Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.world/post/57306
As quoted from the linked post.
It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.
This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.
Archive.org link in case the post is removed.
I’m not gonna lie, watching reddit burn down is kinda exciting, I will miss reddit, but its time to leave for greener pastures
I’m saving my popcorn for when they take over all the shutdown subs and kick out all their mods.
Yeah, I read this insane “well, Reddit admins will just reopen all the closed subs and things will just keep going like before.” And I just can’t stop thinking about what a shit show some of those big (and all ready quite toxic) will become. You can’t just swap out a group of people to moderate million+ subreddits. It’s all just toxic, racist memes all the way from now on.
And tons of nice niche subs will also go down in flames. Kinda sad, tbh.
It’s like watching people drill holes in a sinking boat to let the water out.
They are not trying to burn it down. They don’t care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.
They sure are racing to the bottom as quick as they can huh?
This is just the natural consequence of IPO’s and generally what happens when greed replaces stewardship and community. Profit-seeking was always at odds with user-driven content, it was managable up untill big stupid money managed by disinterested parties got involved, and now we’re just in the late stages of Enshitification.
In web site management, experiments deployed to a fraction of users are a great thing for testing new features, or for comparing different UI approaches. They let you find out things like “users use the help button more often if it’s next to the search box instead of at the top right” or “people click on ads more if they have a cute pink background”.
Literally turning off the service for a fraction of users is, um, not the sort of experiment worth performing. You already know what happens when you have an outage, because you’ve had outages before. The only difference is that by doing it deliberately, you show that it’s not the tech that’s unreliable; it’s the people running it.
Not to defend reddit or anything, but the linked post and comment are 1 month old.
If anything, that makes it more obvious the mobile browser block is related to the API shutdown. Two sides of taking back all the mobile users into their own client.
Stop spreading lies, Reddit is already doing a lot of bullshit you don’t have to make stuff up to make them look bad.
