They do the same thing with the mobile site. They've made it completely unusable in most mobile browsers. You almost immediately get prompted to open it in the app, and it's very pushy about it. You can request the desktop version, which works fine, but at least in the ios chrome you can't set it to load the desktop version by default. I've heard you can in firefox, but that means switching my default browser, just to defeat Reddit's anti-user tactics.

It's very, very transparently just to drive traffic to their app so they have more control. My solution was a third party app. Once that's gone I'll just stop coming at all on the phone, which is easily 90 percent of my time on reddit.

I hope potential investors know they are buying a product that is only in business based on the goodwill of the userbase, and that goodwill has been poisoned through incompetence time and time again.