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Ah for Gods sake! > "Unreviewed Content" > View in the Reddit app to continue. Nah, I'm good.

raldi 4y ago
I've never seen that before, but I'm configured to use the old UI. You can switch to it by changing "www" to "old" in the URL.
- thanatos519 4y ago
  On mobile I use i.reddit.com which is the mobile web equivalent to old.reddit.com
  - andrepd 4y ago
    I'm constantly amazed at how i.reddit.com still works. I've been using it for at least 12 years.
    - marvin 4y ago
      A lot of people will leave reddit forever when they take old and i down. Unsure if someone has understood this, but I suspect so.
      - bailoon 4y ago
        I doubt it will be a lot of people since most redditors use the app. But the few will cause a mighty ruckus and rage, rage against the dying of the "old". Reddit probably keeps old around because they don't want to deal with the incessant whining. God I would hate to run a social media platform.
      - Bluecobra 4y ago
        I will be one of them. I stopped using Digg and switched to Reddit when they redesigned their website. At least we will still have HN to be bastion of simple design. (I hope)
  - consumer451 4y ago
    sh.reddit.com also works nicely on mobile, but you cannot sign-in. For me, it has less bugs than i., which will not load many images and also screws up pagination pretty often. example: https://sh.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weekend_hacking_zork/ https://sh.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_wee...
  - Maursault 4y ago
    Reddit's conventional mobile interface is, much like imgur's, entirely unusable, yet it also stands out as astoundingly annoying. The mobile web is the only glaring mistake that Steve Jobs made in allowing web developers to irrevocably force an interface based on browser detection rather than leaving the viewing choice to the end user. But it's really controlling and OCD web developers on a per site basis that are to blame.
    - tinus_hn 4y ago
      You can tell Safari to load the desktop version instead. Unfortunately of course Javascript and the DOM allow sites to know whether you’re using a mobile device anyway, by looking at the screen size. So that doesn’t always work. But to blame those antipatterns on Steve Jobs makes no sense.
      - Maursault 4y ago
        Steve Jobs showcased the mobile web when he introduced iPhone and mobile Safari. Maybe it was someone else's initiative, but he introduced it, and Apple made it possible. I don't think anyone cares about bandwidth of a website anymore, yet we're still stuck with it.
        tinus_hn 4y ago
        Actually Jobs showcased ‘rather than this WAP version of the site we’re showing you the whole New York Times website’ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EfxMOElBE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EfxMOElBE Around the 1 hour mark
        Maursault 4y ago
        Well, you're right. He couldn't introduce the mobile web because there weren't any sites that offered a non-WAP mobile version, because no one could be surfing with mobile Safari when iPhone was first announced. But it was still Apple and web developers that caused this third Internet scourge, the mobile web, after the first two Internet scourges of Flash and Javascript. It's understandable that a mobile user may want to conserve their data using the mobile versions of websites. What is anathema is Apple giving web developers the ability to force mobile site versions for mobile devices even after the user intentionally chooses to view the desktop site. A lot of sites won't respect that choice without something like &desktop=1 attached to the URL, and often as not even with it. Imgur is one that even if you do get the desktop site to load initially, it will immediately go back to the mobile site once you click to another Imgur page. Slashdot, also, makes it a real pain to not view the mobile version from a device.
TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weekend_hacking_zork/ https://old.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_we... Loads fine.
spacemadness 4y ago
Everyday I am thankful I am not an engineer working with a product owner that pushes these annoying design patterns.
- CamperBob2 4y ago
  Absolutely. One of those things that many of us take for granted, but shouldn't.
m463 4y ago
https://teddit.net/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weekend_hacking_zork/ https://teddit.net/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weeken...
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I've never seen that before, but I'm configured to use the old UI. You can switch to it by changing "www" to "old" in the URL.

thanatos519 4y ago
On mobile I use i.reddit.com which is the mobile web equivalent to old.reddit.com
- andrepd 4y ago
  I'm constantly amazed at how i.reddit.com still works. I've been using it for at least 12 years.
  - marvin 4y ago
    A lot of people will leave reddit forever when they take old and i down. Unsure if someone has understood this, but I suspect so.
    - bailoon 4y ago
      I doubt it will be a lot of people since most redditors use the app. But the few will cause a mighty ruckus and rage, rage against the dying of the "old". Reddit probably keeps old around because they don't want to deal with the incessant whining. God I would hate to run a social media platform.
    - Bluecobra 4y ago
      I will be one of them. I stopped using Digg and switched to Reddit when they redesigned their website. At least we will still have HN to be bastion of simple design. (I hope)
- consumer451 4y ago
  sh.reddit.com also works nicely on mobile, but you cannot sign-in. For me, it has less bugs than i., which will not load many images and also screws up pagination pretty often. example: https://sh.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weekend_hacking_zork/ https://sh.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_wee...
- Maursault 4y ago
  Reddit's conventional mobile interface is, much like imgur's, entirely unusable, yet it also stands out as astoundingly annoying. The mobile web is the only glaring mistake that Steve Jobs made in allowing web developers to irrevocably force an interface based on browser detection rather than leaving the viewing choice to the end user. But it's really controlling and OCD web developers on a per site basis that are to blame.
  - tinus_hn 4y ago
    You can tell Safari to load the desktop version instead. Unfortunately of course Javascript and the DOM allow sites to know whether you’re using a mobile device anyway, by looking at the screen size. So that doesn’t always work. But to blame those antipatterns on Steve Jobs makes no sense.
    - Maursault 4y ago
      Steve Jobs showcased the mobile web when he introduced iPhone and mobile Safari. Maybe it was someone else's initiative, but he introduced it, and Apple made it possible. I don't think anyone cares about bandwidth of a website anymore, yet we're still stuck with it.
      - tinus_hn 4y ago
        Actually Jobs showcased ‘rather than this WAP version of the site we’re showing you the whole New York Times website’ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EfxMOElBE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EfxMOElBE Around the 1 hour mark
        Maursault 4y ago
        Well, you're right. He couldn't introduce the mobile web because there weren't any sites that offered a non-WAP mobile version, because no one could be surfing with mobile Safari when iPhone was first announced. But it was still Apple and web developers that caused this third Internet scourge, the mobile web, after the first two Internet scourges of Flash and Javascript. It's understandable that a mobile user may want to conserve their data using the mobile versions of websites. What is anathema is Apple giving web developers the ability to force mobile site versions for mobile devices even after the user intentionally chooses to view the desktop site. A lot of sites won't respect that choice without something like &desktop=1 attached to the URL, and often as not even with it. Imgur is one that even if you do get the desktop site to load initially, it will immediately go back to the mobile site once you click to another Imgur page. Slashdot, also, makes it a real pain to not view the mobile version from a device.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weekend_hacking_zork/ https://old.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_we... Loads fine.

spacemadness 4y ago

Everyday I am thankful I am not an engineer working with a product owner that pushes these annoying design patterns.

CamperBob2 4y ago
Absolutely. One of those things that many of us take for granted, but shouldn't.

m463 4y ago

https://teddit.net/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weekend_hacking_zork/ https://teddit.net/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weeken...

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