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The day either 'i.reddit.com' or 'old.reddit.com' stop working, Reddit will never again receive a visit from me. To other readers, i.reddit.com will solve all your mobile woes.

As for me, I find the front page to already be a cesspool of pretty shallow political takes, star wars memes, gaming news and awful twitter screenshots, all of which are pretty repulsive. I also get the sense that Reddit is used more by a new generation of kids, about half my age. I guess one of the disadvantages of being over thirty is that you lose the appetite to engage with teenagers/early-20s people who are on their own journey towards maturity.

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Have you tried googling something like: <technical issue> site:reddit.com ?

The results look relevant but often refer to other posts you don’t see if going to the link.

and a site:reddit.com with timestamp (last month etc) is useless now since it apparently uses timestamps off other posts that were visible in the same community once. Driving me avsolutely insane that this one site doesnt give accurate results on google.

There's also Pushshift[0], a Reddit analytics project that also offers a custom search engine[1]. It's clutched out significantly better results than either Google with site: tags or Reddit's native search, the few times I've had reason to try it.

[0] https://pushshift.io/

[1] https://redditsearch.io/

Indeed. I've found that what works best for me is to use an account with my subreddits subscribed to. This way, I don't get tempted to go to the home page.

There's also teddit.net, a reddit mirror that uses the reddit API to present a light weight skin. It is a bit too slow for me, and the features are pretty lacking. I don't think a spartan "no javascript" take is what's needed to cure the garbage that is full reddit web experience. Still it's a good first attempt.

I'm hoping someone will come along and create a lean, mean, yet functional semantic reddit web frontend.... That is, before reddit kills their API.

There's also: https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

And full-blown, federated Reddit alternative: https://join.lemmy.ml/

There's more than one federated reddit alternative. :P

As someone who's in their mid twenties right now, I do somewhat relate to that. I used to hang around a lot more gaming community subreddits but I think somewhere along the lines the content shifted towards more crappy karma farming memes and other shit posts as opposed to more discussion based posts.

I barely visit /r/all anymore because most things you find there are just not enjoyable or good. There are still some smaller and sometimes even larger communities on there that are good at managing a nice balance between posts but they become more and more rare to find.

My experience says hobby subs on Reddit are amazing though, and plenty of 30 or older generation. Used to visit leathercraft and bicycling sub daily, until real life forced me to forgo both hobbies.

Agreed. The more niche/focussed the hobby, the happier the subreddit atmosphere. I love /r/bikecommuting too, and also /r/ergomechkeyboards, /r/formula1, /r/financialindependence etc.

Reddit is where nuance goes to die.

It's about who ever yells loudest. At a point I lacked the energy to keep using it, like I don't use social media or online dating. Life is very short, and they put you in a box at it's end. No one's box has their Reddit karma count on it.

If you're interested for an alternative, keep an eye on my project (in my profile). I've been working on a link aggregator alternative for small to medium sized communities that can govern themselves and intercommunicate among themselves by using the ActivityPub protocol. The grand plan would involve convincing some of the cooler reddit communities to take off on their own using my (or a similar) platform.

I used old.* but never i.* Thanks for the tip, the jquery mobile look brings back some memories!

Yes, been doing this since they changed the site on mobile. As well as being easier to read and scroll through, it's far, far faster to load pages

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