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Comment by alasdair_ | Hacker News Reader

I agree. The new UI is utterly obnoxious on mobile - they keep trying to force me to use the app, including making it impossible to read the rest of a forum without using the app instead. It's horrible.

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If you're on Android, I can't recommend RedReader enough [1] . It's open source and customisation (also installable via F-Droid). I browse with a compact display and thumbnails turned off.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...

And for iOS, Apollo[1] is delightful. The most thought-out app I know about in general.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/sk/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

I wonder how long the API will remain supported. It's really not serving the master's will. Then all these open source readers will be dead as well.

the day they stop supporting RSS feeds I'll be really sad : (

No. I do not want to install an app to read a website. That is what my browser is for.

While I agree with your sentiment, Reddit is becoming less and less a website over time.

Reddit Sync Dev is the best reddit client on android imo. It has a lot of features I didn't know I would need, and the developer regularly pushes updates every few days.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda...

It's obnoxious on a giant screen, too. I get 10 headlines on the old version, but the new version only shows me one story -- so much scrolling.

I prefer the old version too, but have you tried using the classic or compact layout option on the new version? I personally use the classic layout and have been much less frustrated with it.

https://imgur.com/a/SBifQIB

The problem is the conversation threads. You can't read them in the new format. They constantly elide them so you have to click on them and it jumps around on the screen.

In the old view, I can read a page full of threaded comments on a thread I've clicked into. In the new layout, you get maybe five comments, and a scroll to the next thread. It is awful.

I don't get what you're mentioning. If you open a thread (in a desktop browser tab), you get the discussions just like before.

Not true at all. It'll only show some of the comments others will be hidden until you click on them, making the screen jump around the screen as gp said.

old.reddit.com alleviates this but not for much longer I'm sure.

Then the lovely firefox will periodically decide not to allow 'trusted site exceptions' disallowing you from visiting old.reddit.com. All in all I find it's too much work most of the time.

I don't see it. For example I just loaded one of the top posts now ( https://imgur.com/a/qTUuPOq ), and I can scroll through the whole thread, without any click.

I agree, hence why I live on https://i.reddit.com on mobile. It lacks some of the features of the new UI, but I don't use those anyhow since I just lurk/read.

I also find the new UI to be awful on desktop. Just disastrously slow. I hardly use Reddit anymore part of it the community and me just having different priorities but the other part is this new Mobile first mentality. I’ll use old.Reddit.com until they finally kill it.

The new version of reddit bogs down FF to where I have to restart if I want to keep scrolling. This is on a TR3960X with 64GB of memory. I haven't checked the resource manager when that happens but I probably should.

RedditIsFun is a fantastic app with a great dual pane mode. It almost feels like the desktop and having multiple tabs open.

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