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As long as old.reddit.com still exists for desktop, the site is semi-usable, although the insane moderation policies and narrow ideology makes the site basicall
by paradoxyl 3y ago
As long as old.reddit.com still exists for desktop, the site is semi-usable, although the insane moderation policies and narrow ideology makes the site basically useless except for niche reddits. Though I have gone from a daily user years back to maybe once a month. It's that bad.
On mobile, I can still read direct links to reddit posts that crop up on HN using Firefox for Android. Can't say same for the Twitter, which just says, "You need to enable javascript." Well, I won't.
- ransom1538 3y agoThis post seriously changed my life. I had no idea old was working. Thanks.
- executive 3y agoWait till you discover teddit.
- jonatron 3y agoThe Old Reddit Redirect browser extension is good because old links to new a lot.
- esperent 3y agoThere's also teddit.net
- reddtastic 3y agoAnd https://reddtastic.com https://reddtastic.com (NSFW!). You can browse any subreddit with it (use the search) and Reddit’s front page https://reddtastic.com/r/ https://reddtastic.com/r/
- pixelpoet 3y agoBe warned, either new reddit or the mobile apps (not sure which) deliberately insert extraneous slashes or underscores into links, so many links are broken when viewing on old reddit / need manual editing. I'm pretty sure they're going to kill off old reddit, which will 100% certainly mark the end of my 15 years there.
- Vuska 3y agoNew and old reddit use different markdown rendering engines. New reddit is able to handle the slashes introduced by the new reddit WYSIWYG editor, it also supports fenced code blocks. Old reddit supports neither resulting in broken links and broken code blocks.
- RGamma 3y agoFor now. They disabled i.reddit some months ago (was better on mobile)
- atyppo 3y agoReddit conveniently unchecks the “redirect me to old Reddit” button every ~6 months. Quite annoying. I’ve been using Reddit for ~8-9 years and it’s gotten palpably worse. I knew it was dying the first time I saw an emoji on there. Seems they want to go the way Digg did.
- kfoley 3y agoThere are extensions that will automatically redirect you. I use this one [0] for Firefox and haven't had any issues. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
- atyppo 3y agoInteresting. I don’t think it’s a big enough annoyance for me to install yet another extension. Moreover, since I use old Reddit on my phone, I’d still have to change it back.
- vehemenz 3y agoFor things like this a userscript is better solution than a full-on extension. It is definitely worth it though, especially for mobile.
- dom96 3y agoStrange. I never had that happen. Are you logged in to Reddit?
- atyppo 3y agoYes. It’s in the preferences section only when you’re logged in. I notice it as I use multiple accounts somewhat sporadically and it seems like when I log into one after a while it’s almost always back on new Reddit. I’m not alone in complaining about this - plenty of threads on Reddit mentioning this.
- lelanthran 3y ago
- rchaud 3y agoOn the contrary, Reddit is one of the most useful sites out there. With Google search nearing total uselessness for local information, using "site:reddit.com" is almost obligatory. None of the real value of Reddit is coming from the parts of it that resemble Twitter or 4Chan.
- jghn 3y agoCount me as another person who frequently adds site:reddit.com to my google searches. I realize there's a lot of astroturfing that goes on there, but it's still useful when I want to get a pulse from real people. Also count me as another person who abhors the "new" UI. Every once in a while I get bounced out of the old UI and I don't know how people do it. The old UI isn't my perfect UI but it's darn near close to it.
- waboremo 3y agoAstroturfing is the least of the problems; most threads are filled with fake experts (of a very specific demographic - usually very young, american, male, etc) projecting. This is fine if you consciously remember this while browsing, but when you start to believe that you can get a pulse from "real people" on Reddit, you've already lost the game. Remember: to even post a comment on Reddit already puts you in a niche group of people who use Reddit. This becomes self-reinforcing as well, everyone else will feel alienated even if they do get over the hurdle of commenting, while those who fit the aforementioned mold will feel at home. Can't get much of a pulse, unless you specifically want to know what a very certain demographic feels once you filter out all the fanboyism and astroturfing.
- rchaud 3y agoIt's a good thing we don't have any of this foolishness on Hacker News! /s
- spacemadness 3y agoWe have plenty of diversity here. We have young, American, and male folks for instance. Even web developers if you need more diversity than that.
- Pxtl 3y ago> insane moderation policies and narrow ideology What, did you prefer the site in the days of the Chimpire? Jailbait? Reddit's history has been the perfect case-study in the downsides of a libertarian approach to moderation. They've come to where they are now because every other approach resulted in horrifying racism, sexual exploitation, disinformation, and abuse.
- justaman 3y agoThe moderators of major subreddits are extremely authoritarian. There must be a middle ground between free-for-all and thought police.
- dageshi 3y agoI imagine that requires a level of effort that volunteer mods just don't have the time or inclination for.
- ghusto 3y agoThen why are they mods? They literally volunteered to do that exact thing.
- dageshi 3y agoNo, they didn't? How stuff is moderated is more or less down to the top mod of the subreddit.
- namelessoracle 3y agoMany of the moderators get paid. Just not by reddit.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoJust some racism as long as you don't say the bad words, and light thought policing? It sounds like you want the HN mod policy, which makes sense bc that's where we are. Other sites can have different approaches though.
- rhdunn 3y agoMy biggest gripe with the Reddit UI is having to continually click expand to see nested/additional comments. It makes it difficult to read comments on a topic. I much prefer the HN approach of open by default with a collapse/expand button. It used to be that clicking outside the central border of comments would navigate you back to the subreddit, but it looks like they have fixed that.
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