Edit: 50-60% on the web UI. I forgot about AMP pages.

Also, most "general" subs celebrate mediocrity.

Its interesting to contemplate if entirely new mental illnesses will eventually be discovered via toxic social media sites. I mean entirely new modes of dysfunction not merely "it used to be rare".

I moved to using inoreader recently from an OSS one. I really like it. I have my own instance of rsshub for hostile sites.

Consistent UI/UX, no toxic comments (train a filter), automatically archived, easier to share, can send to kindle, full text search of everything I read, no more ads/tracking/email subscription spam, keyboard navigation, works good on my terminal, etc.

https://www.inoreader.com/

In addition, their yearly April Fools' events (a bad idea in my view) as well the generally poor quality of posts during the first few years makes searching for past answers a pain. You get a ton of information that's flat out wrong, and in the case of April Fools' events the wrong information was actually encouraged (or written) by mods.

I used to browse and post a lot on reddit. Mostly in the subreddits relevant to my interests and hobbies, but sometimes I'd open /r/all and drown in the algorithm-generated feed. It was so easy to waste time on reddit.

I'm thankful for the user-hostile experience they've implemented. Made it so much easier to stop using it altogether.

Can't wait until some manager decides old needs to go. They'll end up losing a bunch of long time users and some other site will finally gain traction.

But yeah, old.reddit.com probably won't be around forever.

After all, .compact links [0] still work, and those are super old.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/comments/imcl1h/reddit_a...

From the new features they have been adding lately, I'd call this a benefit... And that is the big disconnect between admins and the old community.

I was practically shouting at my screen the first couple times I got thrown into the new design (before I figured out how to avoid it). If reddit really does shut down the old interface, I will absolutely be gone.

Sure, but there's something positive about this. Usenet's external September happend with maybe a million users, Reddit's with hundreds of millions. Which means that bigger communities are possible without the problems happening :)

On the other hand, Reddit surely changed during its growth, so there were probably multiple similar events. After all, HN was created as PG felt that was not a good place to discuss startup ideas.

Edit: As a number of others have mentioned below. I too have reduced reddit intake due to the poor UI amongst a realisation of its not a good use of my time.

If the company decided to make the UI not friendly, they will likely continue to make user hostile decisions in the name of maximising growth and profits.

In this case using addons seems like playing catch up with low chance of a long term win.

NOW there's a sub that needs more love imho.

It's the best on android, but I haven't used it for more than a week or two. Don't want to get addicted again.

Sorting by hot gives you posts from smaller subs you like and removes all the political shenanigans

I meant 'best'. Not 'hot'.

Sorting by 'best' gives you content from smaller subs.

I have asked the dev to implement it. I have not gotten any reply.

To be fair they aren't the only company that does this, Twitter and YouTube both have horrible web apps that have horrendous bugs and needlessly missing features vs the native app.

Hacker news is basically the opposite site which is why I like it so much.

There are other issues, and it’s not great to use, but it is generally fully functional.

I'm really confused what OP is talking about...

The only annoying thing is having to press continue all the time to use safari.

If I am on a US or UK VPN, there are no login walls.

Try with an Indian IP.

Screenshots

I probably spend like 50-40% less time on it.

I'm weary of download apps for content I should be able to view on a browser.

The app "mysteriously" takes up more space than the Chrome app to serve, arguably, less content.

I learned my lesson with the Facebook app, namely, that these companies are shady and their apps always require more privileges than necessary.

But now? I do not want the app and Reddit seems to not want me then. Definitely helps my productivity a whole lot!

Does anyone have a screenshot of this issue?

Screenshots-

Any subreddit is like this on the web - https://i.postimg.cc/x1XcGBbr/photo-2020-09-04-15-23-09.jpg

Comments - https://i.postimg.cc/YC6TPCFQ/photo-2020-09-04-15-25-45.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/15HjNRQx/Image-from-i-OS-2.png

https://i.postimg.cc/6pp1VsW8/Image-from-i-OS-3.png

https://i.postimg.cc/x1ppts8t/Image-from-i-OS-4.png

This is what I see!

https://i.postimg.cc/8Cw9Q1ZB/Image-from-i-OS.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9sP0dKv/Image-from-i-OS-1.png

The most ridiculous thing is that if you click the "read more" link, it doesn't even work properly, the behaviour is incredibly stupid.