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Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by leeoniya on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:58PM (#30947206)
please add option to use the old.reddit.com domain. the new Reddit frontend is an unmitigated disaster.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by notsahil on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:07PM (#30947337)
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by nicklaf on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:24PM (#30947604)
And in general: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

My rule for reddit:

  reddit: www -> old
  Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/*
  to: https://old.reddit.com/$1
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by unpixer on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:36PM (#30948601)
+1 for Redirector.

Also useful, for example, if you want to be the one in charge of whether your browser uses the desktop version of Wikipedia rather than the mobile one:

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org -> https://en.wikipedia.org
  Redirect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org(\/.\\*)?
  to: https://en.wikipedia.org$1
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by varenc on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:29PM (#30947673)
If you have a Reddit account no extensions are needed to fix this.

Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"). Once you do this you'll now see old Reddit on www.reddit.com.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/settings

Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by zamadatix on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:13PM (#30948282)
The best thing about this is other people don't need "old.reddit.com" to "new.reddit.com" redirector extensions. Reddit assumes if you put "old." or "new." then you explicitly want to override your account's preferences.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by zerocrates on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:53PM (#30950785)
I will note that this setting occasionally "unsticks" and you start getting the new one again... I assume that's a purposeful "feature" to see if they can cleave off some people who now tolerate it or don't notice.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by boomboomsubban on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:16PM (#30950440)
I have done this, yet your link takes me to the new reddit. It's incredibly annoying.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by zamadatix on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:15PM (#30952240)
Because https://reddit.com/settings didn't exist on old Reddit so it can't take you there.

https://reddit.com/prefs is similar but not actually the same page and, conversely, this old page will only load with the old interface regardless of your preference as it doesn't exist in the new interface.

Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by boomboomsubban on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:08AM (#30953817)
OK, with that page that's how it works. But I regularly click links and end up on new reddit while logged in. That's what's annoying.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by greatpostman on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:09PM (#30947381)
Years after using the new UI, I still think this.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by tmpz22 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:21PM (#30947570)
On new Reddit I get infinite loading on mobile, which forces me to type in old.

It’s frustrating that there are clear regressions on mobile even for a mobile centric overhaul.

Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by faeriechangling on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:32AM (#30954670)
I think regression isn't saying it directly enough. Reddit purposefully sabotages their own mobile site to entice you to install a data slurping app on your phone.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by jmckib on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:42PM (#30947866)
Don't even bother with reddit on mobile; you really need an app. I've been through a lot of reddit apps and Boost is the best IMO. Everything just works, and useful gestures that I usually don't trigger by accident.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by squeaky-clean on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:37PM (#30947782)
On some posts on mobile I get an overlay telling me to either create an account, or view r/popular, with no choice to view the post I found via search. If you do sign in you get 2, sometimes 3 consecutive popups to use their app. They definitely don't care about the mobile web experience except as a means to market their app
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by imglorp on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:59PM (#30948097)
You might also like https://i.reddit.com/ for pure, fast, HTML experience. Until they yank it. Sshh!
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by Skiiing on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:54AM (#30954810)
Reddit is a psychopath organisation. Strong words, but if you've ever followed a Google link to a Reddit page on mobile, then you would understand that no-one could accidentally build such an abhorrent experience, it is deliberate evil.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by marttt on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:06AM (#30953506)
+1, came here to ask for this. My preferred front-end has been https://teddit.net/ though. Fast, modest-looking and lightweight.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by supperrtadderr on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:37PM (#30947790)
Since 2013 or so, the mobile experience and then the new refresh is so bad.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by Kiro on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:25PM (#30948456)
What's wrong with new reddit? old.reddit is practically unusable on mobile devices. i.reddit is better but I still prefer new reddit.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by easrng on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:11PM (#30949054)
New reddit is also a shitshow on mobile. Load the page (which takes a while) dismiss the prompt to get the app, continue browsing, click Load More in comments, try to dismiss the login prompt, fail, give up and leave. On desktop new reddit scrolls all the way to the top when you Ctrl+click links in comment threads, it's a mess. I usually use libreddit.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by zerocrates on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:55PM (#30950807)
Mostly my problem with it is that it's buggy: frequently clicking a thread or comment chain doesn't actually load, but scrolls the screen as if it did, and other similar annoyances.

On mobile particularly if logged out (or particularly particularly if in a private browsing mode) it's quite aggressive about trying to push you to the app, or letting you view only a couple comments in a thread before saying you're not allowed to see more, or not letting you view some subs at all. "Old" reddit doesn't do any of this.

Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by Skiiing on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:01AM (#30954849)
It's not buggy, it's deliberately written to be so annoying that you have no choice but to install the Reddit app. Reddit is a grotesque company, which for some reason gets a free pass for their abhorrent dark patterns.
Re:Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' ... by faeriechangling on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:33AM (#30954677)
New reddit is even more unusable on mobile devices, as in, new reddit will LITERALLY prevent you from using the site.