The reddit redesign broke my addiction. Their redesign is so disgusting and incompetent, it reminds me of countries that require explicit medical gore to be printed on cigarette cartons. Every time I have the misfortune of finding myself on reddit, it's as though I'm looking at a picture of a diseased organ from a dissected cadaver.
It still has the information you crave. Come back, we have candy.
Reddit /is/ the candy - a bunch of empty information calories that makes you feel good until you realize what you've done. 99% of it is forgettable the moment you move on to your next post.
you can still use old.reddit.com to access the site and set that as your default if you're logged in, my experience hasn't changed much since the redesign
And the URLs haven't changed; I run an extension to automatically redirect me to old.reddit.com
To be honest I'm thankful they broke my addiction and I'm not looking to pick the habit back up.
I block top level reddit, because that was too addictive. But I allow links to subreddits, users and posts, because that makes search results useful. I suppose that if you got addicted to specific subreddits, this approach is not as useful.
How did you set that up? I have something setup to do the same with leech lock but it isn’t perfect
I use Leechblock. It allows regexes as well as allow & block lists. I'm not near my main computer right now, and don't have the same setup here, but IIRC, I allow reddit.com/r/* and reddit.com/u/* and block reddit.com