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My solution for good reddit browsing: * Use the Reddit Enhancement Suite browser extension, and customize to your liking. * Set it to permanent old.reddit.com

My solution for good reddit browsing: * Use the Reddit Enhancement Suite browser extension, and customize to your liking. * Set it to permanent old.reddit.com mode, so all reddit links immediately go there. * Only browse reddit on mobile using one of several third-party apps, like Relay (my preference), Boost, or Apollo. * Extensively tailor your subreddit selection to weed out the garbage. Most if not all of the default subreddits are terrible, but anything devoted to a niche interest is likely to be a welcoming and respectful community. I don't have avatars, autoplay videos, or inline "promoted" threads. I see 10 levels of nested comments with 1000 comments loaded by default. Additional levels of nesting are tap to open. I have keyboard navigation on desktop and swipe navigation (from link to comments back to home page) on mobile. Pretty much all of the complaints that folks have in here are solved problems.

throwaway64643 5y ago
I think this is the way Reddit supposes their power users to have the old reddit experience. If they didn't care about power users, they'd completely decimate old.reddit.com months after deployment of the new design, just shove it all 'em mouth. They always leave ways for power users to have the most authentic reddit experience. Recently, Reddit has changed their algorithm to filter out contents of pornographic subreddits from the front page r/all. They didn't touch the communities. But they made it much harder for average users and new users to accidentally discover porn contents on Reddit. They didn't want to do another 'tumblr'. But this, consequently, has impact on promotion and expansion of those subreddits. This is a smart move (that other platforms have the same trouble should learn). Change hurts, but it is barely felt.
ozcanberkciftci 5y ago
redreader is awesome as an android reddit client
- ehsankia 5y ago
  rif and baconreader too.
pixelpoet 5y ago
They've recently (1-2 weeks) changed it so that you can't reject non-essential cookies from the new (non-old) reddit. So you go there, you say no I don't want your damn tracking crap, and then 2 days later you mysteriously get the prompt again; every 2 days. Been on reddit for over 11 years, but I'm reaching the end of my patience for this shit too.

throwaway64643 5y ago

I think this is the way Reddit supposes their power users to have the old reddit experience. If they didn't care about power users, they'd completely decimate old.reddit.com months after deployment of the new design, just shove it all 'em mouth. They always leave ways for power users to have the most authentic reddit experience. Recently, Reddit has changed their algorithm to filter out contents of pornographic subreddits from the front page r/all. They didn't touch the communities. But they made it much harder for average users and new users to accidentally discover porn contents on Reddit. They didn't want to do another 'tumblr'. But this, consequently, has impact on promotion and expansion of those subreddits. This is a smart move (that other platforms have the same trouble should learn). Change hurts, but it is barely felt.

ozcanberkciftci 5y ago

redreader is awesome as an android reddit client

ehsankia 5y ago
rif and baconreader too.

pixelpoet 5y ago

They've recently (1-2 weeks) changed it so that you can't reject non-essential cookies from the new (non-old) reddit. So you go there, you say no I don't want your damn tracking crap, and then 2 days later you mysteriously get the prompt again; every 2 days. Been on reddit for over 11 years, but I'm reaching the end of my patience for this shit too.