Without old Reddit (and third-party apps on mobile) I'd stop using Reddit completely, I have zero doubts about that.
Reddit subscription is $60 a year. That removes ads.
old.reddit is showing the same issues that i.reddit had, such as redirecting you to "regular" reddit if you click on a title instead of the comments. I think old.reddit will keep accumulating small papercuts like these until enough users give up, at which point it will be shut down without recourse. Reddit can't do this right now because some moderation features don't work well outside of old.reddit, but the fact that everything outside the "official" website is being degraded or shut down should give you pause.
Old reddit has been working exactly the same for quite a few years now and I can't remember it ever redirecting me to the new version. Perhaps this happens if you're logged in and have the new version set as default or something?
Are you using old reddit? [1] Do you find that slow as well??
[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/o67vzg/how_tro_get_ba...
I only use Reddit on desktop and the SPA React app they made is still garbage.
I too am sick of subscriptions, and may find myself in the same seas I found myself at 14.
I'm of the exact same opinion as you. Too many services trying to leech too much $$$ from the consumer right now. With inflation and other essential living expenses as high as they are, cutting these other "nice-to-have" services is a no-brainer.
To each their own of course, but I hope more people (even folks with the financial means) will choose to vote with their wallets, because some of these policies are quite frankly getting out of hand.
To be fair, paying for Apollo unfortunately doesn’t support the future of Reddit. They need some way to keep the business afloat.
But what no one thinks about is how much the productivity we lose from wasting time on Reddit is costing us. If I cut out my Reddit use (while just at work), and replaced that with actual work.... I could easily make $3,000 to $4,000 dollars more a year.
And I am not particularly well paid. I don't make 6 figures, so that amount of money is a pretty huge deal for me.
But still our brains think in terms more like.... well I'd pay $25 for this one time, but I won't pay $5 per month because that's just TOO MUCH.
I'm not using Reddit on its own app nor the browser.
The app is huge and clunky.
The browser is turtle slow.
Neither gives me the granularity that Apollo gives me. The swipe controls are slick and so are the filters.
If I can't consume it with Apollo then it ain't worth it to me. And I already paid for the app. I refuse to pay more for something that is not a necessity. Everybody wants to make a subscription out of anything.
I'm in a cut everything not essential mode. This is not essential. Neither is Netflix. Neither is Disney Plus. I'm looking for more to cut. While i can currently afford all this, I'm sick of subscriptions that just are just leeching out of our $$$ our bank accounts month to month and that eventually add up.
Also, I've been considering cutting back on toxic social media and maybe this is just the right push I need.
Oh well. Had a good run.
*shrugs*