The Apollo client on iOS is wonderful. Not affiliated or anything, I just love it.

https://apolloapp.io/

Slide for reddit on android is great. None of the new garbage and you can download videos.

Or just use https://i.reddit.com/

Slide is definitely a better experience than that. It's also released under the GPL and available at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/

Every time I land in it and try to actually read a thread, it fails to display additional comments when I click Read More. It bounces around to a reload of the "card" with the same handful of comments showing.

The new design is literally unusable.

You have to scroll up. It's absolutely stupid.

I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content. I frankly wasn't really interested in Reddit until the redesign.

Oh my god I hate the redesign. Not the concept of it, but the execution.

The stacked modals so that less than 1/3 of your screen is used for content. The laughably terrible performance and failure rate when loading comments that don't show on the main thread page. The fact that comments more than 3-4 layers deep can't be expanded on the same page and to see them you have to go to a different page. And when you do that, it saves your vertical scroll position so that they jump you past all the contents you were trying to look at, to where the 'related posts' are. Like honestly how hard is it to build a UI where the comment tree expands in-place?

I honestly think it's the worst engineered site on the internet that operates with that scale of users.

The whole component simply known as "the comments" is terrible, my only theory is that someone is paying them to destructively test mice through needless clicks.

My theory is that they are struggling to monetize a website that is extremely expensive to run and the engineering team is either too small or is forced to spend all of their time trying to develop monetization features.

Are there numbers about the money the make? I think gold brings quite a lot. But otherwise I think (and fear) reddit might be a great influencing tool if done correctly.

> give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content

How so? I don't see what changed on that front.

Surprised no one has mentioned that you can change to old reddit styling using the settings menu in the top right. That said, Reddit has become mindless fluff which makes me actively less happy.