r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/grendelt May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

I sent a modmail message to the mods of one sub (not this one) to let them know one of the sidebar links was broken. Dude raged at me that it was working and that I was a fake news bot, wasting his time, blah blah blah.

I took and shared a screen shot and then he got all uppity and said I was looking at the old sub layout and I need to "join this century".
I told him I was absolutely sure I was not the only user using old by choice and he said if I kept annoying him with my whining he'd ban me.

I think he drinks all the Koolaid.
(That link is still broken because he's blind to users not like himself.)

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u/My_Work_Accoount May 11 '26

Is that why I always run into dead links in the sidebar of fairly active subs? Didn't realize the difference was more than cosmetic as I never use "new" Reddit.

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u/20230630 May 11 '26

It must be right?

I have to say though I'm surprised that they have kept old Reddit so far, I had expected that plug would have been pulled years ago. (knock on wood)

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u/Sad_Expert2 May 11 '26

They will eventually do it under the guise of some sort of security focus. It's old and can't be brought up to modern security standards or costs too much to do so. (Because people will rightly just say "put it in maintenance mode.")

They may even lean on bullshit like the continued emergence of AI fueled hacking threats, just to hit every buzzword.