I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.
Indeed. It sucks so much I built my own :)
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#152Good to know I'm not the only one. I thought I was IP banned or something. It works when accessed with Edge (chromium) *EDIT:* Looks like it's back up.
Initially I thought my account was banned, so I tried incognito mode and it didn't work either, so I knew it was not an account ban. Then I thought it was an IP ban so I tried on my phone and it worked, so I knew it was not an IP ban. The only reasonable explanation from that point on was something bad was going on on reddit side.
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#153I can't help but have a sinking feeling that this as a result of the wider trend of using only Chromium-based browsers. If they were the ones affected by this issue, I feel like it would get solved almost immediately.
Seems a bit of a dramatic take. I think Firefox has a few engineers on staff.
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#154I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.
old.reddit.com until they finally kill it off, then I'll just stop going.
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#156Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox
#157I can't help but have a sinking feeling that this as a result of the wider trend of using only Chromium-based browsers. If they were the ones affected by this issue, I feel like it would get solved almost immediately.
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#158Anyone else have the immediate reaction/thought "oh God, IT has finally caught on and blocked reddit because of me"?
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
old.reddit.com until they finally kill it off, then I'll just stop going.
i.reddit.com actually works quite well on mobile, but I think this has even more risk of being shut down at a moment's notice so try not to mention it too much.