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Gone to reddit on mobile lately? Because its terrible. Full screen popovers. At a minimum you have to request a desktop page for anything usable. Its barely bet

Gone to reddit on mobile lately? Because its terrible. Full screen popovers. At a minimum you have to request a desktop page for anything usable. Its barely better than a paywall.

MBCook 9y ago
I don't use any apps, I only use the website. And I almost always use it on my phone. And I ALWAYS use the desktop version because the mobile version is a disaster. I've never tried to use it so I wasn't aware of the fullscreen popovers. I just hate the incredibly low information density. Why should I only see two or three things on the screen at once when I can see 20? And the 20 still looks better. I really don't understand the point of Reddit's mobile site.
- pstuart 9y ago
  > I really don't understand the point of Reddit's mobile site. So they can show more ads.
- click170 9y ago
  To add to that, the desktop site works* with javascript disabled, is faster that way, and has much fewer ads, but the mobile site doesn't even load under that condition. Edit: * - works in a read-only sense, you have to turn JS on to comment or expand comments.
- Spoom 9y ago
  i.reddit.com still works and has a high information density, although its JavaScript appears to be broken for expanding comment threads currently.
- MoronInAHurry 9y ago
  Reddit's in the process of rewriting their desktop site to use the same stack as their mobile version. So you probably won't be able to avoid it for much longer.
  - jhasse 9y ago
    Please no :( Do you have any more info on this?
    - MoronInAHurry 9y ago
      This post is from last week, follow the other links at the top to see some previous ones: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_redesign_styling_alpha https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_rede... You can see the beginnings of it on the new profile pages, for example https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing
- oneweekwonder 9y ago
  For mobile I use https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/. I like the old iphone feel, seems clean, fast, and easy to use. The only thing I can complain about it that the gear option opens the menu at the bottom of a comment.
unkown-unknowns 9y ago
I agree. Also the mobile web version is lacking a lot of things with regards to making use of the Reddit API. For example if on mobile you go to a subreddit to make a post it will present you with the self post and the link post option regardless of the settings of the subreddit. So you write a long post and post it, only to get told sorry this subreddit doesn't allow self posts, or you post a link and you spend a lot of time typing in the title only to get told sorry no links allowed. WTF?? It's beyond ridiculous that they show the option of making a post in a subreddit where it does not apply. It doesn't stop there. The whole thing is very disappointing :(
- unkown-unknowns 9y ago
  Another couple of grievances: - On desktop you get useful error messages like for example "you're doing that too much, try again in x minutes". On the mobile web version it's just a generic message that is of absolutely zero help. - You get to see the score of your posts (good) on your profile but to see the score of your comments you have to click on an individual comment. Bad!
marssaxman 9y ago
Their new mobile site is terrible but the old one still works fine - just go to http://i.reddit.com/ http://i.reddit.com/ instead.

Gone to reddit on mobile lately? Because its terrible. Full screen popovers. At a minimum you have to request a desktop page for anything usable. Its barely better than a paywall.

MBCook 9y ago

I don't use any apps, I only use the website. And I almost always use it on my phone. And I ALWAYS use the desktop version because the mobile version is a disaster. I've never tried to use it so I wasn't aware of the fullscreen popovers. I just hate the incredibly low information density. Why should I only see two or three things on the screen at once when I can see 20? And the 20 still looks better. I really don't understand the point of Reddit's mobile site.

pstuart 9y ago
> I really don't understand the point of Reddit's mobile site. So they can show more ads.
click170 9y ago
To add to that, the desktop site works* with javascript disabled, is faster that way, and has much fewer ads, but the mobile site doesn't even load under that condition. Edit: * - works in a read-only sense, you have to turn JS on to comment or expand comments.
Spoom 9y ago
i.reddit.com still works and has a high information density, although its JavaScript appears to be broken for expanding comment threads currently.
MoronInAHurry 9y ago
Reddit's in the process of rewriting their desktop site to use the same stack as their mobile version. So you probably won't be able to avoid it for much longer.
- jhasse 9y ago
  Please no :( Do you have any more info on this?
  - MoronInAHurry 9y ago
    This post is from last week, follow the other links at the top to see some previous ones: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_redesign_styling_alpha https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_rede... You can see the beginnings of it on the new profile pages, for example https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing
oneweekwonder 9y ago
For mobile I use https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/. I like the old iphone feel, seems clean, fast, and easy to use. The only thing I can complain about it that the gear option opens the menu at the bottom of a comment.

unkown-unknowns 9y ago

I agree. Also the mobile web version is lacking a lot of things with regards to making use of the Reddit API. For example if on mobile you go to a subreddit to make a post it will present you with the self post and the link post option regardless of the settings of the subreddit. So you write a long post and post it, only to get told sorry this subreddit doesn't allow self posts, or you post a link and you spend a lot of time typing in the title only to get told sorry no links allowed. WTF?? It's beyond ridiculous that they show the option of making a post in a subreddit where it does not apply. It doesn't stop there. The whole thing is very disappointing :(

unkown-unknowns 9y ago
Another couple of grievances: - On desktop you get useful error messages like for example "you're doing that too much, try again in x minutes". On the mobile web version it's just a generic message that is of absolutely zero help. - You get to see the score of your posts (good) on your profile but to see the score of your comments you have to click on an individual comment. Bad!

marssaxman 9y ago

Their new mobile site is terrible but the old one still works fine - just go to http://i.reddit.com/ http://i.reddit.com/ instead.