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Yeah. Reddit is especially really intrusive and annoying. I feel like they just don't want people to use their site anymore. Whenever I open new Reddit, my memory and CPU usage goes up so badly.

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Reddit website unusable on mobile, it cuts all images in half for me (Nokia 3.1 and Samsung A51), and it's just laggy. I use RedReader from F-Droid instead.

Yes, it also loads forever, hides half the comments, constant pop-ups telling you to use the app instead, cannot read some (non-quarantined) subs without logging in, no NSFW without logging in, back button is broken, frequent error in loading pages...

On the desktop it still usable with old.reddit.com.

But honestly it's probably for the best, less time wasted.

They can't even manage to get their video player to work. Even your local news web sites, which ten years after YouTube still couldn't manage to consistently get a video to play in the browser, have figured it out by now. But Reddit? Nope. Requires me to hit the play button 3-4 times in order to start the video, stops randomly in the middle of the video, and "re-play" never works. I mean, we're almost in 2021! Developers, if you can't figure it out, just give up and embed YouTube.

My favourite bit is when it starts replaying (with full volume) after I've scrolled halfway down into the comments.

Same here, it's painfully slow and I click their search results only when I don't know where else to look. Given reddit's sheer size and popularity in quite a few countries, I wonder how many MWh and CO2e the new version uses and causes.

Also battery degradation.

old.reddit.com.

Use a browser plugin like this to always use the old site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

Doesn't work on Firefox Android. I never go to Reddit by typing URL; I go to Reddit because I follow a link to it.

Creator of the extension here. It actually does work on Android, it's just not in the (very short) list of allowed extensions yet.

There is a workaround to add custom addons, though: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issu...

Thanks for making this. It's useful every time I click a new reddit link.

There's a rich ecosystem of incredible third party reddit apps on android, as an alternative. Reddit is really unpleasant to use on the mobile web, even without the dark patterns.

The plug-in redirects to old Reddit automatically when following links, so if it worked for you that would not be an issue.

And if you're signed in you can opt out of the new site (Preferences > Opt out of the redesign)

Uniqueness of browser plugins creates unique signature specific to user.

This together with RES and Shine makes it really pleasant actually. In fact, I think you don't need to visit old.reddit.com for RES/Shine to work. CPU/MEM usage is off the charts though (has gotten much better).

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