Help…did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access, or am I missing a setting?
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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...

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.

https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F

  • ultraHQ@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    Note: you will most likely still be able to view from mobile browser via teddit even after the api cutoff date

    • SickIcarus@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      Good to know, but why would you want to at that point? Why would you want to fight a company and use work-arounds to try to use their product?

      • ultraHQ@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        It will still be a useful repository of knowledge. It’s going to be a hard transition, most of the time when I google something I need to append site:reddit.com, to get a useful answer

        • crank@beehaw.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          reddit has been such a tremendous resource for me over the years. I feel so sad that it will become obscured to most people.

          • ultraHQ@beehaw.org
            4·
            1 year ago

            Absolutely. The value from the knowledge that I’ve gained from reddit is intangible. It will be next to impossible for me to not use it as reference material in the future. I mean we’re talking about close to 2 decades of crowdsourced information.

            Being able to filter out bad information with downvotes was also amazing, and part of the reason I will most likely be moving away from beehaw communities (no downvotes, wtf?? trying to be youtube, eh? 🤣 )

            • crank@beehaw.org
              1·
              1 year ago

              Ya if you trust the subreddit community the upvotes are extremely useful though they have their weaknesses.