Seems like a lot of companies are trying to go “mobile first” while their apps are still missing core features found on their websites…so I just continue to use the websites, even if they are slower.

I don’t think I’m being unreasonable in wanting simple things to work. Things like preserving newlines in code blocks in the Reddit app—since 95% of my subs are technical—or showing what comment of mine someone is replying to in the Imgur app—since it might be anything I’ve commented on in the past few days, or years if someone was browsing in Random mode.

My mental response to those banners - particularly on aggregator sites, but also for content sites - is "does your app support tabbed browsing? Thought not." Losing tabs is an experience downgrade. Apps are almost always worse than the browser for a site that isn't actually an application.

Where the app is usually just a browser window with some different chrome components.

Still uses the same "slow mobile web" underneath.

They continue doing this although their webapp is working perfectly fine. They are doing it in a very persistent and very annoying way. It keeps me from opening the first thread per browsing session with it's deliberately mislabeled "go back" button, you have to press to not leave the browser.

The IPO announcement a few months after that abomination showed up was certainly predictable.

Their app is deplorable. I got so annoyed with the prompting that I installed it, but it was just bad. Slow, didn't load more than 4 posts at a time, hard to navigate... :(

Nothing is more obnoxious than Tumblr, which blocks you reading further in the site past the last few posts unless you download their app (or request desktop site)