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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by AutumnCurtain on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:59AM (#30114615)
Old.reddit.com is the only remotely usable form of the website and seems to have none of the obnoxious popups.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by 90d on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:06AM (#30116426)
I feel anxious every time I see old.reddit mentioned. If it gains traction, they may want to "improve" it.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by gaius_baltar on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:54AM (#30117230)
They are already doing it. There are a lot of seemly intentional bugs, I suspect this is a strategy to force users to migrate to the new one. Galleries and some profile features are not supported, and it is (again intentionally) slowed down on mobile.

Reddit jumped the shark already and the current state of affairs is an offense to the memory of Aaron Swartz. Problem is that a new mass migration (as happened in the Digg→Reddit move) is way more difficult due to the inertia and amount of content available. I just hope that, when it finally happens, it would be to a distributed or federated system -- Lemmy.ml seems to be the most promising for now.

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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by oalae5niMiel7qu on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:22AM (#30242279)
The amount of content available isn't a real problem, since Reddit deletes terabytes of that content on a whim. Consider it already deleted and migrate already.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by aordano on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:34PM (#30119972)
Their CSS is completely broken and nearly unusable on mobile.

They're clearly "improving" it.

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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by xigoi on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:53AM (#30125399)
Old Reddit has never been mobile-friendly.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by guerrilla on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:11AM (#30114762)
It gives a cookie popup on mobile telling you to go to the new website to accept the cookie popup. Insanity.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by spicybright on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:35AM (#30115071)
Not to justify how completely terrible it is, but you can click the accept once and never see it again.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by jagger27 on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:25AM (#30116744)
The day old.reddit.com goes offline is the day I delete my account. There must be vocal internal holdouts keeping it up.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by NoGravitas on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:06AM (#30114693)
If you don't need to comment, libreddit is significantly better, especially on mobile, than old.reddit.com.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by ajvs on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:37AM (#30115096)
Also teddit.net, which I find even faster and lightweight without JS.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by emptysongglass on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:49PM (#30118757)
If you selfhost Whoogle you can have it rewrite all Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitter results to your own self-hosted, js-free alternative front-ends. I love it!
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by whoibrar on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:15PM (#30117515)
You can also set to Redirect all reddit links to old.reddit
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by _-david-_ on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:33PM (#30120662)
Last time I checked i.reddit.com was pretty usable.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:46AM (#30116066)
i.reddit.com is still the best version.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by TomGullen on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:29AM (#30115012)
The normal Reddit is completely usable - this is complete hyperbole
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by vidarh on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:42AM (#30115159)
On desktop, yes. On Mobile, the normal reddit is ridiculously obnoxious unless you tick "desktop site".
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by TillE on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:36PM (#30117808)
It's absurdly laborious to have to click "Continue this thread" on any subthread with more than a couple levels of replies, which takes you to a completely new page. A genuinely awful experience compared to the old site, and for what?
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