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Comment by mewpmewp2 | Hacker News Reader

What is the worst trash in the world is their mobile web ui. Impossible to search in Google and quickly browse results especially if I want to do it in incognito.

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I hate that they show so much contempt for their users they deliberately broke many basic features (as in they used to work, then they removed them) on mobile web, especially when logged out, to force you onto their app.

Gods but it's shit on mobile!

It only shows about 2 comments by default, and it's difficult to see them all (and often impossible to see them all at once), because you've got to keep clicking at the end of threads to see more, with each click triggering a full page reload.

And recently you can't even do that without logging in - as soon as you hit "More replies" a login prompt appears.

That’s my biggest gripe as well. When opening a reddit thread from google I have to replace ‘www’ with ‘old’ in order to see all the comments, it’s truly absurd.

The only explanation I can think of for this behavior is sheer incompetence.

Its intentional. Even with the redesign it used to be somewhat usable on mobile but they make it worse every update to push you on to the app.

Yeah I would be fine using the app, but it still disables possibility to quickly search site:reddit.com some topic I want to research and go through mostly comments. Then back to search, go on and so on. This is how I browse Reddit a lot of the time anyway.

Maybe I am using wrong app for that though. I am using Relay right now. And it doesn't allow me yo select comments properly coming from Google search. I think I tried Reddit's official app and it didn't work very well too + the context switch of going from chrome to an app.

But yeah I get that they do it intentionally...

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