Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
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...
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.
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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.
They’re trying to see if they can force people onto the app.
Spoiler: They couldn't. No one running the mobile browser on purpose is gonna use their app.