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The most disrespectful pattern I encounter regularly on reddit is that it forgets that I want the nicer, more compact interface. There will come a day when they

The most disrespectful pattern I encounter regularly on reddit is that it forgets that I want the nicer, more compact interface. There will come a day when they remove it entirely, clearly, and that will be the end of my reddit usage, more or less.

SkyMarshal 5y ago
How does it keep forgetting? I just change that in settings and it’s never forgotten or reverted for me.
- jostmey 5y ago
  It always forgets for me even when I’m logged in
  - bogwog 5y ago
    By 'compact', do you mean i.reddit.com, or old.reddit.com? I've found that the former does sometimes redirect me to the garbage mobile version when I click on a thread (even while logged in), but the latter persists as long as the setting is enabled in my account.
- ishiz 5y ago
  It keeps forgetting for me too. That is to say, in my mobile browser and desktop browser I opt out of the redesign in favor of the old.reddit.com design, but about once per month it'll just revert back to the redesign. I don't think my cookies are being cleared because I'll stay logged in and I've never found any other setting that flips in the same way, it is only the Redesign opt-out that does this. I don't know how to explain why many people say "this never happens to me" and other people say "this happens frequently." While I'm on the subject, another grey pattern the article missed is the button to opt out of the redesign on mobile. When clicking the hamburger menu there used to be a button at the bottom called (iirc) "Opt out of Redesign." The same option exists today except they've moved it into a Settings submenu and renamed it "Request desktop site" which implies it's a temporary change. Lastly, if you search you'll find threads where people say the web pages are sometimes rendered without any opt out button. I just opened an incognito window to test this and I simply cannot find a button to revert to the old design, even when using my mobile browser's Desktop Mode. So unless a visitor knows about old.reddit.com they are forced to use the new design.
- ra7 5y ago
  This started happening to me only a few weeks ago. I’ve noticed it happens every Monday for me, so presumably some setting is being erased weekly to get users to move to the new design.
peakaboo 5y ago
Sounds more like you have cookies being cleaned.
- randallsquared 5y ago
  As others mentioned happens for them, I'm still logged in, and can get to the settings page to fix it without logging in again.
jffry 5y ago
If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI. Bonus is that this works even if you're not signed in. There's a handy browser extension for automatically redirecting you if you click a link to Reddit's other domains: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect If you'd like to disable custom subreddit styles even if you're not signed in, you can add these custom filters to uBlock Origin: old.reddit.com##^link[ref="applied_subreddit_stylesheet"] old.reddit.com##^#header-img-a old.reddit.com##^.infobar.listingsignupbar
- e3bc54b2 5y ago
  Instead of a full extension, I recommend a simple userscript, serving faithfully for 2 years now: https://pastebin.com/raw/niGCX6AH https://pastebin.com/raw/niGCX6AH Then Mozilla had to go and fuck up extensions on mobile firefox, so now I simply avoid Reddit from phone. On totally unrelated note, I suddenly find myself with extra free time!
  - jffry 5y ago
    The "full extension" I linked is 800 bytes of JS, and thanks to being an extension it can redirect network requests before the page even loads (useful because sometimes Reddit can be quite sluggish to respond, and also because it's good nettiquette to not make spurious requests). Besides which, applying a UserScript requires a much larger "full extension". I'd much rather have a small purpose-built extension which is, via browser-enforced policy, only allowed to run on the specific domains for which it is required. I audited the code, installed it, turned off updates, and it has faithfully served me for a while now. To each their own, I suppose.
    - e3bc54b2 5y ago
      Thanks for proper explanation on why this is better. I stand corrected.
- throwaway64643 5y ago
  > If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI This is an assumption that I'd had until I read feedback from users who joined reddit after introduction of the new reddit design, that old reddit web interface is ugly. Well, I think reddit knows better than us. They have the data!

SkyMarshal 5y ago

How does it keep forgetting? I just change that in settings and it’s never forgotten or reverted for me.

jostmey 5y ago
It always forgets for me even when I’m logged in
- bogwog 5y ago
  By 'compact', do you mean i.reddit.com, or old.reddit.com? I've found that the former does sometimes redirect me to the garbage mobile version when I click on a thread (even while logged in), but the latter persists as long as the setting is enabled in my account.
ishiz 5y ago
It keeps forgetting for me too. That is to say, in my mobile browser and desktop browser I opt out of the redesign in favor of the old.reddit.com design, but about once per month it'll just revert back to the redesign. I don't think my cookies are being cleared because I'll stay logged in and I've never found any other setting that flips in the same way, it is only the Redesign opt-out that does this. I don't know how to explain why many people say "this never happens to me" and other people say "this happens frequently." While I'm on the subject, another grey pattern the article missed is the button to opt out of the redesign on mobile. When clicking the hamburger menu there used to be a button at the bottom called (iirc) "Opt out of Redesign." The same option exists today except they've moved it into a Settings submenu and renamed it "Request desktop site" which implies it's a temporary change. Lastly, if you search you'll find threads where people say the web pages are sometimes rendered without any opt out button. I just opened an incognito window to test this and I simply cannot find a button to revert to the old design, even when using my mobile browser's Desktop Mode. So unless a visitor knows about old.reddit.com they are forced to use the new design.
ra7 5y ago
This started happening to me only a few weeks ago. I’ve noticed it happens every Monday for me, so presumably some setting is being erased weekly to get users to move to the new design.

peakaboo 5y ago

Sounds more like you have cookies being cleaned.

randallsquared 5y ago
As others mentioned happens for them, I'm still logged in, and can get to the settings page to fix it without logging in again.

jffry 5y ago

If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI. Bonus is that this works even if you're not signed in. There's a handy browser extension for automatically redirecting you if you click a link to Reddit's other domains: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect If you'd like to disable custom subreddit styles even if you're not signed in, you can add these custom filters to uBlock Origin: old.reddit.com##^link[ref="applied_subreddit_stylesheet"] old.reddit.com##^#header-img-a old.reddit.com##^.infobar.listingsignupbar

e3bc54b2 5y ago
Instead of a full extension, I recommend a simple userscript, serving faithfully for 2 years now: https://pastebin.com/raw/niGCX6AH https://pastebin.com/raw/niGCX6AH Then Mozilla had to go and fuck up extensions on mobile firefox, so now I simply avoid Reddit from phone. On totally unrelated note, I suddenly find myself with extra free time!
- jffry 5y ago
  The "full extension" I linked is 800 bytes of JS, and thanks to being an extension it can redirect network requests before the page even loads (useful because sometimes Reddit can be quite sluggish to respond, and also because it's good nettiquette to not make spurious requests). Besides which, applying a UserScript requires a much larger "full extension". I'd much rather have a small purpose-built extension which is, via browser-enforced policy, only allowed to run on the specific domains for which it is required. I audited the code, installed it, turned off updates, and it has faithfully served me for a while now. To each their own, I suppose.
  - e3bc54b2 5y ago
    Thanks for proper explanation on why this is better. I stand corrected.
throwaway64643 5y ago
> If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI This is an assumption that I'd had until I read feedback from users who joined reddit after introduction of the new reddit design, that old reddit web interface is ugly. Well, I think reddit knows better than us. They have the data!