Can I just say something super weird? I was recently looking for a solution to an issue I had and I needed to look at an image that I could see clearly so I had to zoom in, but because if I’m in the Reddit website, zooming in actually zooms into the Reddit UI, I did what I used to always do and opened the image in a new tab. No longer does that open the image only. It now opens the image AND some Reddit UI around it so guess what happened when I tried to zoom in? That’s right, I zoomed into the UI so I still couldn’t see the image!!! What the hell, Reddit, it’s almost as if you don’t want people to use your website anymore??
It’s so you cannot share the image by itself. A static page with .jpg and nothing else won’t have all that sweet tracking and ads that everyone should enjoy.
Yeah, I believe that was a change they made not long after shafting 3rd party apps. I had a couple older iOS devices with their own older versions of third party apps, and that change effectively made any post with a Reddit uploaded image unviewable. Incredibly infuriating and I can’t understand the logic behind it either.
I will say that further to that, a few years ago Imgur made a change that does the same damn thing if it detects you’re on mobile. Unless you tick “Show Desktop Site” in your browser, it’s impossible to actually standalone view a direct image.
Presumably to disable that hot linking from other websites/apps. Especially if they use scrapers.
But yeah, bad ux.
It’s almost like Pinterest. Ugh.
Reddit has a desktop app?
Goodbye old.reddit!
fucking. why. if new reddit is soooooo fucking good just stick with it.
They only care about monetization. If they can achieve that easier with a new UI you know they’re going to do that. Old.reddit.com and the current www.reddit.com are both expendable if they can make more money without them. This is the new, publicly-traded corporation Reddit. Tradition be damned, they will make their money in whatever manner pays best.
If people thought algorithms were bad before, they’re about to get a titans times worse for Reddit.
I have a self-hosted troddit instance I use to check up on smaller communities, or to replace Reddit.com queries from search engine results with abs when it loads the front page vs the Reddit.com front page is vastly different.
There’s no surprise why they got rid of the api, because they’re playing with engagement and need more direct access.
Reddit is pretty much AOL Online to me at this point.
AOL Online
America Online Online?
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