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The worst thing I've seen recently is amp URLs for reddit threads. It's one bad thing (new reddit UI) wrapped in a worse thing (AMP), and getting back to classic reddit takes a lot of gymnastics. The stupid part is that the amp page is indistinguishable from the (new) reddit page (the AMP page comes complete with the "download our app" popup). So I don't see how it's providing any speed/experience benefit.

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Exactly. For Reddit the AMP version and the mobile site look almost exactly the same... except the AMP site performs worse due to the AMP restrictions.

So none of the "nice" Reddit mobile site features actually work, and supposed "one-time" annoyances like the "Download the App" pop-up don't get cookied under AMP and continue to annoy on every google search. Insane!

>getting back to classic reddit takes a lot of gymnastics

http://old.reddit.com still works, though

Hope they are sane enough to keep it forever

This isn’t going to be the site that turns up in results, sadly.

Sounds like a job for a userscript / browser extension!

I can never get the Open In Reddit app button to work. I’m on iOS and have the latest version of the official reddit app. Which btw is painfully filled with ads.

On Android I have a similar problem; I use Reddit is fun, and so it doesn't open that app; it always wants to download the main app.

It never works for me either, but there is a workaround. If you click on the 'x comments' link at the bottom of a post, it will open up in reddit is fun.

May I recommend using any 3rd party app for reddit instead of the official app. I use relay on Android and it is great. There are many other options, all of them are better than the official app.

Make sure to try i.reddit.com in a browser, that's also a good option.

Use the Apollo app. Much better than the official Reddit app. It's more like what Alien Blue was before Reddit killed that.

Does that make the “open in app” button on the AMP pages work? Because I have the same problem and I’m basically willing to try anything.

Unfortunately no. But there's an "Open in Apollo" option from the share sheet which works for me. It's just an extra tap to open the share sheet from the AMP page.

Also an easy JB for iPhones was posted this week. With that you can make Apollo your default reddit application.

No but it looks at the clipboard when it takes focus and offers to take you to the post.

You should really try Apollo.

Boost for reddit has been working good for me some quite some time now https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayay...

Same here, it always sends me to the App Store. I already have the app installed.

"The worst thing I've seen recently is amp URLs for reddit threads."

How can I see this very specific example ? I would like to understand exactly what this looks like ...

I am not a reddit user and I don't consume much web content on a phone, which is using Safari on an iPhone ...

Would I need to download google chrome onto my iphone, then do a google search for a reddit thread, then click on that search result ? Or would I see this result in Safari as well ?

Genuinely curious as I would like to recreate this specific result ...

It's something you will routinely see in subreddits. Someone makes a comment wanting to link this thread, and it will say "just have a read of https://google.com/amp/news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322730....

The madenning part is you will see these links when using Firefox or Safari and you'll see them on a desktop. It is of course, not just Reddit thing. I've seen LinkedIn shares look like this.

You just search for and find any reddit thread, and it is absolutely just as shittastic in any browser (I am using Safari on iOS).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/gadgets/commen...

This page is simultaneously encased by AMP, has multiple ways reddit is trying to get me to install an app that isn't going to help me right now as I am hopping between websites--I am going to glance at reddit for ten seconds and then a stackoverflow question and then a bugzilla issue and then a quora thread... the last thing I want right now is to end up in some app--but it also doesn't show me all the comments and is asking me to click through to get them... it used to be I clicked a search result and it showed me the reddit thread, with all the comments and without an app: I liked that :(.

reddit already plagues me with their pop-up insistence that I use their app instead of my mobile browser. Literally stops me from using it more.

How do you even get amp on reddit urls? I've never come across such a scenario (I use desktop browsers on linux).

I usually get them when I open a Reddit link on Google on iOS.

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