I think reddit is still successful because its one of the only places where you can still find something without any algo or log in. But stupider things have happend so whatever.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Without log in

I can read a post for about 5-10 seconds before it covers the text and tells me to download the app, so in my experience, that's just actively untrue

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure old.reddit.com still works and bypasses all of that, not sure about mobile.

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago

They literally just today made old reddit log-in only. I assumed that's what the main post here is alluding to and it's also why I'm looking at Lemmy for the first time in a year lol

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you now have to log in to use old as of a few days ago

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well fuck.

Edit: Hmmm seems to still be working in an incognito window for me.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

might be regional, hit me in australia last week using zen browser on PC, seemed to similarly go nuts on mobile over the weekend

however, accessing new reddit with a mobile browser seemed to stop throwing the "get the app or login" overlay at around the same time as old was set to login only for me, so i can at least open random links on mobile without it freezing me out after 4 comments

[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesnt work on mobile for me. Someone else posted a link to one of the reddit scrapers, so I can at least use that for looking up random stuff which reddit is occasionally useful for

[–] whisp@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

on reddit.com manually add a cookie named redesign_optout with a value of true

Edit this cookie is one addon that will let you add the cookie, I'm sure there are userscripts to do it out there too.

That's for desktop, If your mibile browser supports addons it should work to add the cookie. Cookie editor is one such addon.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah if I wanna talk about say a specific movie or game or book. There arent exactly a ton of places online with active discussion. Now yeah I dont use reddit to talk about politics....but to talk about my niche interests ? Its servicable