many 'human' generated comments on reddit are very toxic. characteristic of a sort of oneupmanship of shrill accusation and doomer-ism that gets incentivized with karma. Even when the general sentiment is justified I find it unhelpful and harmful for mental health. Yet I still sometimes drift over there. It can be addictive to scroll through.
So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
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Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
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I mean, I used the old design for a couple years, but now I genuinely prefer the new design. I mostly view Reddit on my phone, and new reddit is much more mobile friendly. I have to pinch and zoom and scroll all over the place on old reddit. I know that's an unpopular opinion around these parts, but I also hate viewing this website on my phone so I use an app. This website really needs a mobile redesign, but I can't…
Also want to add, the new design is now after at least 5 - 6 years of iterations on React, is finally useable and better. Much like all decent JS front end / React based Web site, it takes years to polish to make it work to certain standards. I am not entirely sure why we have to do that and what benefits does it actually brings?
they put a bunch of their stuff in shadow dom. A lot of the decisions of course are not based on usability but monetization incentives. If the current decision makers could, they would have made reddit a walled garden like facebook but the transition is a little awkward seeing as it used to be a free and open site. looks like they are close to cutting the cord on that openness.
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You can still use old.reddit, you just need to be logged in. That said, if old.reddit ever went away altogether I would stop using it too.
You can do it without logging in too if you use an extension that autoredirects. That's what I do. I use a FF extension called Old Reddit Redirect.
Doesn't work for me. Seems like this login gate for old.reddit is being progressively rolled out.
Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
#624Old reddit still works for me even without login though. I'm too lazy to figure out which from the multiple of userscripts and addons I use allows it, but apparently the block is done half-assedly and easy to circumvent.
They're definitely doing it based on IPs. I just hopped to a different VPN endpoint and it works for me again (same browser). For now.
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I am debating an appropriate response, but maybe just an answer is not exactly what is called for here. What do you think a meme is? What function does it serve?
A meme is a unit of information. It serves no function, it just is. Like life itself.
This explains a lot and I am glad you answered this way, because it suggests that you may be open to the possibility that while, to you, memes serve no function, there are people out there, who can use it in a way that make the difference on whether it has an function inherently or not, largely irrelevant. Just like life.
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I never used to be an old.reddit die-hard, but new got so bad it chased me there to where I now use a browser extension to redirect all reddit links to old. I was convinced that the website continued to get worse so they could steer you into the app which hoovers up all your personal information. But then the app is so godawful unusable that I think we're just looking at straight-up incompetence. So yeah, I'm in the…
So, is it back to Digg, circle around to Slashdot, or is there a new kid on the block?
Digg tried to make a comeback, but was quickly smothered in the crib by AI bots.
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Also want to add, the new design is now after at least 5 - 6 years of iterations on React, is finally useable and better. Much like all decent JS front end / React based Web site, it takes years to polish to make it work to certain standards. I am not entirely sure why we have to do that and what benefits does it actually brings?
Just to clarify: I think an older version may have used React, but I just double-checked and current Reddit is definitely a Lit app built with web components. You can tell based on the comment placeholders used by the rendering engine as anchor nodes and by the prevalence of dashed-elements in the markup. Here's an example: Send a GIF They seem to call the current architecture "shreddit" internally for some reason.
Probably "shhh" don't tell anyone how bad this version this is
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#628I started getting it on new Reddit about an hour ago. So far it's only a couple of sub-reddits, but it's weird that this is happening around the same time they put a login wall on old reddit. I don't think it's a NSFW thing because I'm getting it on the College Football sub-reddit, which should be accessible to anyone. Guess they want to be more like twitter.
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Forms are sadly dead. They cost a lot to operate and maintain security updates for so without a critical mass of users they are dead
Just like with VR, you can keep on claiming forums are "dead" all you like. Me and all my friends will keep on using them daily. therearedozensofus.gif
"Good thing you're the majority of people, then." - samplatt [0]
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I mod a reasonably popular subreddit for work, and, looking at the stats as a die hard old reddit user, I was floored at how few of us there really are.
Is this comparing old.reddit to reddit.com? I am using the normal url but still use the old design. I just toggled a setting in preferences to use the old design without needing to go to old.reddit, only reason I ever use old.reddit is if I'm logged out. That might be even more niche though, it seems like most people actually use the other url which always confused me when there is a toggle.
>it seems like most people actually use the other url which always confused me when there is a toggle.
well, I for one had no idea there was a toggle until just now.