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The original was posted on /r/ApolloApp by /u/gnuoyedonig on 2023-07-06 14:49:07+00:00.

On Reddit Mobile, there’s a big button labeled “Home”, and when you tap it, it might show you the the “Home” feed. But the big button is also how you access “Popular”, “Watch”, “News” and “Latest”, so if you were viewing any of those previously, you might be confused for a bit when something unexpected shows up when you tap “Home”.

A little more… the Reddit Mobile widget does not seem to have an option to pull from the “Home” feed. But there’s a place you can type in free text, and if you do this and don’t pay attention - you are adding r/Home, which is a subreddit about homes, and not the actual Home feed at all.

(How is Home not a selection you can make for the widget? It should be the default!)

Adding to this confusion is… a lot of people adding posts to r/Home think it’s a meta subreddit about Reddit, so it’s not just about homes enough that I kept it this way for a few days before realizing.

I don’t remember having things like this happen in Apollo at all. It was always clear and didn’t confuse a button label with a place you can make four other selections but also select the choice that was on the button label.

I know it’s a small thing, but Apollo got most of them right, Reddit Mobile gets most of them wrong. Christian is a one-person interface team where I imagine Reddit has multiple interface designers, probably getting overruled constantly by management.