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It constantly amazes me how bad Reddit's interface is, videos either don't play or randomly start playing despite them not being in the viewport. They run rando
by tfsh 5y ago
It constantly amazes me how bad Reddit's interface is, videos either don't play or randomly start playing despite them not being in the viewport. They run random A|B experiments which add unnecessary components such as avatars next to peoples comments. Random acts of monetization are shoved down my throat at every turn. I honestly think the Reddit team are on a purpose built mission to design the most user hostile forum.
I've tried browsing Reddit in incognito on my phone before and it wouldn't let me without installing their app, thankfully old.reddit.com exists. From clicking on a search result to viewing an image post took ~8 clicks. The flow was analogous to:
-> Click on search result
-> ending on an AMP page and clicking the bottom sheet exit button to view the post in the browser rather than the app
-> clicking on the title to view the actual post in the non AMP format
-> ending up on the actual post and being told I need to view it in the app (which completely removes the point of using incognito)
-> changing the URL to old.reddit.com which is tedious with a phone keyboard
-> finally load the page and click on the image
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoSeconded. The old.reddit.com UI is still pretty bad on mobile, but it's the only remotely usable one. The default mobile site goes out of its way to make it difficult to read the thread, while also confusingly merging other threads into the page.
- afterburner 5y agoTry i.reddit.com
- thanatos519 5y agoi.reddit.com FTW! I would give you gold for this comment if this was reddit.
- ehsankia 5y agoon mobile just use a custom app, all the web interfaces are utter shit, and the google links take you to AMP all the time. I just use rif, has worked flawlessly for a decade and has all the features, even mod stuff.
- SilasX 5y agoYes (about old version on mobile). It has annoyances like how, on iOS, double-tap-to-zoom only occasionally works. And as for videos, if you scroll down, it will hog precious real estate at the top to keep showing the video with only a tiny X at the corner that's hard to click (because iOS will misinterpret it as asking to show the URL bar and options). And I really don't think any UX designer has even looked at any of the mobile versions in landscape mode (haven't checked if the app even allows it). I suspect they haven't looked at the torrent of modals assaulting you either. Oh and I was opted out of the old design like three times yesterday. Edit: For an example of something even worse, Quora (on iOS safari) has been stuck on a permanent "something went wrong" for months. I have to view it on desktop. Edit2: Sorry, one more update. Even on the old design, when you try to report a comment, it's somehow inserted a new style for picking the reason for reporting ... which breaks my extention's (Tridacty's) ability to pick it up as a clickable link from the keyboard. Why??? You just had to leave it alone!
- kzrdude 5y agoBoth old. and i.reddit.com are slowly being left behind by new features and such things. It breaks conversation when new reddit can use one syntax for code blocks and old reddit can't see it like it's supposed to look.
- tazjin 5y agoold. now has a new EU cookie banner which, to accept or configure cookies, takes you to the new version. I blocked the banner in my adblocker. If they're turning off the old reddit anytime soon I'll probably just leave.
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoThere are unofficial front-ends available, such as Teddit: • https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/ • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
- peanut_worm 5y agoYou cannot login with teddit as far as I know
- ehsankia 5y ago> I blocked the banner in my adblocker. Hah I did the exact same thing. Their stupid redirect didn't even work.
- fiestaman 5y agoTry out js4.red as an alternative.
- whywhywhywhy 5y agoThe default mobile site feels like it's so over-engineered to the point of being broken, even typing a comment on iOS the keyboard makes a weird echo key sound as if multiple keypress events are firing with each press or it's somehow running so much code with each press its making the whole OS choke. Utterly bizarre.
- 0x00000000 5y agoIf it is an Imgur link there are additional steps. It shows you a microscopic image that is compressed to hell and refuses to respect “show desktop site”. The only way to see the full size image is to manually edit the url to “i.imgur.com/<id>.<extension>” where <extension> is one of jpg, jpeg, or webp but you have to guess. It’s astounding just how hostile the entire experience is.
- Spivak 5y agoThe best solution I’ve found is buying Apollo and Opener so then the flow is. Long press link, tap share, tap open in Apollo.
- digianarchist 5y agoTheir rich comment editor appears broken. Pasting once works but pasting twice completely breaks the text area.