Reddit gets its app to 50 million Play Store downloads, mostly by making the mobile web experience miserable

The third-party Reddit clients are better, by the way

Anyone who's tried to browse Reddit on their phone's web browser will be familiar with the constant popups prompting users to download the mobile app instead. Well, it looks like making their mobile site virtually unusable has paid off for the site, as its official Android app has just passed 50 million downloads on the Play Store.

Reddit only debuted its official app in 2016, so the 50-million milestone in that timespan is pretty impressive.

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Reddit gets its app to 50 million Play Store downloads, mostly by making the mobile web experience miserable was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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