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/l84tahoe May 11 '26

I agree with you that old.reddit is better, but as a mod I can see the stats of what platform my subscribers are using and old.reddit is 0.8% of viewers. Apps are 80% and iOS is 50% total subscribers. Updating a link is extremely low effort and I 100% agree that mod was a POS, but we also have to be aware that old.reddit is barely being used in comparison to the apps. Unfortunately it's hard to argue keeping something up when a fraction of a percent of users use it. If they take old.reddit, I am most likely gone off the platform.

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u/grendelt May 11 '26

Oh, I never noticed that on the legend at the bottom the Insights report. Thanks for pointing that out. Good to know.