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Try going to a reddit page from google nowadays... it shows, like, one comment and then “click to read more”. Oops, you were on the amp page, so now it’s loaded
by silveroriole 7y ago
Try going to a reddit page from google nowadays... it shows, like, one comment and then “click to read more”. Oops, you were on the amp page, so now it’s loaded the exact same page but non-amp. Click to read more again. Now the long comments are still not shown fully so you have to click each one to read the whole comment. Now the thread replies are still collapsed so click those to read the replies. This is absolutely infuriating if you’re in a place with patchy internet. With HN I can load a comment page and read it top to bottom for ten minutes, with reddit I’m clicking non-stop just to see text on a text-based website!
- rixed 7y agoFirst rule of reading reddit: edit the url and replace the leading "www" with "old".
- Plyphon_ 7y agoWhat a fantastic user experience!
- nosianu 7y agoI keep an account and remain logged in for the single purpose of using the "Preferences" setting that I always want the old version. So I can now just use the regular www-URLs and still get the old interface. EDIT: Checking my preferences, there is an option on the bottom that actually is disabled and says the opposite: "Use new Reddit as my default experience". So I guess that's on by default and you have to disable it.
- account42 7y agoI have that set too but still use https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redir... to make sure I don't accidentally share a link to that awful new interface.