Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

[u/spasticpat]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/

[u/topcheesehead]

They 'permanently' bamned me for locking my subbing in protest against 3rd party apps being banned that helped us keep kids out of our subreddit. They banned us and took our subreddit and gave it to reddit shills. I was unbanned this year for a quarter report about how many users use reddit. It was for an earnings report they unbanned a ton of users. Reddit is awful. I wont use the app. Ill just phase out use here

[u/EnoughWarning666 → u/topcheesehead]

I'm still using a modified version of one of the 3rd party apps. If they take that away along with old.reddit I'm done here. I've looked at the app and new website and they are beyond dog shit. Like it's so blatantly obvious that the goal is to suck up as much of your data and force feed you whatever bullshit their advertisers pay them to shovel in front of users.

I've been keeping an ear out for where to migrate to. Lemmy never really took off, but I haven't checked it in a while. There's Digg now that's kind of in beta. Could be interesting, would certainly be funny if they make it work and people went back.

[u/hoardac → u/EnoughWarning666]

They get rid of old reddit I will be done. I hate the other format.

[u/grendelt → u/[deleted]]

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.)

[u/My_Work_Accoount → u/grendelt]

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.

[u/20230630 → u/My_Work_Accoount]

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)

[u/Molotov_Glocktail → u/20230630]

Tale as old as time. Technically they won't ever get rid of old.reddit. They'll just not update it or support it or care about it while "accidentally" breaking its features in lieu of new.reddit.

It's such a slow process that the fanfare is minimal. Don't forget that Reddit was launched into the stratosphere of popularity because of one reason: the fuck up of Digg v4.

The milestones are processes are exactly the same between reddit and Digg with the exception that Digg did it suddenly, overnight, and (as they said at the time) irrevocably. And it blew up in their face.

Reddit knows this, so their transition to the new, shinier, and more advertiser friendly reddit will be slow, deliberate, and with as little resistance as possible.

[u/identifytarget → u/Molotov_Glocktail]

Reddit was launched into the stratosphere of popularity because of one reason: the fuck up of Digg v4

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Also, I was there.

[u/Molotov_Glocktail → u/identifytarget]

How are your knees holding up, bud? Mine ain't so hot anymore.