A broken mess of an app for a decent social media platform
Jeez, where do I start? - The video player takes days to load a 5 second video. - The app sometimes refuses to load anything on cellular data, even when my phone has full bars and loads other apps with no problems. - a misclick can force the app to scroll all the way to the top of the page with no way to go back down where you were other than manually scrolling - sometimes the app refuses to load a png or jpeg image on cellular data, and refuses to let me comment anything - sometimes the app lags or glitches making you comment/reply the exact same thing twice instead just once - there are WAY TOO MANY ads, and no way to decrease their amount or get rid of them. I’m surprised there aren’t any popups or anything - the ads always load long before anything else does - if you forget your password, you could easily make a brand new account with the same email by accident Reddit themselves couldn’t pay anyone to use this app, but they’re trying to force everyone to use this broken mess.
Edit: the latest update leaves you unable to upvote, which is the primary way of interacting with posts. It also leaves you unable to comment, forcing every single user to just observe with no interaction whatsoever
Edit: the latest update leaves you unable to upvote, which is the primary way of interacting with posts. It also leaves you unable to comment, forcing every single user to just observe with no interaction whatsoever
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Freaky, toxic platform
Reddit is rampant with toxic, power-tripping moderators who get off on overreaching their jurisdictions. For example, they can ban a user because that user belongs to another sub - regardless of their engagement in the moderator’s sub.
There is also a supreme lack of freedom of speech and most subs are echo chambers full of seething idiots who ridicule anyone who opposes their opinions. Subsequently, those few ostracised users are often banned.
It’s just disgusting and partly caused by general laziness on Reddit’s behalf, because they want the platform to be as autonomous as possible, without them having to put any effort in.
There is also a supreme lack of freedom of speech and most subs are echo chambers full of seething idiots who ridicule anyone who opposes their opinions. Subsequently, those few ostracised users are often banned.
It’s just disgusting and partly caused by general laziness on Reddit’s behalf, because they want the platform to be as autonomous as possible, without them having to put any effort in.
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Still has the abysmal auto scroll to top feature
The feature is so utterly terrible it made me write a review of something, which I’m not sure I’ve even done before.
It also auto scrolls when you tap the home button in the bottom left corner. So every time I’m scrolling and my palm relaxes on the bottom left, or my thumb brushes the top of the screen, I get sent back to the top and sometimes it refreshes the feed entirely so I can’t even scroll back down to where I was. The UX from this alone makes me wish I could leave two 0 star reviews. I don’t know anyone that likes this feature either.
It also auto scrolls when you tap the home button in the bottom left corner. So every time I’m scrolling and my palm relaxes on the bottom left, or my thumb brushes the top of the screen, I get sent back to the top and sometimes it refreshes the feed entirely so I can’t even scroll back down to where I was. The UX from this alone makes me wish I could leave two 0 star reviews. I don’t know anyone that likes this feature either.
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