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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by epistasis on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:47PM (#19089023)
The degradation seems to directly correlate with the modern-feel of the page. I'm not sure if that's intentional. It seems that modern front end fashion is a huge step backwards from earlier fashions in web development.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by saagarjha on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:05PM (#19089225)
It's completely possible to have a "modern" page that is also nice to use; it's just that with Reddit modernness and horribleness have been conflated together and it seems like they go together.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by cco on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:55AM (#19093474)
Can you cite a few? I'm generally of the same opinion to the comment you replied to but I'm always happy to be wrong.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by Uupis on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:12AM (#19113168)
I don't know what exactly "modern" means here, but I think FastMail, Inoreader, and GitHub should count. All three have been fast and responsive. In particular, switching from Gmail to FastMail was a revelation.

Random aside: I've long been very down on web tech, but those 3 have sort of reinvigorated my interest in web stuff.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by rsynnott on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:49PM (#19097591)
Do you have any examples of this? Every 'modern' webapp I can think of has been an exercise in making it slower and more confusing than its old-fashioned predecessor. Especially slower. They're _so_ slow.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by andrepd on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:32PM (#19089480)
i.reddit.com. 2010 mobile app feel, blazing fast, light on resources. As it should be.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by mediocrejoker on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:15PM (#19091808)
This is great. Now all I need is a plugin for mobile safari/chrome/firefox that rewrites all reddit URLs to append /.compact
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by avhon1 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:00PM (#19092596)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/compact-reddi...
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by zapzupnz on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:13AM (#19094253)
> mobile
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by whyever on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:57AM (#19094430)
Firefox supports addons on mobile.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by konart on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:14AM (#19095164)
not on iOS
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by ship_it on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:55AM (#19096115)
Blame Apple for that. Not Mozilla.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by dralley on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:41PM (#19102820)
Apple doesn't allow alternate browser engines in the app store. All browsers have to use WebKit.

Not Mozilla's fault

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by WalterSear on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:12PM (#19089283)
They are building camouflage for advertising.
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