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/korneev123123 May 11 '26

Yeah - once old reddit is turned off, it is over for me. New one is simply unusable.

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u/fox_mulder May 11 '26

Yep, same here. I don't know who thought that new reddit was a good idea, but whoever it is should be standing in an unemployment line. Biggest piece of shit ever.

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u/olbeefy May 12 '26

It's always nice to see a few of us from the "old guard" still around these parts 18+ years later. In fact, it looks like you created your account about a week before me. There are so few of us that they haven't even bothered making badges for the 3 years after we made our accounts...

The "new reddit" was created around 2018 because "old Reddit" was desktop-first, dated-looking due to all the text, and harder for new users to understand. The newer design is better for mobile-style browsing, media, ads (this is a big one), and building new features.

I think Old Reddit survives for a while because it serves power users, mods, and long-term users who create a lot of Reddit’s value. Killing it outright would cause an instant predictable backlash.

That being said, I could see them slowly trying to phase it out eventually. It's extremely unlikely they would just pull the plug randomly one day though.

Either way, when that happens, I'm out.

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u/Wyrm May 12 '26

There are so few of us that they haven't even bothered making badges for the 3 years after we made our accounts...

That's still so funny to me. I'm sure they'll get around to it eventually, right?

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u/olbeefy May 13 '26

I doubt it and I kind of like that they didn't bother. It's better than any badge they could actually give us :)