Dark mode, no ads, similar to old.Reddit.com layout. That’s all I need and this is good. Hope it’s not in some violation of Reddit and gets taken down.
Reddit's not real picky about interfaces like this, especially if they're not for profit. Really the only time they say it's problematic is if you try to pass it of as an official client or use their branding too heavily (Apollo, a client for iOS, had to change up their icons because it looked too much like the reddit Snoo).
Similarly, "reddit is fun" or "rif" for short, had to change its name to "rif is fun".
It’s open source. You could run your own instance.
It's been shown recently that it's at least theoretically possible for code to be taken down if it violates copyright.
That's been true for a long time.
It seems pretty hard to imagine this would fall afoul of any DMCA issues.
Can you elaborate on what is so good about the old reddit layout, or bad about the new one (apart from performance)? The way I use reddit, what it does now actually works better for me (again, apart from how slow it is): I subscribe to a mix of subs with like 50% of image and video posts. Which I can now just see full size without clicking, and quickly scroll through if not interesting. With old.reddit and teddit, I have to look at a tiny thumbnail to decide whether I'd want to see the full version. Similar for text posts: being able to read the first couple of lines isn't that bad.
Could it become a violation of their API TOS if too many people use it (ie too many api calls in a minute)