I wish Reddit ran something like Youtube Premium, a paid ad-free experience with actually comfortable layout.
How do you implement infinite scroll without JavaScript?
The theme tying all their choices together is costs they're willing to inflict upon their users. Bloated JS payloads are simply one example.
Technically it's possible.
Render the website server side as an image. Chrome 75+ supports native lazy loading of images, so a series of them stacked vertically is needed. Each image represents a new page, scroll through them to navigate. Click detection can be done with a <map> tag.
old.reddit.com
or for mobile
reddit.com/.compact
Both are low nuissance and both still work for me, although I am not sure if that is region based.
It doesn't put a big red "GET NEW REDDIT" in the upper left that does a single-click update of your account settings? What region are you in?
> reddit.com/.compact
I just tried that and the top 40% of my screen was spent on a banner telling me, "You've been invited to try out Reddit's new mobile website!" Clicking that lead me to a page where both the top bar and the bottom section harass me to install their mobile app.
Desktop site [x]
Fast, reliable and well designed. I really enjoy using it.
> reddit.com/.compact
I didn't know about that option. Bookmarked. Thanks for sharing!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
The slowdown of the new design is really noticeable whenever I visit reddit on another browser or computer.
Reddit new style also eats way more cpu cycles than needed, which is very important when you visit the site on potato hardware
> The resource at “https://www.reddit.com/r/all/best.json” was blocked because content blocking is enabled.
When I try to go to that URL in latest Firefox on MacOS.
I don't have any specific plans about opening the registration up yet, but you (or anyone else) can just email me for an invite. It's not intended to be difficult to get one, I just want to keep the site's growth under control.
The address to email (and a lot more info about the site's goals) are in the announcement post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
I don't want to "GET NEW REDDIT" as I'm urged to in the top left of every page because I don't want a card-based layout. The whole reason I and so many others left Digg for Reddit to begin with was for a highly skimmable, information-dense site!
Similarly, I don't want to install a mobile app. The page worked fine on mobile when I got my first iPod Touch a decade ago. Why do I have to see a huge USE APP button in the nav bar and then lose another 20% of the page at the bottom to a See Reddit In section at the bottom that's also urging me to install a native app?
Infinite scroll actually slows down my browsing experience too, since it no longer loads as many entries at a time and I have to keep waiting for pagination.