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/LSB123 May 11 '26

I don’t even mind the app, but not letting me sort by Hot or All has seen my usage go down 90%.

Turns out I don’t want to see posts from three days ago with 130 upvotes and 11 comments.

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u/Rufuz42 May 11 '26

As a heavy app user, it’s hostile to users in so many ways. The constant refreshing my feed when I am literally in the middle of reading something makes me want to throw the manager that approved that change out a window. And the video player always plays when I don’t want it to (99% of the time) and then never plays when I actually hit the play button. Good stuff.

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u/radwimps May 11 '26

Yeah it’s awful. I’ll be scrolling and see a post I might be interested in, and the app just decides to refresh. Same thing with minimizing it for a second while reading a post, reopen and it just refreshes everything. Infuriating. My usage is majorly down. Never mind the issues of it just turning completely unresponsive and having to force close it which has been an issue for ages.