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Twitter is barely usable with JS disabled. Any time you follow a link to it you'll get a worthless interstitial "would you like to proceed to legacy twitter??"

Twitter is barely usable with JS disabled. Any time you follow a link to it you'll get a worthless interstitial "would you like to proceed to legacy twitter??" with only one button: "Yes." As of recently, if you have cookies disabled for their domain as well you'll end up in a redirect loop and never be able to see the 140 characters of text. *As for reddit though, if you log in with an account you can set it to always use old reddit in preferences.

dredmorbius 7y ago
No, you can set "Use new Reddit as my default experience ". At the bottom of the page, "beta options". https://old.reddit.com/prefs/ https://old.reddit.com/prefs/ There is no "always use old reddit"
- boring_twenties 7y ago
  Hmm, it always shows me old reddit when I log in. I just tried logging out, got new reddit, then old reddit again as soon as I logged back in. Are you saying you have that checkbox you pointed out unchecked, and still get new reddit by default?
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    I navigate directly to old Reddit. However if links within Reddit (in comments, sidebars, wikis) specify the full domain, I end up at new reddit. I basically never ever want to be there. I've specifically not enabled JS for 'www.reddit.com' so that the site won't load, but I still have to fix URLs manually when directed there. What I'd like is for any 'www.reddit.com' I encounter on the site to be rewritten to 'old.reddit.com'.
    - ttctciyf 7y ago
      I log in to www.reddit.com, and have the "use new reddit" box unchecked. Anytime I click a link to reddit (including np.reddit links) it honours my preference of avoiding new reddit (checked just now by a quick reddit search on site:reddit.com) So maybe this is a misfeature on old.reddit.com, or you don't have the box unchecked?
      - swift532 7y ago
        I think they meant if someone posts a link that's not an np.reddit link, but a full link like `https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/` https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/`
      - dredmorbius 7y ago
        As an example: visiting the Ask Historian's wiki in Old, all the links redirect to New. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/index https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/index
        ttctciyf 7y ago
        Ok, well if I visit that url and click links to reddit posts, like [1] under April Fools, they go to www.reddit.com but my preference setting of not seeing new reddit is honoured there. (i.e. looks the same as if I did s/www/old/ on the url.) Not sure if you're saying that setting's not working for you or you're just annoyed that it doesn't explicitly link to https://old.reddit.com../blah/. https://old.reddit.com../blah/.. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b7rums/why_did_so_many_nazis_at_the_nuremberg_have/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b7rums/why_d...
- mminer237 7y ago
  If you uncheck that box though, you will always be taken to old Reddit unless you specifically go to new.reddit.com
  - noirscape 7y ago
    It's _meant_ to do that, but from personal experience (and one that from what I've seen others share), keeping old Reddit enabled is extremely finnicky (apparently it's an issue with the way their server handles the old/new check) and it'll randomly switch to new Reddit. I personally wound up using an extension[1] to keep old Reddit active, which so far has taken care of the weird behavior. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redir...
userbinator 7y ago
twitter.com -> m.twitter.com appears to be the mobile, non-JS version. (I don't use it to tweet, but I get linked to it to read some things sometimes, and that functionality works fine.)
- boring_twenties 7y ago
  Hm, so maybe all I need is an extension to rewrite twitter links to the mobile version. Will look into, thanks!
Springtime 7y ago
The current workaround to those issues for Twitter (while it still lasts) is to set the user agent to Opera 12. To handle that for Vivaldi/Chromium I use a nice little user agent extension [1] that allows auto UA switching based on domain. [1] https://github.com/eminentspoon/chrome-extension-useragent https://github.com/eminentspoon/chrome-extension-useragent
- iforgotpassword 7y ago
  Might work with internet explorer too. On ie11 mobile I always instantly get the static twitter page. Loads way faster than the modern Js version on my note 7 which has four times the ram and twice as many CPU cores. It's both hilarious and sad.

dredmorbius 7y ago

No, you can set "Use new Reddit as my default experience ". At the bottom of the page, "beta options". https://old.reddit.com/prefs/ https://old.reddit.com/prefs/ There is no "always use old reddit"

boring_twenties 7y ago
Hmm, it always shows me old reddit when I log in. I just tried logging out, got new reddit, then old reddit again as soon as I logged back in. Are you saying you have that checkbox you pointed out unchecked, and still get new reddit by default?
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  I navigate directly to old Reddit. However if links within Reddit (in comments, sidebars, wikis) specify the full domain, I end up at new reddit. I basically never ever want to be there. I've specifically not enabled JS for 'www.reddit.com' so that the site won't load, but I still have to fix URLs manually when directed there. What I'd like is for any 'www.reddit.com' I encounter on the site to be rewritten to 'old.reddit.com'.
  - ttctciyf 7y ago
    I log in to www.reddit.com, and have the "use new reddit" box unchecked. Anytime I click a link to reddit (including np.reddit links) it honours my preference of avoiding new reddit (checked just now by a quick reddit search on site:reddit.com) So maybe this is a misfeature on old.reddit.com, or you don't have the box unchecked?
    - swift532 7y ago
      I think they meant if someone posts a link that's not an np.reddit link, but a full link like `https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/` https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/`
    - dredmorbius 7y ago
      As an example: visiting the Ask Historian's wiki in Old, all the links redirect to New. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/index https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/index
      - ttctciyf 7y ago
        Ok, well if I visit that url and click links to reddit posts, like [1] under April Fools, they go to www.reddit.com but my preference setting of not seeing new reddit is honoured there. (i.e. looks the same as if I did s/www/old/ on the url.) Not sure if you're saying that setting's not working for you or you're just annoyed that it doesn't explicitly link to https://old.reddit.com../blah/. https://old.reddit.com../blah/.. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b7rums/why_did_so_many_nazis_at_the_nuremberg_have/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b7rums/why_d...
mminer237 7y ago
If you uncheck that box though, you will always be taken to old Reddit unless you specifically go to new.reddit.com
- noirscape 7y ago
  It's _meant_ to do that, but from personal experience (and one that from what I've seen others share), keeping old Reddit enabled is extremely finnicky (apparently it's an issue with the way their server handles the old/new check) and it'll randomly switch to new Reddit. I personally wound up using an extension[1] to keep old Reddit active, which so far has taken care of the weird behavior. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redir...

userbinator 7y ago

twitter.com -> m.twitter.com appears to be the mobile, non-JS version. (I don't use it to tweet, but I get linked to it to read some things sometimes, and that functionality works fine.)

boring_twenties 7y ago
Hm, so maybe all I need is an extension to rewrite twitter links to the mobile version. Will look into, thanks!

Springtime 7y ago

The current workaround to those issues for Twitter (while it still lasts) is to set the user agent to Opera 12. To handle that for Vivaldi/Chromium I use a nice little user agent extension [1] that allows auto UA switching based on domain. [1] https://github.com/eminentspoon/chrome-extension-useragent https://github.com/eminentspoon/chrome-extension-useragent

iforgotpassword 7y ago
Might work with internet explorer too. On ie11 mobile I always instantly get the static twitter page. Loads way faster than the modern Js version on my note 7 which has four times the ram and twice as many CPU cores. It's both hilarious and sad.