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There should be an extension that automatically redirects common websites to their lite versions.

reddit.com -> old.reddit.com

facebook.com -> mbasic.facebook.com

cnn.com -> lite.cnn.com

npr.org -> text.npr.org

twitter.com -> twitter.com (with JS disabled)

gmail.com -> gmail.com (HTML version)

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Twitter is barely usable with JS disabled. Any time you follow a link to it you'll get a worthless interstitial "would you like to proceed to legacy twitter??" with only one button: "Yes." As of recently, if you have cookies disabled for their domain as well you'll end up in a redirect loop and never be able to see the 140 characters of text.

*As for reddit though, if you log in with an account you can set it to always use old reddit in preferences.

No, you can set "Use new Reddit as my default experience ". At the bottom of the page, "beta options".

https://old.reddit.com/prefs/

There is no "always use old reddit"

Hmm, it always shows me old reddit when I log in. I just tried logging out, got new reddit, then old reddit again as soon as I logged back in.

Are you saying you have that checkbox you pointed out unchecked, and still get new reddit by default?

I navigate directly to old Reddit. However if links within Reddit (in comments, sidebars, wikis) specify the full domain, I end up at new reddit.

I basically never ever want to be there. I've specifically not enabled JS for 'www.reddit.com' so that the site won't load, but I still have to fix URLs manually when directed there.

What I'd like is for any 'www.reddit.com' I encounter on the site to be rewritten to 'old.reddit.com'.

I log in to www.reddit.com, and have the "use new reddit" box unchecked. Anytime I click a link to reddit (including np.reddit links) it honours my preference of avoiding new reddit (checked just now by a quick reddit search on site:reddit.com)

So maybe this is a misfeature on old.reddit.com, or you don't have the box unchecked?

I think they meant if someone posts a link that's not an np.reddit link, but a full link like `https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/`

As an example: visiting the Ask Historian's wiki in Old, all the links redirect to New.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/index

Ok, well if I visit that url and click links to reddit posts, like [1] under April Fools, they go to www.reddit.com but my preference setting of not seeing new reddit is honoured there. (i.e. looks the same as if I did s/www/old/ on the url.)

Not sure if you're saying that setting's not working for you or you're just annoyed that it doesn't explicitly link to https://old.reddit.com../blah/..

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b7rums/why_d...

If you uncheck that box though, you will always be taken to old Reddit unless you specifically go to new.reddit.com

It's _meant_ to do that, but from personal experience (and one that from what I've seen others share), keeping old Reddit enabled is extremely finnicky (apparently it's an issue with the way their server handles the old/new check) and it'll randomly switch to new Reddit.

I personally wound up using an extension[1] to keep old Reddit active, which so far has taken care of the weird behavior.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redir...

twitter.com -> m.twitter.com appears to be the mobile, non-JS version. (I don't use it to tweet, but I get linked to it to read some things sometimes, and that functionality works fine.)

Hm, so maybe all I need is an extension to rewrite twitter links to the mobile version. Will look into, thanks!

The current workaround to those issues for Twitter (while it still lasts) is to set the user agent to Opera 12. To handle that for Vivaldi/Chromium I use a nice little user agent extension [1] that allows auto UA switching based on domain.

[1] https://github.com/eminentspoon/chrome-extension-useragent

Might work with internet explorer too. On ie11 mobile I always instantly get the static twitter page. Loads way faster than the modern Js version on my note 7 which has four times the ram and twice as many CPU cores. It's both hilarious and sad.

>gmail.com -> gmail.com (HTML version)

gmail used to have an option to set HTML as default, but it seems like it's gone.

Only way to get HTML is to click on a link that's available during loading, nothing in the settings to make it permanent.

You can definitely make it permanent, it's permanent on my account. Can't remember what I did now...

Generate enough outcry on social media?

After you've clicked on it, there's a bar at the top with an option to "Set basic HTML as default view"

s/there's/there was/

It's gone. That's why I'm posting about it.

It still displays "Load basic HTML (for slow connections)" at the right bottom section of the loading page. :/

Yes it does. Like I said in my first comment, I have to click it every time I load gmail, because "Set basic HTML as default view" is gone.

Just use this as your bookmark: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

Thanks. This actually works.

For anyone interested, I just put together a userscript with some rudimentary key assignments for the Basic HTML version of Gmail:

https://pastebin.com/raw/kHyZXcTY

    gi    Go to inbox
    gk    Go to first label inbox
    t     Toggle checkbox of current mail
    mr    Mark checked mails as read
    mu    Mark checked mails as unread
    k     Navigate up in mail list (shift twice as fast)
    j     Navigate down in mail list
    h     Go to older mail(s)
    l     Go to newer mail(s)
    Enter Open mail
    r     Reload
    b     Back
    n     New mail

Thanks a lot! This was the only thing I missed from the JS version, but it wasn't worth the slowdown/heaviness that that version brought with it. Now this gives me the best of both worlds.

Thanks. I just noticed a bug though: You can enter the search field by moving all the way to the top pressing arrow up or k. And then you can defocus the search field by pressing escape. This works now and I posted it on GreaseFork.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/389680-google-mail-gmail-b...

On Firefox I use Redirector: http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/

I have it set up to handle Reddit and Wikipedia. News sites and Twitter don't get to run JS thanks to NoScript, so I usually don't have to do anything extra to get a lightweight experience there.

+1 for Redirector. I eventually got sufficiently sick of www.reddit.com that I searched for solutions and ultimately chose Redirector to replace it with old.reddit.com. It lets you use either a "wildcard" or a "regex"-type match; I chose the former, and this is what I've been running:

  Redirect:
  *//www.reddit.com/*
  to:
  $1//old.reddit.com/$2

There’s a couple for reddit at least. For some of the others you can get by with a bookmark, so typing facebook would take you to your mobile site bookmark.

Switcheroo Redirector for Chrome has worked for me to redirect amazon.com links to smile.amazon.com

Funny thing is that I'm pretty sure CNN Lite is a server-rendered React app, or was at some point.

Well volunteered! You can add:

* amp link -> non-amp version of same link

while you're at it, please!

reddit.com -> old.reddit.com -> i.reddit.com

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