Some of the niche communities I frequent unfortunately haven’t made it to Lemmy so I have to check back in periodically. Recently Stealth hasn’t been working that well for me so I tried the browser, but Reddit blocks MullvadVPN…So I created a throwaway just for reading Reddit…and guess what? The app is an absolute mess. Still laggy, still choppy, still buggy. Legit, the first community I randomly clicked on gave me this graphical glitch. How tf can this massive corporation make such an awful app still?
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But it isn’t. The end user interface is also the mobile app and it used to also be third party apps. They are all interfaces that work on the same platform (or “shitshow” as user mojofrodojo pointed out). Even curl can be an interface for Reddit, technically speaking, but I don’t know if they allow that.
Fine. If it helps you manage your issues, you can call it a platform. That doesn’t change the fact that there is absolutely no need to use an app to access it, and then moan about how bad that app is.
No there is no need. If that’s your whole point, than I agree with that. Mobile users expect an app though. The web interface on mobile isn’t optimal compared to what a dedicated app could offer. People know how good it could be, they’ve experienced how good it could be, but they feel like the decision to make the app like it is, is screwing their user experience and they’re salty about it.
It’s like when your company car used to be a Ferrari, but management wants to make more profit, so they’ve exchanged it for a Honda. Your point would be that you can just forfeit the lease car in favor of extra salary and lease your own Ferrari and that’s a fair point, but that doesn’t deal with the fact that you feel like management screwed you over and you have to take car of all the paperwork too and private lease probably also influences your credit score.