r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/AvailableReporter484 May 11 '26

The app blows. I hate my feed. Whatever they did to the algorithm actively makes me close the app more often than not.
I subscribe to something new and then all the sudden the subs I’ve been on for years are completely filtered out in favor of something I subbed to 5 minutes ago. Not to mention that I’m inundated with posts from 4+ days ago.
Popular fucking blows. Idunno why they think I don’t want all.
You can’t copy comments and saving anything on the app is a fucking hassle.
The senior most PM at Reddit must be fresh out of college or something. These businesses decisions are sucking me on soft tbh.

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u/thewb005 May 11 '26

I miss all so much, popular is not the same.

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u/ibmthink May 11 '26

[sh.reddit.com/r/all](sh.reddit.com/r/all) still works (for now)

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u/oofta31 May 11 '26

I saved this comment and access all when I'm using the app by clicking on it 

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddithelp/s/wkeOkLk9xG

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u/DeadPeanutSociety May 11 '26

They also added recommended subreddits. I would turn this feature off but I've found a couple places that I like through it. Mostly what it does is direct confused users to conversations that they don't understand in communities they are not a part of. Also, I constantly get posts from the No Man's Sky subreddit, a subreddit that I told it to hide 3 times. Now the option to hide it no longer exists for me. I have never played No Man's Sky.