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Hopefully someone will create a "redirect Reddit to Teddit" Firefox extension sometime soon :) ...similar to the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Please consider a more universal "privacy redirect" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
How to you browse reddit comments when there is a "load more comments" every other line? Granted this works better than how real reddit does it. For the real reddit I've just assumed that they deliberately made it unusable to force you to create an account.
You can see the behavior without logging in by going to the old reddit site.
No cruft, no cdn domains and no javascript . I gave up on reddit a couple years back, but this might make me rethink. With so many things turning to mud, this is a good thing. What I cannot figure out is how they do the [-] show/hide stuff without javascript? Even hacker news - which is relatively lightweight - uses javascript for that. EDIT: ...and I'm back. It's like eating a box of candy for dinner - sugar rush an…
Biggest problem with Reddit is the giant echo chamber. Feels a lot like twitter. Super aggressive replies if you’re against the grain.
The problem is the voting. It's not inherently linked to the content's value to the discourse or even welfare of the collective. Wrong reward metric meets a brain evolved for social regulation in small groups of humans dependant on each other's survival. Like with all problems of modern humanity, we struggle with a novel abundance we created...
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It feels to me like Reddit is only good for hobby or niche interests you might have. The main subreddits and politics are what make Reddit the shittiest. But if you stay away from these it’s ok.
I agree, your experience on Reddit will depend heavily on the subreddits you read. I'm somewhat active on niche programming topics, and people are usually helpful and respectful. I like that on Reddit I can stay in my bubble and not worry about the world's every single problem when I just want to relax. On Twitter, that's impossible. No matter how strictly you curate your feed, at least 1 in every 10 tweets will be s…
Reddit became a shit show with Trump vs Clinton, but now people attack their own for every little sign of life.
We really need a better social network. Twitter, Reddit, HN, Facebook, ... They add little, but break a lot.
Wait, I just realized after 15 minutes browsing this website that I'm not using VPN. Reddit is blocked in my country, so Teddit will be the replacement for me. I like browsing Reddit without an account, just to read something. But I don't want to install their super big mobile app (1GB+), and I hate their lagging and weird website on mobile.
Not sure if you're on iOS, but Apollo is a very well built third-party Reddit client. It's about 70MB to install, and lets you clear the data cache if you're concerned about storage. You can also browse without an account.
Slide is the best Android app I ever used and it's FOSS too, available on FDroid.
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The server is written in JavaScript, yes. But I don’t believe there is any client-side JavaScript
Which also means that under heavy load, the server just crashes generating templates for that many users instead of just serving JS and rendering on the client-side. There's a reason we do things like this nowadays.
Furthermore, there are easy ways to mitigate the cost of rendering on the server side. For example, on a site like reddit, most of the traffic is probably non-logged-in readers hitting the front page, so... cache the front page. Even for logged-in users, the front page listing only could be cached as rendered, since none of it really needs to be live. If liveness was desirable for only certain elements (e.g. voting buttons), it is possible to sprinkle on client-rendered elements.
No cruft, no cdn domains and no javascript . I gave up on reddit a couple years back, but this might make me rethink. With so many things turning to mud, this is a good thing. What I cannot figure out is how they do the [-] show/hide stuff without javascript? Even hacker news - which is relatively lightweight - uses javascript for that. EDIT: ...and I'm back. It's like eating a box of candy for dinner - sugar rush an…
If you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im Disclaimer I am building it. Key Points: - Minimalist design with focus on readability & usability. - Real-time messaging meets news aggregator - All posts have a built-in chat room including presence, typing activity, etc. - Fast, open, simple - Anyone can view posts simply b…
I like it. Thanks, and I hope that it goes well.
If you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im Disclaimer I am building it. Key Points: - Minimalist design with focus on readability & usability. - Real-time messaging meets news aggregator - All posts have a built-in chat room including presence, typing activity, etc. - Fast, open, simple - Anyone can view posts simply b…
Can you talk about the tech stack you used to build it? How much time did it take? Is this a solo project? Thanks
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You can conditionally style elements based on an input checkbox's `checked` state. A label element can also toggle an input checkbox's `checked state`, but contain whatever HTML you want. Put the two together and you can do interactive elements without JS: ``` Some DOM ``` ``` label::after{ display: block; content: '[+]'; } #input, .toggle-content { display: none; } #input:checked + label::after { content: '[-]'; } #…
That's nice! But I've been using CSS for 2 decades, how did I not know this?!