NalivaiJul 6, 2023
What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can’t use them because of some people’s laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it’s impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.
Show threadCrabLangEnjoyerJul 6, 2023

This really has nothing to do with being lazy, a lot of modern software just straight up isn’t supported anymore on such old systems. Making it compatible and testing it on those old platforms makes no business sense at all. Far too expensive with little to no benefit overall.

If anyone is to blame here it’s the phone manufacturers that don’t provide updates to those devices.

Show threadRGB3x3
Exactly. Rag on Reddit all you want, but a company maintaining compatibility with an almost 10 year old OS version is a bit much.
Jul 6, 2023 at 11:03amWeb
Show threadSirShanovaJul 6, 2023
Windows 8.1 Release: October 17, 2013 Windows 8 EoL: January 10, 2023
Show threadRGB3x3Jul 6, 2023

Exactly, they EOL it after 10 years. And that’s MICROSOFT. Reddit is smaller by many orders of magnitude.

If anything, backward compatibility is Google’s fault.

Show threadTwoGemsJul 6, 2023
Wait, why? Don’t the Reddit third party apps work on nearly any device? If so, I think that was their point. That the Reddit app is a piece of shit.