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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by boredtofears on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:07PM (#36342586)
Strongly disagree. It's just a plain old HTML website pretty much the same as hacker news (no coincidence that it's built in the same era).

Completely fine for reading purposes and mostly free of all the UX "optimizations" for ads and such.

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by kitsunesoba on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:42PM (#36343184)
HN is fine on desktop but I don't really enjoy it on mobile much. Tiny tap targets, font sizes and spacing seem a bit "off", etc, and so I use a third party client.

Have similar feelings about old reddit on mobile.

What it comes down to is that yeah they're better than new reddit, but that's not much of a bar to clear and if I'm going to be spending extended periods of time using a site/service the experience needs to be good not just passable.

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by nullindividual on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:07PM (#36343568)
There are some good HN mobile clients. On iOS I use (and purchased) Octal [0]. I find this particular mobile experience far superior to the HN website.

[0] https://github.com/dangwu/Octal

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by mynameisvlad on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:12PM (#36342668)
HN adjusts to a mobile viewport. old.reddit.com is literally reading a desktop site on a phone screen.

It works, but it's not a good experience, nor is it on par with HN.

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