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On a cell phone, I can type "best driveway shovel" on my phone, and it will take me to google. Google will have an overlay that tells me searching for the best
by digitalsushi 5y ago
On a cell phone, I can type "best driveway shovel" on my phone, and it will take me to google. Google will have an overlay that tells me searching for the best driveway shovels is better in an app. I close that overlay. The first hit is twitter. The second is reddit. I skip twitter. I get an overlay telling me to install a reddit app, or continue in the website. I click continue in website. There is an overlay telling me to get the reddit app. I close it. I have to click 'read more' to load the rest of the main content. When I scroll to the comments, the first one or two are visible, and then I get a popup telling me reddit is better in an app. If the information about shovels was rated as adult content, I have already seen the content, but then at the comments, I get a popup that tells me to go to the main reddit page, or an option to install the reddit app.
I click back. The third hit on google was also reddit. I repeat the above.
- AutumnCurtain 5y agoOld.reddit.com is the only remotely usable form of the website and seems to have none of the obnoxious popups.
- jagger27 5y agoThe day old.reddit.com goes offline is the day I delete my account. There must be vocal internal holdouts keeping it up.
- NoGravitas 5y agoIf you don't need to comment, libreddit is significantly better, especially on mobile, than old.reddit.com.
- ajvs 5y agoAlso teddit.net, which I find even faster and lightweight without JS.
- emptysongglass 5y agoIf you selfhost Whoogle you can have it rewrite all Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitter results to your own self-hosted, js-free alternative front-ends. I love it!
- guerrilla 5y agoIt gives a cookie popup on mobile telling you to go to the new website to accept the cookie popup. Insanity.
- spicybright 5y agoNot to justify how completely terrible it is, but you can click the accept once and never see it again.
- TomGullen 5y agoThe normal Reddit is completely usable - this is complete hyperbole
- vidarh 5y agoOn desktop, yes. On Mobile, the normal reddit is ridiculously obnoxious unless you tick "desktop site".
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- TillE 5y agoIt's absurdly laborious to have to click "Continue this thread" on any subthread with more than a couple levels of replies, which takes you to a completely new page. A genuinely awful experience compared to the old site, and for what?
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoi.reddit.com is still the best version.
- 90d 5y agoI feel anxious every time I see old.reddit mentioned. If it gains traction, they may want to "improve" it.
- gaius_baltar 5y agoThey are already doing it. There are a lot of seemly intentional bugs, I suspect this is a strategy to force users to migrate to the new one. Galleries and some profile features are not supported, and it is (again intentionally) slowed down on mobile. Reddit jumped the shark already and the current state of affairs is an offense to the memory of Aaron Swartz. Problem is that a new mass migration (as happened in the Digg→Reddit move) is way more difficult due to the inertia and amount of content available. I just hope that, when it finally happens, it would be to a distributed or federated system -- Lemmy.ml seems to be the most promising for now.
- oalae5niMiel7qu 5y agoThe amount of content available isn't a real problem, since Reddit deletes terabytes of that content on a whim. Consider it already deleted and migrate already.
- aordano 5y agoTheir CSS is completely broken and nearly unusable on mobile. They're clearly "improving" it.
- xigoi 5y agoOld Reddit has never been mobile-friendly.
- whoibrar 5y agoYou can also set to Redirect all reddit links to old.reddit
- _-david-_ 5y agoLast time I checked i.reddit.com was pretty usable.
- Wiseacre 5y agoThe fourth hit is Pinterest and the fifth hit is LinkedIn...
- Freskis 5y agoReddit is a psychopath corporation. I cannot think of another description for a company with such a grotesque and obnoxious mobile experience. Pure unadulterated evil.
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- BatteryMountain 5y agoRedReader. You're welcome.
- bell-cot 5y agoSounds like an excellent reason to set your cell phone to default to a less-crappy search engine. (Not to assert that that exists, but there's ample reason to try a few.)