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Old.reddit.com is the only remotely usable form of the website and seems to have none of the obnoxious popups.

jagger27 5y ago
The day old.reddit.com goes offline is the day I delete my account. There must be vocal internal holdouts keeping it up.
NoGravitas 5y ago
If you don't need to comment, libreddit is significantly better, especially on mobile, than old.reddit.com.
- ajvs 5y ago
  Also teddit.net, which I find even faster and lightweight without JS.
  - emptysongglass 5y ago
    If 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 ago
It gives a cookie popup on mobile telling you to go to the new website to accept the cookie popup. Insanity.
- spicybright 5y ago
  Not to justify how completely terrible it is, but you can click the accept once and never see it again.
TomGullen 5y ago
The normal Reddit is completely usable - this is complete hyperbole
- vidarh 5y ago
  On desktop, yes. On Mobile, the normal reddit is ridiculously obnoxious unless you tick "desktop site".
- deleted 5y ago
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- TillE 5y ago
  It'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 ago
i.reddit.com is still the best version.
90d 5y ago
I feel anxious every time I see old.reddit mentioned. If it gains traction, they may want to "improve" it.
- gaius_baltar 5y ago
  They 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 ago
    The 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 ago
  Their CSS is completely broken and nearly unusable on mobile. They're clearly "improving" it.
  - xigoi 5y ago
    Old Reddit has never been mobile-friendly.
whoibrar 5y ago
You can also set to Redirect all reddit links to old.reddit
_-david-_ 5y ago
Last time I checked i.reddit.com was pretty usable.

The day old.reddit.com goes offline is the day I delete my account. There must be vocal internal holdouts keeping it up.

NoGravitas 5y ago

If you don't need to comment, libreddit is significantly better, especially on mobile, than old.reddit.com.

ajvs 5y ago
Also teddit.net, which I find even faster and lightweight without JS.
- emptysongglass 5y ago
  If 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 ago

It gives a cookie popup on mobile telling you to go to the new website to accept the cookie popup. Insanity.

spicybright 5y ago
Not to justify how completely terrible it is, but you can click the accept once and never see it again.

TomGullen 5y ago

The normal Reddit is completely usable - this is complete hyperbole

vidarh 5y ago
On desktop, yes. On Mobile, the normal reddit is ridiculously obnoxious unless you tick "desktop site".
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TillE 5y ago
It'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 ago

i.reddit.com is still the best version.

90d 5y ago

I feel anxious every time I see old.reddit mentioned. If it gains traction, they may want to "improve" it.

gaius_baltar 5y ago
They 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 ago
  The 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 ago
Their CSS is completely broken and nearly unusable on mobile. They're clearly "improving" it.
- xigoi 5y ago
  Old Reddit has never been mobile-friendly.

whoibrar 5y ago

You can also set to Redirect all reddit links to old.reddit

_-david-_ 5y ago

Last time I checked i.reddit.com was pretty usable.