It's still shady af

Well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discove...

For some time this triggered a Facebook 500. Now just a 400 and a blank page.

https://www.instagram.com/%ed

That "%ed" trick works with some pages, I wonder what it does to them.

https://www.reddit.com/%ed https://outlook.com/%ed

Yes but you are supposedly not serving the GIF but the mp4 video.

wow, that's an awful UI. Reminds me of the gloomy days of 9gag, circa 2010.

What is SA? Something Awful?

Ah oops. Yes.

You can still access the old site by using i.reddit.com or adding .compact to any url: https://www.reddit.com/.compact

Thanks. The mobile site has a banner that takes up a lot of the screen advertising their app. I don't want their app, and I can't dismiss the advert. Still, it's saved me wasting time browsing.

There is a twinge of irony in mentioning "wasting time browsing" reddit. :)

(And yes, I realize the inherent irony in pointing that out here as well.)

Why don't you want the app?

It's a website, I already have an app for that, it's my web browser. No desire to spend my limited phone storage space on something I can just use my web browser for.

I prefer the information density on the old web version and don't like the inline images. I'm mainly on subs where it's just text.

Tabs. Loading on mobile still takes a second or two. Tabs help with this. All those native apps usually staring at blank screen half the time. And I have 4g and top of the line phone.

The new version of the mobile web app has this issue too, where comments take ages to load. Older phone but 4g too.

Yes it can be dismissed. There's a link that says "No thanks", doesn't it appear for you?

No - up to date iOS on iPhone 5s.

That's weird. I have a 5s as well. And it appears.

https://i.imgur.com/ZwRMtJC.png

Maybe it's your ad blocker?

Yes, but that test only applies to official apps... Do we have usage data on those? Especially taking into account very good apps already existed and most users probably couldn't be arsed to switch to the official one.

Those official apps have lots of downloads, but don't be fooled: I bet most people downloaded them because of the free three months of reddit gold you got when you logged into them.

The 16 subreddits in the 5/24 test were for the Web UI (the primary Reddit platform), not the App UI, which was available to all subreddits at launch.