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Tell HN: Reddit removed i.reddit.com and reddit.com/.compact
The classic mobile Reddit site is dead
- Sunspark 4y agoUse old.reddit.com instead.
- clircle 4y agoNot great on mobile phone
- worthless-trash 4y agoIs any reddit ?
- rvba 4y agoThe i.reddit (compact reddit) was good on phone Although there were issues with invisible edit button
- drivers99 4y agoThat what I’ve always used. I just zoom in and out as needed. (Same with Hacker News.)
- red-iron-pine 4y agoonly way to look at some (surprisingly tame, 100% SFW content) too. gotta be old.reddit.com. honestly the zooming isn't too bad and doesn't have to be done much. a well done mobile app would be preferable but it's perfectly fine for 10 minutes of casual browsing.
- mdmglr 4y agoJust a matter of time before they remove that as well.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- endisneigh 4y agoYou have to use old and compact together. /thread. https://old.reddit.com/r/news.compact https://old.reddit.com/r/news.compact
- tommica 4y agoAnd this is gone too now :( no more reddit on the phone
- layer8 4y agoThanks. Alas, this is more annoying for adjusting the URL on mobile. Previously you could just double-tap the “www” or “old” and type “i”.
- siddboots 4y agoI love that reddit now wants you to log in to view 18+ subreddits, and that the work-around is to replace "www" with "old" in the URL, asserting that you are indeed old enough.
- wolongong942 4y agoLol i noticed this. I can guarantee they're removing old.reddit soon, i can't see why else they'd do blocking on the front end this way.
- ikr678 4y agoI was under the impression that most high value content producers and moderation tools that make the bigger subs usable rely on old. They know they'll drive away all the power users if it goes.
- kelipso 4y agoFinally an excuse to quit reddit
- JadoJodo 4y agoi.reddit.com works for me still.
- layer8 4y agoRedirects to www for me.
- thrdbndndn 4y agohttps://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ Yeah, it still works here.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoInterestingly, Steve Huffman has gone on record at least 5 years ago stating that he will continue use to ensure i.reddit.com is supported. I think he said it in an AMA shortly after he became CEO. I figure as long as he is still at the helm it will continue on.
- clydethefrog 4y agoThe relevant comment in which he claims it's also one of his favourite methods to browse the site: https://old.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/8lv96l/feedback_please_dont_ever_remove_oldredditcom/dziwf1p/ https://old.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/8lv96l/feedback_pleas...
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoThanks for linking! Based on your comment it feels like I interpreted the original wrong. The person in your comment is not Steve, but their comment is basically equally valuable! So in practice what I said is still true, it’s just that whoever delivered the comment is not Steve
- MagnumOpus 4y agoHuffman is not exactly known to stick by his words if it hurts his bottom line... Remember when he and Ohanian advertised Reddit as a "bastion of free speech" back ten years ago when it brought them new users, and then he did a 180 on that when it was convenient to raise advertising revenues in 2015?
- a_bonobo 4y agoteddit.net and libredd.it are alternative interfaces that still work (until they shut down the API)
- anecdotal1 4y agoThey reverse engineered the Reddit API used by the official web client. It's not the same as the public API. Shutting down this API would break the website.
- zinekeller 4y agoI'm definitely sure that (at least) Teddit uses official APIs (https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/wiki#oauth-vs-non-oauth https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/wiki#oauth-vs-non-oauth). Are you confusing it with Nitter (which does use Twitter's undocumented APIs)?
- anecdotal1 4y agoYes, oops!
- selcuka 4y ago> They reverse engineered the Reddit API used by the official web client. Curious, how do they get away with CORS?
- sergiotapia 4y agoAs soon as they remove old.reddit.com that's a wrap for Reddit for me. That's the last thing to do before it goes the way of Digg way back when. Related where is Kevin Rose these days?
- aceazzameen 4y agoSame here. It'll probably be healthy for me when they finally remove it.
- hdctambien 4y agoKevin is doing NFT stuff these days.
- giantrobot 4y agoThat tracks.
- sergiotapia 4y agoWhat a shame.
- bschwindHN 4y agoI've drawn the same line, their new UI is just absolute trash. I can't tell if it's done on purpose or if they're just that bad at creating web interfaces.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoIt's 100% on purpose. One person can make a much better interface, as various alt clients have shown. Log in to show your age? How dare you browse without giving us data?
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- 3np 4y agoIt must be on purpose. What really drives this home for me is the aggressive folding of comment threads, sometimes requiring 3-4 clicks/navigations to be able to read all <10 comments on a post.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoThe "new" web UI is so bad that I barely if ever use reddit on desktop. 99.5% of my usage is through the iOS client Apollo, which is leagues better than not only the official web client but also the official mobile client. Both Reddit and Twitter are great examples of bafflingly bad first-party UIs, and it's comical because these vastly better third party clients are often solo side projects. How on earth are solo indie devs outperforming entire well-paid teams?!
- Aardwolf 4y agoI use the old reddit redirect plugin in firefox. If they ever take away old.reddit, that'll be very sad, since reddit will be practically unreadable then for me (due to the large and too image/video-focused new layout), and it still is some of the best sources of actual non-blogspam human generated content
- 93po 4y agoI will entirely stop using reddit if they take away old. I already refuse to visit it on my phone because of their annoying popups to download their app literally every single time you load a page.
- CyanBird 4y agoI use rif, which used to be called reddit is fun an android third party app. For some legal reason more likely than not they changed the name to "rif is fun" so technically it is named "reddit is fun is fun"... But yeah, it works very well, I have used it for many many years, and in the same vein if someone has got high recommendations to hn apps I am all ears, I have used materialistic for couple years but it has fallen short on more than a couple things and seems to not be updated anymore
- txtsd 4y agoThese are called recursive acronyms. GNU (GNU's not Unix) is the most popular example, at least for us Linux folk.
- andrepd 4y agoStill accessible with old.reddit.com/.compact, but I wonder for how long. Finally my cue to quit my reddit addiction? God I hate that website.
- irrational 4y agoThe design yes, but I love so many of the subs like woodworking, gardening, baking, boardgames, etc. I’d hate to have to go to separate sites for all my interests.
- andrepd 4y agoI'll rephrase: I hate the reddit default subs and the "reddit culture" in general. I am a frequent reader of some absolute treasures of a sub, like /r/askhistorians or /r/boardgames
- remote_phone 4y agoThe new ui is unusable in my opinion. I dare them to get rid of the old interface.
- r721 4y agoReddit admin's comment on the topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdeicso/?context=1 https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved...
- gs17 4y ago> reducing load time by 2 seconds I really can't believe their site was so bad, and yet it was.
- robswc 4y agoI don't go on there much these days anyways... but if they remove "old.reddit" I just can't justify going on there at all. More space is generally a good rule of thumb for UI/UX but when the "value" of the site/app is being able to grok through text fast, a "mobile-like" UI is awful.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoi.reddit.com is giving me a mobile website right now but never having seen it before, I don't know of it's new or old. It's reminiscent of IOS 4.
- JadoJodo 4y agoThat’s what it’s always been. I recall it’s a leftover piece of the “iOS-focused” web from the late 2000s.
- fuzzyninja 4y agoUsing libreddit (r.nf) all day long. It’s been a while since I’ve used Reddit’s default web site
- wanderingmind 4y agoFor android users, I can strongly recommend Infinity[1], a FOSS reddit client distributed through F-Droid. Infinity is just a joy to use. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityf...
- rationalist 4y agoDoes it allow for tabs, bookmarking, etc?
- wanderingmind 4y agoIt allows bookmarking, subscription fkr user, subreddit and even multireddits (follow multiple subreddits together)
- speg 4y agoSeems to be still working for me: https://i.reddit.com/r/ottawa/ https://i.reddit.com/r/ottawa/
- HashBasher 4y agoI highly recommend Slide IOS app! I don't know how they're able to block ads.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoHave you tried Apollo?
- thrdbndndn 4y agoAfter some testing, it looks that it still works if you logged in (and use "old" reddit, i assume, since my account do). Then you can visit https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ just fine. With non-logged-in session, you will be redirect to https://www.reddit.com/?rdt=55049 https://www.reddit.com/?rdt=55049
- chii 4y agoif you're using mobile firefox, i think the redirect doesn't happen from i.reddit.com (not yet anyway?).
- snwfog 4y agoIf you like compact reddit, try out https://rdddeck.com https://rdddeck.com, its like Tweetdeck but for Reddit.
- chewonbananas 4y agoI just realized that after unsuccessfully trying to load it for the last 4 minutes. What a sad day this is.
- afian 4y agoTo whoever from Reddit corporate that is reading this - you’ve done something bad and unnecessary. The new “mobile optimized” UI is slow and buggy. The net result is that I’ll use Reddit less instead of clicking on more ads on your new site.