The site always sucked unless it was old.reddit and it was only useful on mobile apps. Once the API stuff happened.. well.. here I am.
I am not surprised they took something that was already bad and made it worse.
The mobile website is god awful. Forcing you to use the app which also sucks.
If you’re on iOS then Sink It for Reddit and actually makes the mobile website usable again.
Also make sure to go into Reddit’s own settings and disable feed recommendations if you browse the main homepage feed. I’m 99% sure I had this disabled and they just ninja-reenabled it with the update.
My own bad experience was when they rushly announced the death of third party apps. I tried to give the official app a try back then, used rif since 2012 before.
I couldn't even log in due to an error. The app was deleted minutes later and with the API-kill I moved to lemmy.
Same exact boat here. RIF was the shit. Damn shame about all that.
I joined the Fediverse after Reddit shut down the 3rd party apps, with it my beloved RIF. Tried out the official app and recoiled in disgust. SO. MANY. FUCKING. ADS. Been browsing Reddit with mobile Firefox and uBlock Origin ever since. Still had some issues with pages repeating themselves after the 5th page or so, but still sufficient for the occasional scroll.
Well, as you guess it: Mobile UI redesign. Pages take 10 seconds to load, shift 5 times as my poor poor ad blocker is forced to take up overtime. And the ads are terrible, I saw a user complaining about NSFW medical gore ads and they were asking how to disable them. The answer was simply: You can't opt out of that selection, buy premium.
At least I found out how to get RIF back into working order again, using the ReVanced Manager. Even completely without ads. Reddit will get no penny from me ever again. I'll keep browsing it and using their bandwidth, but never comment or vote anymore.
As a car mechanic, I frequent a lot of tech support subs and like helping people. I still do that, but in DMs. This way Reddit can't use my content to display more ads. I have no beef with the people using Reddit for help. My beef is solely with their management and u/spez specifically.
Obligatory fuck u/spez.
It was the first that popped up back in 2012, when I got my first smart phone. It stayed by my side till the end. RIP rif 🫡
I feel you there. I have since switched phones, but I didn't have the heart to delete the app from my last one after it stopped working. Left it on my home screen and everything, it just felt wrong to replace it.
I never tried anything other than old.reddit.com. And I'll never try the dreadful reddit app. Redesign has always been trash and terrible at loading content and pushes trash topics at users.
We have seen a small influx of users recently. Might be people upset with the redesign
This is why I just use old.reddit.com and RES.
If I'm on my phone, I use Boost.
The site completely shit itself when they introduced the ability to post to your own profile and add avatars. That was the beginning of the end.
Shortly after that they went with that fucking awful redesign that uses way too much padding and distractions. That was around the time they added the useless chat feature.
They basically shifted from a content aggregator to a social media wasteland.
It's like the developers had to implement 10 different "features" to cross link posts and this is the best they could do in ~~4 hours~~ one sprint.
Fixed that for you (using Agile Development!)
I don’t even recognize the site anymore. Old reddit is ok but I never used it much, I’ve used nothing but Alien Blue, Apollo etc for the longest time.
Reddit is just turning more and more into Digg.
New Digg(The curated one that people wanted to get away from)
of loginwall in comments
Even after all this time it's still a clunky blank and bland UI on desktop. One would think this would be a priority to fix, yet all that has materialized is a creepy 3D logo. Old is a total example of if it ain't broke don't fix it.
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