there's some shit that they can do called crowd control when the narrative gets away from them which makes it annoying to read comments

If you can use old.reddit.com you can get around having to log in, but frankly it's not worth the hassle.

Want to go to a "controversial" sub that doesn't do front page bootlicking for billionaires and/or "influencer" sociopaths? Too bad, you need to log in. I have nothing left to log in with because fuck that.

Every porn sub is behind the same wall, which is whatever, I don’t use reddit for porn. BUT this also includes any post that talks about sex in any detail. I could not count the number of times I’ve tried looking for sex toy reviews, only to be blocked by s asinine nsfw policy.

Ah but you didn’t mention the ads. The ads fucking load in the comment sections now, in between comments, not just at the top.

Obviously reddit was always shit but each update is engineered to become even more hostile to its userbase. Don’t even get me started on botting.

Lol every time I log in, its default sort is "best" but the scores on my front page are like:

0
100
0
200
-1
0
50

All of the 0s are threads that have been up for hours, have several dozen comments, and are some of the stupidest threads you have ever read.

Good website.

Want to go to a "controversial" sub that doesn't do front page bootlicking for billionaires and/or "influencer" sociopaths? Too bad, you need to log in.

The only reason I briefly had a account was to read CTH after it got quarantined. Deleted it immediately after the sub was banned.

I think it's all intended to try to force me to go bazinga and accept the le epic app. I am not downloading the app.

It's unusable without old.reddit.com

If you still want to use Reddit (yeah it sucks but there's a little bit of value still), look up how to patch your preferred 3rd party application with Revanced (https://revanced.app/). They also provide tech support in their Discord if you need help (yeah yeah fuck discord). I don't remember how to do it but it's been working almost perfectly since last summer, except for one hairy time around October when reddit broke something and the patchers had to issue a new patch.

I use the latest RIF Golden Platinum (v5.6 something?) which you can find on APK sites. It has no ads and I generally think it's got the best UI out of all the reddit mobile applications. My reddit experience with it gets to be very focused and text-heavy -- no shitty awards, no image macros, no bloated UI with tons of empty space, no clutter and bloat.

Notes: NEVER install something that claims it will just download a patched app for you -- it could be innocuous, but this is also a known way to spread malware. You need to install the unpatched app, then patch it with Revanced.

NEVER install a patched app that someone says they made to share -- it could be innocuous, but this is also how people spread malware.

yeah i occasionally browse it logged in on firefox mobile with ublock origin.

and it's fucking terrible. every other tap it bothers me to download the app. anytime you leave a thread it re randomizes my personal front page. reading comments is impossible below like 2 layers

YOU WILL LISTEN TO THE POD. YOU WILL CONSUME THE BUGGY APP.

If you want to circumvent the login requirement you can do it in desktop mode which then makes the interface even shittier because now it doesn't fit your screen and everything auto plays.

Awesome! Great website! Industry titan!

The braintrust at reddit has done its utmost to kill itself what with five billion UI iterations but they’re somehow still alive. It’s truly remarkable

I can only tolerate reddit using libredirect to always use libreddit. Recently libreddit has frebuently been breaking on pages I find in online search results.

Reddit delanda est!

I was at a large event recently and created an account for the sole purpose of posting something in the subreddit for the event. Only I guess I didn't have enough karma or whatever ?? so it just didn't show my post to anyone but me. Of course they don't tell you that you need a certain threshold or anything, so to me it just looked like my post was just sitting there. I guess they do it for spam, but I don't understand why they can't tell you that. It's outright hostile to new users.

on iphone safari at least, you can just set the entire site to always to load in desktop mode to sidestep the login requirement and just get a prompt to confirm you’re 18+. you do still get an annoying “login with google” prompt but that at least has an X in the corner to make it go away.

I still use third party apps so it's tolerable but holy shit the official app is soon bad. They should just buy Apollo for ios and sync for android and make them official apps.

bug vomit

took me a minute lol

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