Hacker News Reader

100% does not work for me. Tried the various things suggested in the twitter thread and I always end back at the "get the app" page.

Thanks for confirming. I was more responding to the title claim, which seems incorrect - the desktop site option clearly still works for others. It may be a bug, or a new policy but time will tell.

I found that you have to enable desktop mode before entering slack on mobile. If you have visited slack with a mobile user agent, it will force you to download the app even if you enable desktop mode.

Thread may have been updated since you viewed. Slack confirmed this new “feature.”

yeah - I read their response at the time, but it occurred to me it may have been a response in haste or a misreading (it's the desktop option on mobile browsers; mobile browsing per se isn't supported for a long time I think), or a pragmatic implied "until we've investigated" as it worked for me on testing, and others, and its probably a skeleton support crew over Xmas.

Works fine for me on iOS safari.