Over time my reddit usage has switched to entirely on my phone, and apollo is a fine interface. I don’t know about 2/3 of these patterns!
Apollo is the best.
Reddit’s disrespectful design
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Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#122Surely the most annoying thing is the endless requests to download the app. So irritating! I refuse to download it just because they insist so hard. Reddit is the most basic site ever, there is absolutely no need for me to have an app.
old.reddit.com is not mobile optimized at all, but still infinitely better than reddit.com. Alternatively, get one of the non-official apps (on Android I use rif).
i.reddit.com
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#123Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#124Surely the most annoying thing is the endless requests to download the app. So irritating! I refuse to download it just because they insist so hard. Reddit is the most basic site ever, there is absolutely no need for me to have an app.
old.reddit.com is not mobile optimized at all, but still infinitely better than reddit.com. Alternatively, get one of the non-official apps (on Android I use rif).
Do you need a Reddit account to use the unofficial apps? Also, I prefer to search Reddit content from Google - will Reddit links open in one of those apps, instead of giving me the usual shitty Reddit Web UX?
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#125Surely the most annoying thing is the endless requests to download the app. So irritating! I refuse to download it just because they insist so hard. Reddit is the most basic site ever, there is absolutely no need for me to have an app.
old.reddit.com is not mobile optimized at all, but still infinitely better than reddit.com. Alternatively, get one of the non-official apps (on Android I use rif).
I'm surprised that there isn't a version of the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension for old.reddit.com. Especially now that they had to trim features to support the redesign.
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#126Does anyone else want to rant about Reddit’s AMP pages that show up on Google? Oh I could go on about it… The managers at Reddit, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the preferred experience of a Google user searching for content on reddit should redirected to their wonky app. And if they don’t have the app, they should be punished with modals upon modals. “Reddit looks better in the app!” Oh, you disagree? Well p…
What annoys me even more is that they kinda block the ability to read more /all comments when you're not logged in, at least this has been my experience so far.
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#127Surely the most annoying thing is the endless requests to download the app. So irritating! I refuse to download it just because they insist so hard. Reddit is the most basic site ever, there is absolutely no need for me to have an app.
old.reddit.com is not mobile optimized at all, but still infinitely better than reddit.com. Alternatively, get one of the non-official apps (on Android I use rif).
> is not mobile optimized
Good! I do not want any mobile-optimized webpages on my mobile phone. That's what double-tap-to-zoom was invented for, and now pinch-to-zoom.
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#128I don't have a reddit account but some small subreddits are quite good. I use https://teddit.net/ on the desktop and RedReader from F-Droid. Teddit doesn't have infinte scroll and RedReader can be limited to how many are loaded each time and you have to press to load more. This way it's much easier to not doomscroll, there are far fewer dark patterns, it's lighter, less tracking. You can bookmark subreddits on a brow…
RedReader is a fantastic reddit mobile client for Android - they are rolling out a new version right now with a ton of community contributions (both bugfixes and new features). https://old.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/o7oxdu/version_1...
There is also Slide for Reddit:
https://github.com/ccrama/Slide
Available under GPLv3 ever since I remember, and always had fantastic UX (assuming RedReader has reached parity with latest update)
Re: Reddit’s disrespectful design
#129Surely the most annoying thing is the endless requests to download the app. So irritating! I refuse to download it just because they insist so hard. Reddit is the most basic site ever, there is absolutely no need for me to have an app.
I just found that there is setting checked in the menu (for anonymous and authenticated users) called "Ask to Open in App." I find it kind of curious that they would offer an option. Who would actually want this setting to be enabled? Maybe some developers snuck it in so they could use their own site without contracting cancer.
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#130I almost exclusively use teddit.net, and only switch to reddit.com to write comments. I highly recommend, that fixes all the UI issues!