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Try using some old software. Like windows 7 or vim or emacs , or PHP or old reddit. Due to their age , they 've accumulated a lot of fixes to their bugs. They m

Try using some old software. Like windows 7 or vim or emacs , or PHP or old reddit. Due to their age , they 've accumulated a lot of fixes to their bugs. They may look weird and old , but they waste less of my time.

sabujp 6y ago
old.reddit.com is the best, is there a plugin/extension or some script to force chrome to always redirect to old.reddit.com for all reddit urls? edit: found https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiegeliagebegjdhebejdlknciafen?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege... and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiegeliagebegjdhebejdlknciafen?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege... this one seems to be pretty popular (requestly) : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect-url-mo/mdnleldcmiljblolnjhpnblkcekpdkpa https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect... anyone have better solutions?
- swills 6y ago
  Yes, "Old Reddit Redirect": https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
- delecti 6y ago
  If you're logged in, you can just have your account stay on the old design. preferences > beta options > uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"
vkou 6y ago
They waste less of your time, because they are either doing different things from what their new versions do, or you have more experience working around their problems. [1] I'm glad someone mentioned reddit in this subthread. I exclusively use old reddit, because I use reddit to read, and comment on text forums. The new reddit design is hot garbage for this usecase. But what it's not hot garbage for is scrolling through image-heavy/meme-heavy subreddits. It's much better than old reddit for that use case. New reddit doesn't suck for my use case because the reddit developers hate their users. New reddit sucks for my use case because reddit wants to be a 'scroll through memes' feed, not a message board. Complaining about it is like complaining that Mercedes-Benz doesn't really want to make airplanes anymore. Oh, and old reddit wasn't even good for my use case! I'd much rather use a real forum, then reddit's opinionated-UX disaster, but since everyone I want to talk to is on reddit (because they spend most of their time scrolling through memes), I have to suffer through it. [1] The parts of Windows that got overhauled visibly-to-the-user (mostly windows explorer + pre-installed programs) were always crap. The first thing I do on a new Windows installation is to install an orthodox file manager, because the OS is unusable for me without it. The overhauls under the hood were largely invisible. The new additions, like the search omnibar are, for the most part, decent.
- cblconfederate 6y ago
  i didnt say devs hate users, i said they don't care. > because reddit wants to be It used to be that devs would add features to please users and apps didn't have an agenda about what they "wanted to be". And what prevented reddit from introducing a "meme feed mode" for subreddits that are full of memes? People seem to have forgotten that they can make incremental changes, not every update needs to be a full rewrite. > new additions, like the search omnibar are, See this isnt even new, windows 7 had a much more compact start menu without ads and with a search bar. They didn't add to that, or improve or that, they literally made it terrible. And my Photos app keeps crashing all the time, it's ridiculous. It didnt use to crash in win7. Another is the old Skype, the new one is still missing features that worked in the old one. But most of all, what's missing is snappiness, not because my computer is slow, but because the new apps use frameworks in which it's impossible to have low latency.

sabujp 6y ago

old.reddit.com is the best, is there a plugin/extension or some script to force chrome to always redirect to old.reddit.com for all reddit urls? edit: found https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiegeliagebegjdhebejdlknciafen?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege... and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiegeliagebegjdhebejdlknciafen?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege... this one seems to be pretty popular (requestly) : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect-url-mo/mdnleldcmiljblolnjhpnblkcekpdkpa https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect... anyone have better solutions?

swills 6y ago
Yes, "Old Reddit Redirect": https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
delecti 6y ago
If you're logged in, you can just have your account stay on the old design. preferences > beta options > uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"

vkou 6y ago

They waste less of your time, because they are either doing different things from what their new versions do, or you have more experience working around their problems. [1] I'm glad someone mentioned reddit in this subthread. I exclusively use old reddit, because I use reddit to read, and comment on text forums. The new reddit design is hot garbage for this usecase. But what it's not hot garbage for is scrolling through image-heavy/meme-heavy subreddits. It's much better than old reddit for that use case. New reddit doesn't suck for my use case because the reddit developers hate their users. New reddit sucks for my use case because reddit wants to be a 'scroll through memes' feed, not a message board. Complaining about it is like complaining that Mercedes-Benz doesn't really want to make airplanes anymore. Oh, and old reddit wasn't even good for my use case! I'd much rather use a real forum, then reddit's opinionated-UX disaster, but since everyone I want to talk to is on reddit (because they spend most of their time scrolling through memes), I have to suffer through it. [1] The parts of Windows that got overhauled visibly-to-the-user (mostly windows explorer + pre-installed programs) were always crap. The first thing I do on a new Windows installation is to install an orthodox file manager, because the OS is unusable for me without it. The overhauls under the hood were largely invisible. The new additions, like the search omnibar are, for the most part, decent.

cblconfederate 6y ago
i didnt say devs hate users, i said they don't care. > because reddit wants to be It used to be that devs would add features to please users and apps didn't have an agenda about what they "wanted to be". And what prevented reddit from introducing a "meme feed mode" for subreddits that are full of memes? People seem to have forgotten that they can make incremental changes, not every update needs to be a full rewrite. > new additions, like the search omnibar are, See this isnt even new, windows 7 had a much more compact start menu without ads and with a search bar. They didn't add to that, or improve or that, they literally made it terrible. And my Photos app keeps crashing all the time, it's ridiculous. It didnt use to crash in win7. Another is the old Skype, the new one is still missing features that worked in the old one. But most of all, what's missing is snappiness, not because my computer is slow, but because the new apps use frameworks in which it's impossible to have low latency.