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One solution is to simply use old reddit until they get their act together. With a plugin it is easy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-

• toyg 6y ago
  > With a plugin it is easy Why would you need a plugin? You just set it in your preferences and it will switch to that as soon as you log on, isn't it...? At least that's what happens to me.
  • skocznymroczny 6y ago
    they switch you back to the "new" design every day or so and you have to switch it again.
    • saati 6y ago
      That's simply not true.
      • weaksauce 6y ago
        It does happen that you can have the setting on and them sending you to new reddit. It’s happened many times for me.
        • saati 6y ago
          It did happen to me, but only a few times and it was transient, it seemed like the frontend can't reach the settings DB intermittently.
          • prophesi 6y ago
            I'm really not sure if I can attribute Hanlon's razor to this. When you log in, that's by definition hitting the database, and should return your settings. Place that in a cookie/localstorage and it should still know your settings offline.
            • saati 6y ago
              There is no single database at the scale reddit operates.
              • prophesi 6y ago
                My bad, *a database. I'm pretty sure I saw in an AMA that Reddit has an Accounts database (maybe split further by sharding) which I'd assume holds your settings as well. But I rescind my point; it could very well be attributed to database infrastructure issues, whether that's hitting a shard with stale data, or splitting account settings to its own DB that it can't access when you log in.
              • weaksauce 6y ago
                at this point they should have those setting at an equilibrium
  • OGWhales 6y ago
    Same for me. Some report this doesn't work but I can't confirm if they are choosing the correct settings as I have never had an issue with that even on multiple accounts.
  • ubercow13 6y ago
    It's useful if you use something like Firefox containers and aren't necessarily logged in when you visit a reddit link
    • toyg 6y ago
      I use the Multi-Account Containers extension [1] and make sure the "always with" option is ticked, so the browser will automatically switch to the right container, where the right cookies live. This said, obviously it doesn't work in Private Windows and it's indeed annoying as hell to use Reddit in that case. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...
• hinkley 6y ago
  How many years have we been saying that now?