Comment by a_e_k | Hacker News Reader

Comment by a_e_k | Hacker News Reader

Earlier today I started getting a "Get the app to keep using Reddit" popup when browsing while logged out on my phone. (I prefer to use Firefox Android exclusively in private mode to reduce the temptation to doom scroll and to have the added friction of manually logging in when commenting on any site.)

Unlike the prior nag screens, this one was modal, blocked any scrolling, and had no way to close it. It seemed to pop up about 15 seconds after I first start scrolling any page - either a list of threads on a subreddit, or a thread page itself.

Man I miss the old iOS-looking Reddit mobile (m.reddit.com, IIRC).

My Reddit account is now just a few months short of US drinking age. I've been using the site since before subreddits were a thing (back when the only topic-specific alternative to the general front page was programming.reddit.com). I've posted a lot, modded some, and stuck with them through a lot of stupid decisions over the years. But I'm beginning to think it's finally time to move on; I'm just not sure where to.

I started getting this occasionally months ago. I added these ublock rules and haven't been bothered since but I suspect they will change to a hard wall in future

! 28 Apr 2026 https://www.reddit.com www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct > .bg-transparent www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct

www.reddit.com###xpromo-bottom-sheet reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('prevent-addEventListener', 'touchmove', 'preventDefault') reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('remove-class', 'rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked', 'html, body', 'asap stay') reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; } www.reddit.com##.rpl-bottom-sheet www.reddit.com##body:remove-class(rpl-scroll-lock)

insert double space following newline for <code></code> formatting or use double newline to force a break. double space before newline works on Reddit but not on HN

Difficult on mobile I wish hn would allow ``` blocks and not insist on blank lines to show new lines as I always forget to double space my bullet points too

Alas, you are already on the alternative. Hacker news feels like one of the last hold outs of the old internet.

Literally why I started to come here. r/programming because a derelict wasteland. What commentary you got was frivolous and unhelpful. Posts about CockroachDB there would all be jokes or other commentary on its name, while you'd have the engineers who created it in here. I started to notice a lot of posts with mediocre discussion had a related post in the r/hackernews. While I had come here now and then, I started to see that I could actually still learn stuff here and decided to skip the middle man.

skill issue /s

self selection in action

also quite a haven for bots these days. with robust monetization and a need to assure people that you're interacting with actual people (budling consensus) or clicking ads, you need some measure of "prove they're real". HN don't do that.

It really gives me the heebie jeebies when people refer to Reddit (or any website) as an app, and in general demand that everything that used to be a simple website get turned into a data-hoovering Electron abomination.

They started it late last week on the new reddit. I'd been browsing unlogged in for ages because I'm pretty certain logging in from work via my VPN killed my old reddit account that was 13 plus years old at the time for "ban evasion" from a sub I'd never been banned from. Of course the appeal process was no help so I'd just been browsing offline to avoid the chance that'd happen again with my new account too.

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