“The very first thing a user wants to do when visiting your web site in their web browser is to install a mobile application.”
I’m not sure how true this claim is but NO. I wish this trend would die. Stop nagging me to open Reddit in the app.
This article is satire if you didn't notice
I didn't and I am embarrassed! I didn't even scroll down and immediately stopped reading after the first paragraph.
It gets better ;-)
Ironically, now I'm seeing yet another anti-pattern in Medium, which is that the pictures don't display with an adblocker, another way of making me turn it off.