an account there for a while; when I was there, I networked with others to know trends of how they connected

    I don’t think this preference has changed , and probably even more use old now

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