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Tell HN: Reddit Has Disabled i.reddit.com
Requests now appear to redirect to regular reddit.
- ftth_finland 4y agoThe best way to use Reddit is via RSS pointing to old.Reddit.com.
- civicsquid 4y agoWhat is the impact of this, are images broken?
- nicbou 4y agoThis was the old mobile website, not i.redd.it.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoForcing people towards their mobile app
- throw_m239339 4y agoBasically it's jQuery mobile version of reddit, and it's super fast compared to whatever framework they are using for the regular mobile site. I just want to read posts, comments and answer them, nothing more, the nag screens telling me to download an app? the loading screens or whatever, just not... why is that i.reddit version so fast and the regular one so slow?
- jorams 4y agoIt still works on a different URL: https://old.reddit.com/.compact https://old.reddit.com/.compact You can add .compact to any URL on old.reddit.com to get the same version that used to be on i.reddit.com.
- codetrotter 4y agoFor now. Reddit is clearly, and has been for several years, on a mission to make the web version as terrible as possible so that people will install their app instead. It’s the only reasonable explanation. But I will continue to use Reddit in the web browser until the day they make the web version completely unbearable. And then I will just leave.
- pineapple_guy 4y agoFunny you say this as their app is also pretty bad. Their image slider is one of the most poorly made features I’ve ever seen in an app - with it never being clear what a left swipe, a double tap, or a right swipe will do.
- time_to_smile 4y agoThey don't want you to use the app because it's better for you, but because it allows them to collect much better and more fine grained information about your usage (to sell to advertisers and use the target you) and you can't block ads. I suspect the only reason they keep old.reddit.com alive is the is enough added content from users of that subdomain, while these users are also, at this point, the most likely to just stop using reddit altogether if it was remove. I assume eventually that math with work out so that it makes more sense to just get rid of 'old' entirely.
- lumb63 4y agoI’m somewhere between your last two states. I used to turn to Reddit frequently for results on topics I was unfamiliar with, since typically they have communities that are very passionate about nearly any imaginable topic. However, I hardly ever visit the site anymore. The begging to install the app is intolerable. I don’t want their application. I don’t trust it. I have no interest in it. But that’s only half their problem. The other half is content - the comments are so low-quality, censored, unsubstantiated, and echo-chamber-y to the extent that it is not bearable or useful for discussion or knowledge acquisition. Reddit will go down as having EEE’d forums and online communication as a whole. There are sufferingly few bastions online holding out from it.
- yrro 4y agoIt is simply incredible how much better the user experience is using the "old" mobile web site that hasn't seen many updates for what, over 10 years?
- xolve 4y agoAwesome! What are other reddit tricks like these?
- tootie 4y agoI think they saw your comment because that URL has stopped working in the past hour.
- ipcress_file 4y agoThis is redirecting for me now. At best I can get old.reddit.com. I think I'm done. Maybe Teddit.
- jabjoe 4y agoThis isn't working for me. I'm yet to find a way back to compact mode. Which basically means Reddit on phone is unusable. The information density is terrible on a small screen without compact mode. All pictures shouting for attention. Edit: turns out the closed the backdoor into compact mode. Enshittification is now in full swing.
- kzrdude 4y agoold.reddit.com/r/something.compact still seems to give the i.reddit.com interface, but it's probably a matter of time before it disappears. I'm also a daily i.reddit.com user (during commute).
- chii 4y agothey're probably slowly rolling out the update over time, but yes, it's all going to be gone. The i.reddit and .compact interface was so good. It is excellent design for mobile, low javascript/page weight, and has consistent UI for all subreddits (instead of the often custom CSS/layout stuff that i don't want).
- kzrdude 4y ago.compact stopped working today.
- rwparris2 4y agobooo
- pictur 4y ago[flagged]
- gammarator 4y agoNooooo! I used it to browse without an account. Not sure what I’ll do now.
- __derek__ 4y agoAlso reported: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35278588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35278588 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281562 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283379 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35288552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35288552 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343850
- metalliqaz 4y agoI'll continue to use RIF.
- skyyler 4y agoI have a growing suspicion that API access for apps like RIF and Apollo will be revoked in the next 3-5 years.
- kossTKR 4y agoI still find it fascinating how bad the "new reddit" was and still is. It is so badly coded there was an entire subreddit dedicated to finding bugs for a year or two that they simply shut down after a megathread analysed the amateurish spaghetti code that made up the frontend; race conditions, code duplication and library hell was everywhere. It's still super sluggish and the pop-over functionality is still so laughably brittle that it's a mystery to me how this was coded by a professional team. * Details on the "holy shit" (as one user puts it) React code here: https://old.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/spbylv/reddits_new_ui_is_made_in_react_and_is_slow/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/spbylv/reddits_new...
- legohead 4y agoNew reddit makes me feel flustered and annoyed. So much crap on the screen, and the content is just 1 thing at a time. With old reddit I can quickly scan titles for what I want to look at. Maybe you can fiddle with new reddit UI, I haven't given it much of a chance -- I just stay with what works.
- jtr1 4y agoThere is a dropdown menu just above the list of posts. "compact" mode will give you what you're looking for.
- MereInterest 4y agoPerhaps you’re in a different segment of an A/B test, but the only display-related options there are dark mode, or requesting the desktop site.
- jtr1 4y agoI've had it for several years at this point.
- commandlinefan 4y agoDigg committed suicide and reddit filled the vacuum, and was actually great for a while (it hasn't been for a long long time, but it was great when it started). Fingers crossed something good will arise to fill this vacuum?
- snwfog 4y agoIf you like compact reddit; you should try https://rdddeck.com https://rdddeck.com.
- dmonitor 4y agoAm I missing something or is this nothing like compact reddit? I single post occupies my entire phone’s screen
- freewizard 4y agoit seems targeting desktop browsers, not optimized for mobile. On desktop, it shows multi columns, like TweetDeck or Mastodon advanced web ui
- freewizard 4y agothanks for sharing. this site is great! there are reasons to like old./i. but given reddit seems friendly with 3p clients like this one, Apollo and many others, guess it's time to move on.
- segasaturn 4y agoImage hosting is a brutal, mostly thankless job that loses tons of money. I remember when Photobucket was the thing, then Imageshack, then tinypic, then imgur. Each one was meant to be simple photo hosting done right, but all eventually become the thing they were trying to replace - bloated websites with intrusive ads. e: I just realized this is about i.reddit.com and not i.redd.it, but my point still stands.
- Dalewyn 4y agoDiscord, specifically my own "server" I made for the purpose, is my go-to image hoster now. History thus dictates Discord will become a bloated, malvertisement mess in a few years' time. We'll see, I guess.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoIt's always surprised me that Discord allows direct linking to images from outside their software. I'm waiting for that to change.
- RankingMember 4y agoIt's already well on it's way imo. If I don't fire up the desktop app for a few days, when I do I'm greeted with an update, then a bunch of Nitro ads and other such cruft/nags added to the interface.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoI always assumed it was the data egress that was so expensive. So why hasn't someone made an image hosting site that uses Cloudflare R2?
- calvinmorrison 4y agoIt's sad but also seems to have eliminated my habit of redditing on the go. So I guess it's a win win.
- flerchin 4y agoI would love to know their metrics for the different user experiences. I generally do not mind what they've done with the main page, and android app. The reactions on hackernews clearly do not share that sentiment, but I have to wonder how much of their user-base we really are.
- gukov 4y agoI've been a redditor for over 17 years. This sucks, even though you could see it coming.
- marvin 4y agoAnd in turn, I have ceased using reddit on mobile after a 17-year streak. Guessing old.reddit.com will be the next to go, and then it's goodbye for good.
- beachwood23 4y agoI found this the other day as well. It actually only applies for certain browsers. I think they are doing the redirect via user-agent. Orion Browser (by Kagi) can still access i.reddit.com. This is the only way I will use mobile reddit. I don't need an app for something that can be a simple, clean web page.
- kristopolous 4y agoThe new site is designed for actual children and it's mostly worked. Generally as social networks age they skew older with the velocity of people leaving > velocity of people coming in = slow death by attrition. Take AOL or when Yahoo had social features for example. The step before death was their transformation to online senior centers. Facebook is on that path right now. Reddit has bucked that trend and is continually skewing younger. Teen related subs are some of the most popular on the site. I also find the site terrible but I've never played roblox or minecraft either - the site is no longer for me, I'm too old for it. But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in. Deprecating the legacy interfaces will get us old people off the site and it'll probably help them - a teen party probably works better without some 35 year olds who are in the corner only because they've stuck around for 17 years. And honestly we've all get better shit to do these days.
- antisthenes 4y ago> But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in. Yes, congratulations to them. Unfortunately for them, high school kids rarely have any money to pay for the things being advertised on reddit, so their business model still doesn't work, because older folks don't want to sift through a shitty UI/UX experience with a bunch of high-schoolers who are posting mostly nonsense. There are some nice subs that are excepted from this, mostly by staying small and well moderated by old-timers, but these small subs don't really pay the bills from what I understand.
- kristopolous 4y agoWhat we really need is a reboot of USENET in some magical way where there's no incentive to spam + micro nonzero cost to give them a reason not to, something like 100 posts for $0.01. The reality is you'll get weird spam posts even if you block links with just basically garbage text just because people can. So add an irrelevant cost to put it above zero. Here's an example of the spam for no reason: I've got a vintage site for a project http://bootstra386.com http://bootstra386.com with a vintage guestbook. Instead of filtering out spam, I filter it over to something I called spambook so you can feast on the glory of all the spam bots postings - it's so excessive and ridiculous - actually I think it's just erroring out from too much memory now. I'll fix it in a bit
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- anthk 4y agolynx -image_links gopher://gopherddit.com Set up your favourite VIEWER at /etc/lynx.cfg, or copy that file to ~/.lynx.cfg and place this at ~/.profile: export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/.lynx.cfg
- JudithAnsten 4y ago[dead]