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and reddit has gotten much less useful with all their push for login and using their app...

Spivak 6y ago
This in no way absolves their god awful mobile experience but if you're logged into Reddit with the new UI turned off or use the Old Reddit Redirect add-on it's basically as if nothing on Reddit changed since 2011.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  The new UI is great! It keeps the programmers occupied so they stop messing with the old UI that I actually want to use.
  - typon 6y ago
    Till one day they pull the old UI and theres nothing you can do about it
    - Spivak 6y ago
      I mean there's not nothing you can do. You can still grab the source to old Reddit and it's just a matter of gluing the old UI to the new API like all the 3rd party clients do. Not trivial by any means but there's a lot of prior art floating around you could pull from. Sure they could pull API access and be more hostile to scrapers but that's the current escape hatch for people who would have left because of the redesign.
    - ookware 6y ago
      The day they turn off old reddit and stop third party API access is the day I can finally detox myself from reddit.
    - breakingcups 6y ago
      I'm even more worried they'll shut off the API at some point and start going hostile to third-party clients.
    - mjrpes 6y ago
      That might begin the next major exodus. Digg -> Reddit -> ???
  - unionpivo 6y ago
    :) The old wife and a mistress approach
  - hntrader 6y ago
    This was one of the few UI changes that I never got accustomed to over time. It's still just as bad, irritating and ugly as the first day I used it.
- astrange 6y ago
  Their mobile website works fine for me, or at least the annoyances are a blessing because I spend less time on it. The one thing I do notice is if you follow a link out of reddit then go back, it shows an error instead of the thread and you have to reload, which loses your place.
- pkamb 6y ago
  Google still loads the AMP page instead, which looks like New Reddit.
throwaway743 6y ago
That, and don't get me started on their search. Love getting 0 results on initial submit, then reloading the page with the results magically appearing... Also love being redirected in order to continue reading certain threads
dschuessler 6y ago
Use the Teddit frontend (https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/) and the Redirector extension (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) to redirect all Reddit links to Teddit and view the content there. You won't be bothered by pushes for login again.
- yewenjie 6y ago
  there is also https://libredd.it https://libredd.it
datavirtue 6y ago
Yeah. I had decent karma or whatever on a ten year old account and got banned for not having an email address. Shrug. Pretty much killed my reddit habit.

This in no way absolves their god awful mobile experience but if you're logged into Reddit with the new UI turned off or use the Old Reddit Redirect add-on it's basically as if nothing on Reddit changed since 2011.

londons_explore 6y ago
The new UI is great! It keeps the programmers occupied so they stop messing with the old UI that I actually want to use.
- typon 6y ago
  Till one day they pull the old UI and theres nothing you can do about it
  - Spivak 6y ago
    I mean there's not nothing you can do. You can still grab the source to old Reddit and it's just a matter of gluing the old UI to the new API like all the 3rd party clients do. Not trivial by any means but there's a lot of prior art floating around you could pull from. Sure they could pull API access and be more hostile to scrapers but that's the current escape hatch for people who would have left because of the redesign.
  - ookware 6y ago
    The day they turn off old reddit and stop third party API access is the day I can finally detox myself from reddit.
  - breakingcups 6y ago
    I'm even more worried they'll shut off the API at some point and start going hostile to third-party clients.
  - mjrpes 6y ago
    That might begin the next major exodus. Digg -> Reddit -> ???
- unionpivo 6y ago
  :) The old wife and a mistress approach
- hntrader 6y ago
  This was one of the few UI changes that I never got accustomed to over time. It's still just as bad, irritating and ugly as the first day I used it.
astrange 6y ago
Their mobile website works fine for me, or at least the annoyances are a blessing because I spend less time on it. The one thing I do notice is if you follow a link out of reddit then go back, it shows an error instead of the thread and you have to reload, which loses your place.
pkamb 6y ago
Google still loads the AMP page instead, which looks like New Reddit.

throwaway743 6y ago

That, and don't get me started on their search. Love getting 0 results on initial submit, then reloading the page with the results magically appearing... Also love being redirected in order to continue reading certain threads

dschuessler 6y ago

Use the Teddit frontend (https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/) and the Redirector extension (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) to redirect all Reddit links to Teddit and view the content there. You won't be bothered by pushes for login again.

yewenjie 6y ago
there is also https://libredd.it https://libredd.it

datavirtue 6y ago

Yeah. I had decent karma or whatever on a ten year old account and got banned for not having an email address. Shrug. Pretty much killed my reddit habit.