It's gotten so bad on iOS I registered an easy-to-type .com TLD and spun up a libreddit instance on it. Now I just have to double-tap "reddit" in the url and bang out 6 random characters and hit "enter". I was so happy when the new iOS came out with extension support, now I just redirect the tld to that instance automatically.

I request desktop version on mobile for reddit. The dark patterns break functionality otherwise. even pinching and zooming on old.reddit.com is better than that.

Also there is the "old Reddit" add-on for various browsers , auto changes the URL to old.Reddit.com

Unfortunately this is currently incompatible with current Firefox on android

Like most useful plugins.. :/

I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing.

https://secretkeys.io/oldr/

oh thank god. i had ben looking for this extension for ios. just bought it, and it works great — thank you

Can you further explain? I jailbreak and use a redirect to the Apollo app, didn’t know the new iOS could do extensions. Amazing. old.reddit.com is much nicer too.

Yep! If you check out the iOS 15 page and scroll about half way down, it talks about extensions: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/

I'm currently using HyperWeb[0], which does a great deal of automatic redirecting, ad-blocking, etc. (and other automation, if you get the pro option) though there's plenty of other extensions working their way into iOS support now[1].

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-...

Thank you so much! I still haven't updated and probably won't to get an untethered jailbreak but I know this will get bigger and I will use it in the future. Wonder if webassembly will help too.

I think this is finally the time to switch to Safari from Chrome for me.

I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing.

https://secretkeys.io/oldr/

Apollo now has a built in safari extension to do exactly that; redirect Reddit url’s to the Apollo app.

I get all those plus I've noticed a Reddit page crashing and reloading the page on mobile Safari once I've scrolled down a few comments. Every page does this without fail for me. I use those and the "Return to /r/popular" messages to remind myself that it's almost never worth my time and to go read something else.

The Reddit page loads without issues on Android with the Chromium-based Brave browser.

It sounds like Reddit and iOS is a really bad combination.

That the new reddit. They really want people using their app, despite the website work ok.

... for some value of "ok", after the horrible redesign some years ago

It's part of the Web 0.0 movement.