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Comment by svnpenn | Hacker News Reader

I swear, the Reddit mobile site is the biggest piece of shit I have seen in a long time. First, it asks you every single time to use the app, even if you hit no every single time. Then it shows you literally 3 comments before you scroll into some other random fucking post that I don't care about. Fuck Reddit.

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The worst part is on a technical level it works fine. It is intentionally crippled for business reasons. They have also been trying to optimise for consuming as much content as fast and for as long as possible. Showing full comment threads and then ending the page is a prompt for someone to finish reading and turn off their phone while if you can show them a never ending stream of crap they will view for longer and see more adverts.

Try one of these:

https://old.reddit.com/

https://i.reddit.com/

e.g. for this post:

https://old.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/ojohbq/update...

https://i.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/ojohbq/update_s...

My """favorite""" part is that if you use old.reddit.com, you have to go on the new website to accept the cookie notice.

Try a 3rd-party client app like "rif is fun". As a bonus, it nicely segregates your Reddit identity from your regular browser.

My favourite app by far. If only I could swipe on a picture to show picture of the next post immidiately, that would be awesome.

Slide for Reddit has that.

https://teddit.net

I wonder if leadership has intentionally made the decision that losing users to mobile frustration and third party apps is worth it to increase first party app conversion or if they're just ignorant.

They are barely losing any one. The people complaining on places like HN are a tiny amount. People on HN consistently believe the echo chamber here is far more important than it really is.

Came here to say the exact same thing. Probably the most frustrating mobile site I deal with these days. And it's intentional!!

On my iPhone I use a shortcut from the share pane which opens up the current page in Narwhal. It's another step but makes it a much better user experience than the mobile site.

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