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Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.world/post/57306

As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not gonna lie, watching reddit burn down is kinda exciting, I will miss reddit, but its time to leave for greener pastures

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm saving my popcorn for when they take over all the shutdown subs and kick out all their mods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I read this insane "well, Reddit admins will just reopen all the closed subs and things will just keep going like before." And I just can't stop thinking about what a shit show some of those big (and all ready quite toxic) will become. You can't just swap out a group of people to moderate million+ subreddits. It's all just toxic, racist memes all the way from now on.

And tons of nice niche subs will also go down in flames. Kinda sad, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I kind of feel the same about twitter, but it is not completely dead yet. I probably need to get some more popcorn.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like watching people drill holes in a sinking boat to let the water out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hear me out... What if /u/spez is trying to burn it down and fuck the IPO

[–] lich_hegemon 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not trying to burn it down. They don't care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How could Reddit ever be a new tiktok???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Steve Huffman is trying to stir up all the shit and get fired with a golden parachute, then the remaining team can blame it on him and reverse almost nothing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They sure are racing to the bottom as quick as they can huh?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This is just the natural consequence of IPO's and generally what happens when greed replaces stewardship and community. Profit-seeking was always at odds with user-driven content, it was managable up untill big stupid money managed by disinterested parties got involved, and now we're just in the late stages of Enshitification.

[–] fubo 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In web site management, experiments deployed to a fraction of users are a great thing for testing new features, or for comparing different UI approaches. They let you find out things like "users use the help button more often if it's next to the search box instead of at the top right" or "people click on ads more if they have a cute pink background".

Literally turning off the service for a fraction of users is, um, not the sort of experiment worth performing. You already know what happens when you have an outage, because you've had outages before. The only difference is that by doing it deliberately, you show that it's not the tech that's unreliable; it's the people running it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re trying to see if they can force people onto the app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spoiler: They couldn't. No one running the mobile browser on purpose is gonna use their app.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to defend reddit or anything, but the linked post and comment are 1 month old.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anything, that makes it more obvious the mobile browser block is related to the API shutdown. Two sides of taking back all the mobile users into their own client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Old reddit no longer works unless you're logged in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop spreading lies, Reddit is already doing a lot of bullshit you don’t have to make stuff up to make them look bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not lies, that's certainly been the case for me. If I visit old reddit, I get a broken page. If I log in and then visit old reddit, it works.

Maybe they're doing a google and rolling out the change gradually across different regions.

[–] bizzwell 7 points 1 year ago

Reddit experimenting with blocking user comments and posts. Trials ad-only service.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they somehow manage to block universal access to the vast knowledge reddit has accumulated over the years, especially for technical stuff, it will be a tragedy. I have learned so much on that website...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With behaviour like this, they deserve to burn down. Incredible timing to do this as well.

All the more reason to rebuild the useful communities on a different platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is true. Leave the corporate to themselves and preserve the community.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This can't be real... what the hell are they thinking?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Capitalism has never and will never lead to innovation in anything other than extracting profits.

They're just so entirely bad at it they manage to not make profits on a website with nearly as much traffic as Instagram while paying close to nobody for moderation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, if they don't want me to use their platform, I guess I won't. No need to boycott if I can't use it in the first place

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

can't they just change the mobile browser experience in the way that the shareholders want? i don't understand forcing people onto the app

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

App can mine more data which is the real product.

[–] i_simp_4_tedcruz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way reddit is behaving, if they think anyone is going to let their dirty lil mining app on their device, they're drunk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately that's probably a majority of users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, they are experimenting on their users, and doing so in the bad way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think they ever confirmed it, but I'm pretty sure for a while they were experimenting with blocking people who used VPNs too. There was about two weeks where reddit just didn't work on my laptop and I couldn't figure out why, until I saw a thread where other people were discussing it and someone said try it without the VPN. Sure enough, that did it. Then after a couple of weeks it went back to normal again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just like Dr. Mengele!

"These eyes are brown...I would prefer them to be blue!" -spez

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha wow. What an effective way to describe it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Geez... I am curious over how many will enjoy their app. I never did lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mobile platforms need an effective way to block data hoovers. There is a reason everything is an app now and that is that mobile platforms aren't safe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Testing something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yo guys get your popcorn

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