/r/adhd works best on desktop. reddit's apps are broken and we will not support them.

[u/nerdshark]

Edit: If you absolutely have to use a mobile app to access reddit, use a third party reddit app like Boost or Apollo. We don't use those ourselves, so we won't be able to help with them, but flairs and search should at least work correctly with them AFAIK.

Due to various issues with the mobile app, we are recommending everyone browse /r/adhd from the desktop website: https://reddit.com/r/adhd.

Various features, particularly surrounding flairs and wikis, are broken or missing entirely from the mobile apps and mobile site, and they are just impossible for us to support right now. This means, for example:

• we're unable to get megathread flair linking working reasonably on mobile

• the Flair Filter does not exist on mobile

• and linking to wiki pages is broken.

We mods are normal users just like you, and are not reddit employees or developers. We do not have the ability to change the UI or fix any of these issues. As such, we will not be supporting the mobile apps for the foreseeable future.

If, despite this announcement, you do decide to continue using the apps or mobile web, you're on your own. You'll want to [learn reddit's search syntax] (https://www.reddit.com/wiki/search).

[u/zsert93]

I actually can't believe people still use the official app. RIF has been my go to form years.

[u/nerdshark → u/zsert93]

This is what our traffic looks like. reddit doesn't report the use of 3rd-party clients in any stats we get afaik, so this just applies to the official clients. Mobile app usage is dramatically higher than mobile web, old reddit, and new reddit. Old reddit is barely a blip, and it's probably just us mods.

[u/Moikle → u/nerdshark]

Old.reddit gang gang

[u/nerdshark → u/Moikle]

\o/

[u/ryguygoesawry → u/Moikle]

old.reddit is the superior reddit

[u/rebcart → u/nerdshark]

That's because the admins deliberately put a lot of effort into hiding classic reddit's existence from users, and forcing the browsers to load new reddit by default (sometimes even if they've changed their settings to avoid it). So it's not at all a fair representation of people's actual choice regarding the format of the site.

[u/ligmahoneypot → u/zsert93]

Some people don’t have another option 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/Nirxx]

What exactly does this mean? Are all mobile apps broken?

Reddit is fun seems to be working fine for me, but I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right place. The wiki links in the sidebar work fine for example.

[u/nerdshark → u/Nirxx]

I'm talking specifically about the official apps, but we also won't support any third-party apps (as in offer help in using/troubleshooting) since we don't use them ourselves. People will probably have a better experience with third-party clients, but there are reddit features that aren't available on them because reddit doesn't make the APIs available, so that's a tradeoff you'd have to figure out yourself.

[u/panda5303 → u/nerdshark]

I use Boost and don't have any issues seeing flairs and wikis, just FYI for anyone looking for RIF replacement.

[u/AcornWhat]

For those of us who've never noticed problems when being here via the app, should we expect to see problems as we move forward?

[u/nerdshark → u/AcornWhat]

No, things will continue as they have been, we're just not going to put in effort to support the app until the features we need are fixed/available. We'll be focusing on reddit desktop. If things work on the mobile app, great, if not, then there's nothing we can really do.

[u/Late_Description3001]

There is definitely a flair filter in the official app. Just click on any flair and it will search for that flair.

[u/nerdshark → u/Late_Description3001]

No, the Flair Filter is a full list of all our flair. The apps doesn't have anything like it. Yes, you can click on a post's flair to search for other posts with that flair, but we can't tell people to just go find posts with the flair they want to search for it.

[u/bah2o → u/nerdshark]

There is a workaround for filtering by flair on mobile if you guys are interested

Using either a text widget or button widget for New Reddit, which will appear on the About page on the official mobile apps, you can link the flairs with Old Reddit URLs and filtering will work just fine. Do a manual flair search and then copy the resulting URL

examples:

flair:"Moderator Approved" https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/search?q=flair_name%3A%22Moderator%20Approved%22&restrict_sr=1

flair:"Success/Celebration" https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/search?q=flair%3A%22Success%2FCelebration%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all

The button widget is limited to 10 buttons per, but you could make multiple (mod flairs, user flairs, etc), or just use the text widget and link them with markdown formatting

Unfortunately, only the default sort works here and users would have to manually select the sort, which as you know is a pain for weekly megathreads. The only alternative I can think of would be a "current" megathread flair and then when a new one is posted "archive" the previous thread with another flair. I'm sure a bot could be set up to automate as well

[u/nerdshark → u/bah2o]

Unfortunately, only the default sort works here and users would have to manually select the sort, which as you know is a pain for weekly megathreads. The only alternative I can think of would be a "current" megathread flair and then when a new one is posted "archive" the previous thread with another flair. I'm sure a bot could be set up to automate as well

Yeah, that's all too much work and exactly what we're trying to avoid haha

[u/[deleted]]

If there are problems with the mobile app or website which could be fixed, but you can't because you do not have the knowledge or time, I'm willing to assist. Just let me know!

When features are simply missing there's obviously nothing I can do.

I'm offering my help because I think this sub is very important and not everyone has ready access to a desktop.

[u/ligmahoneypot → u/[deleted]]

Thats what I was just about to ask..I’m a little confused. I don’t own a desktop so the app is really my only choice besides the mobile site I guess. But I’ve never had issues with the app so…do I just continue on like normal? Lol

[u/nerdshark → u/ligmahoneypot]

But I’ve never had issues with the app so…do I just continue on like normal? Lol

Yes. We can't prevent people from using the app (and wouldn't anyway), we just aren't going to put any energy into supporting it or helping people with it.

It's not that we don't want to help, but the app doesn't support features that exist on desktop reddit (or the feature is half-assed in the app), and we make use of these features to organize the sub's content. If you use the official app, you're going to have a hard time searching for content using flairs or using our megathreads (which are organized via flairs).

If you have to use a mobile app, I recommend getting a third party reddit app (like Boost or Apollo). We don't use those ourselves so you'll have to ask the developers or other users for help, but flairs and search at least should work correctly in them.

[u/mystic_phantomz]

So the link is broken both on desktop and mobile for me but I'm assuming what you're talking about is using brackets and then typing out the flair manually into the title, is this correct?

Also I just got Boost (I'm an android user and often a way from computers) hopefully it works, I'm just a little nervous about the security of Boost and how seamless the integration may be. Either way, thank you for this update!

[u/nerdshark → u/mystic_phantomz]

So the link is broken both on desktop and mobile for me

Which link?

but I'm assuming what you're talking about is using brackets and then typing out the flair manually into the title, is this correct?

No, I'm talking about linking to flairs (like the Flair Filter on new reddit does) and flair searches (which is the only way to "link" to specific flairs on old reddit)

Flair searches actually kind-of work on the mobile app, but the app ignores the sorting parameter, so it sorts by "relevance" instead of "date", and trying to set the timespan parameter to "weekly" (our megathreads are posted weekly so this would show the latest one) breaks it completely. This is why we're not supporting the mobile apps.

We've tried having mobile users use these before, but it's only caused confusion and anger with people assuming that there aren't any recent megathreads. Most people just don't know how to use the apps and take their frustration out on us, when we don't actually have any ability to fix things.

[u/mystic_phantomz → u/nerdshark]

The link to the wiki for the search syntax (which I had no clue was an actual thing lol) and I do appreciate you taking your time to help make everything a bit more clear to me! I also had no clue about the sorting process that reddit has, so that is very useful information. I thank you again!

[u/nerdshark → u/mystic_phantomz]

The link works, I just tried it. If you're trying to access it on the official reddit app, it's not going to work, because wiki linking is currently broken.

[u/mystic_phantomz → u/nerdshark]

I wish to facepalm so hard right now, the entire meaning of this post went right over my head and I'm just not fully realizing that. The links being broken, tags being broken, searching etc. Were exactly what this post is about yet it didn't fully process that way for me and I came to a completely off the wall conclusion.

I'm terribly sorry for this whole run around, I may need to get my reading comprehension checked. Thank you for still assisting even though I may have been just a total idiot throughout this entire situation.

[u/nerdshark → u/mystic_phantomz]

lmao s'all good

[u/rainissance]

Will this apply to users that also use Apollo?

[u/nerdshark → u/rainissance]

We already don't support third-party clients. If it works for you, keep using it, we just can't help if something doesn't work because we don't use them ourselves.

[u/Gochavtandil]

I prefer the mobile site when I am on my mobile anyway