101–110 of 145 posts
I'm also building, or trying to, a client for Reddit made with React. The thing I'm not achieving is properly rendering videos hosted on Reddit. I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible. It's totally closed from being played outside of reddit.com by using CORS. I can't in any way play the DASH or HLS files from reddit. I can load the mp4 fallback, but guess what? It's a video without audio. You can get the au…
Would some sort of slightly ridiculous iframe fallback work? That is, just embed reddit's entire video play page?
I mean, if I have to deal with that anyways, then I'll just use reddit's own interface.
I still use it daily and I have a small reddit icon which will open the relevant reddit.com post on a new tab and I can see it then.
It just shouldn't be like this, but "oh, well..."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, they forcefully unset it every few days. One of the more insulting parts of their UX. I bet forcefully unsetting it bumps their usage metrics for the new site though.
Mine never unsets, unless i accidentally click that damn button. I often mistake it for the reddit homepage link.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any suggestions on feeds for politics and worldnews?
In my experience, no subreddit on reddit is (or can remain) an unbiased neutral source of information about politics. Either subscribe to a bunch of them, one for each world view, or just classify reddit as a flawed news source and move on to something better.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's really inexplicable. Old Reddit was fine, not great, just fine. The new Reddit UI is hideously bad. It was terrible when it launched, it was terrible months later, and it's still terrible now. I'm honestly at a loss. Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy?
I think Reddit could throw away all of the new stuff and be better off. Everything they’ve done after maybe 2010 could just be thrown away. An enormous waste of programmer effort and time for something that is a lot worse than what they started with.
Honestly I'm pretty sure this could be said for the entirety of the web and we'd be better off.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy? Yes. If you browse it on your phone they even make more annoying by displaying footbar "launch on our native app"
For all the shit that the desktop web experience gets, the mobile web experience on reddit is a 1000 times worse. It sometimes blocks you from viewing certain ( cough NSFW cough ) subreddits unless you use the app, umm what??
The good thing is that refusing to download the app has cleared me of my reddit addiction
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.
It sometimes logs you out and resets to the New Reddit. These extensions (Old Reddit redirect) are life savers: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
great work, too bad reddit is becoming a political propaganda machine
The last few times I’ve been to reddit /r/all was just full of news about Donald Trump. As someone that doesn’t really get current American politics I’m just so confused at how people don’t get tired of it. Like I get it, fill the front page for a few days in 2016... but its like every day... all the time... I just want cute pictures of cats... can’t we just have 1 happy place.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's fine until they discontinue old.reddit.com at some point in the near future.
By then hopefully reddit alternatives like Lemmy[1] become viable 1 - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
I'm also building, or trying to, a client for Reddit made with React. The thing I'm not achieving is properly rendering videos hosted on Reddit. I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible. It's totally closed from being played outside of reddit.com by using CORS. I can't in any way play the DASH or HLS files from reddit. I can load the mp4 fallback, but guess what? It's a video without audio. You can get the au…