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Yeah. Reddit is especially really intrusive and annoying. I feel like they just don't want people to use their site anymore. Whenever I open new Reddit, my memo
by damnencryption 6y ago
Yeah. Reddit is especially really intrusive and annoying. I feel like they just don't want people to use their site anymore. Whenever I open new Reddit, my memory and CPU usage goes up so badly.
- MattGaiser 6y agoold.reddit.com.
- lasagnaphil 6y agoUse a browser plugin like this to always use the old site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
- Fnoord 6y agoDoesn't work on Firefox Android. I never go to Reddit by typing URL; I go to Reddit because I follow a link to it.
- mcjiggerlog 6y agoCreator of the extension here. It actually does work on Android, it's just not in the (very short) list of allowed extensions yet. There is a workaround to add custom addons, though: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/42 https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issu...
- ffpip 6y agoThanks for making this. It's useful every time I click a new reddit link.
- ripdog 6y agoThere's a rich ecosystem of incredible third party reddit apps on android, as an alternative. Reddit is really unpleasant to use on the mobile web, even without the dark patterns.
- smolder 6y agoThe plug-in redirects to old Reddit automatically when following links, so if it worked for you that would not be an issue.
- accurateappL 6y agoAnd if you're signed in you can opt out of the new site (Preferences > Opt out of the redesign)
- snomad 6y agoUniqueness of browser plugins creates unique signature specific to user.
- diarrhea 6y agoThis together with RES and Shine makes it really pleasant actually. In fact, I think you don't need to visit old.reddit.com for RES/Shine to work. CPU/MEM usage is off the charts though (has gotten much better).
- lucb1e 6y agoSame here, it's painfully slow and I click their search results only when I don't know where else to look. Given reddit's sheer size and popularity in quite a few countries, I wonder how many MWh and CO2e the new version uses and causes.
- andrepd 6y agoAlso battery degradation.
- BatteryMountain 6y agoReddit website unusable on mobile, it cuts all images in half for me (Nokia 3.1 and Samsung A51), and it's just laggy. I use RedReader from F-Droid instead.
- bonoboTP 6y agoYes, it also loads forever, hides half the comments, constant pop-ups telling you to use the app instead, cannot read some (non-quarantined) subs without logging in, no NSFW without logging in, back button is broken, frequent error in loading pages... On the desktop it still usable with old.reddit.com. But honestly it's probably for the best, less time wasted.
- ryandrake 6y agoThey can't even manage to get their video player to work. Even your local news web sites, which ten years after YouTube still couldn't manage to consistently get a video to play in the browser, have figured it out by now. But Reddit? Nope. Requires me to hit the play button 3-4 times in order to start the video, stops randomly in the middle of the video, and "re-play" never works. I mean, we're almost in 2021! Developers, if you can't figure it out, just give up and embed YouTube.
- goatsi 6y agoMy favourite bit is when it starts replaying (with full volume) after I've scrolled halfway down into the comments.