When you try to edit a Reddit comment in their mobile web app, it deletes all line breaks from your comment so you have to remember to manually put them back before submitting.

The other big issue I have is that when you type in and edited comment, it will omit spaces between words at random. JFC, there’s no reason to use anything but a vanilla HTML input element (because only markdown formatting is supported), but they somehow fucked up basic text input anyway!

My last little gripe is that nothing in the interface tells you that markdown is supported, which is extra dumb because the desktop interface tries so hard to hide the fact that markdown even exists.

(And yes, there are a host of other annoyances, but I’m trying to limit my criticisms to things that can only be explained by incompetence.)

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    9 months ago

    Well, I’m thankful for what you will bring to Lemmy!

    I dunno how people put up with the shitty buggy Reddit app that is riddled with ads over so long.

    Mobile browsing was actually not half bad on i.reddit.com (aka .compact mode), a mobile interface developed over 10 years ago that got killed last year.

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      Them dropping i.reddit.com was the second to last straw for me, and a sign of the future.

      Reddit’s management is willing to damage user experience in exchange for profit, and they are absolutely vindictive about it as well.

      They are abusive, plain and simple.

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        9 months ago

        Out of curiosity, what ended up being the final straw for you? (I imagine there were many to choose from)

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          So I reported a thread in one of those rancid niche alt-right ‘frienworld’ type sub where a user had a detailed plan about ramming his car into people at a Trans Rights rally happening two days from then.

          Admins responded ‘We gave them a warning, thanks for letting us know’.

          a day later in a completely unrelated sub I post the reply ‘It is a moral good to punch nazis’, and not only was I banned, but so was everyone in my building (we share fiber).

          That was the last straw.

          I mean I’ve made tons of accounts before and losing the account wasn’t the issue.

          It was the ridiculous disparity in punishments between right-wing legitimate premeditated threats of violence, and a mostly humorous indirect one.

          Fuck every reddit admin in the ass with 2 tons of red-hot industrial rebar.

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            Holy crap. Well for now you’ve found a good home for Nazi-punchers, I can say that much.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah in the past it was fine but now it’s unusable bc they absolutely want you to download their dumb app. No thank you.