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For pretty much any product or review related search I just do "<product name> reddit" and then scour the somewhat up voted posts for information. Have to deal with tons of dead links though for any post older than a couple of years. The Web really seems like it's an awful place. The original dream of hyper links is really dead. It's all about jumping from walled garden to walled garden through tricks and luck.

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1. Search "<product name> reddit" 2. AMP page loads 3. "See Reddit in... App or Browser?" banner w/ grayed out page. Tap Browser. 4. Click through the AMP page to the real Reddit page. 5. Second "See Reddit in... App or Browser?" banner w/ grayed out page. Tap Browser. 6. Fail to read the majority of comments, which are hidden by New Reddit. 6. Manually edit URL bar to replace "www." with "old." 7. Read the comments.

For Reddit on mobile, try "i." instead of "old.".

They screwed the address bar so you cannot edit it easily

That's still more user friendly than trying to read peoples instagram without an account.

In the new Reddit settings you can disable new Reddit, which will make the regular domain use old Reddit.

No broken links and much better experience.

Google is having trouble determining the date of reddit posts and is also making their filter rules useless. You try to filter last month, a result says 3 days ago and you click, but reddit says it was 2y ago!

Agreed, this is infuriating

and reddit has gotten much less useful with all their push for login and using their app...

This in no way absolves their god awful mobile experience but if you're logged into Reddit with the new UI turned off or use the Old Reddit Redirect add-on it's basically as if nothing on Reddit changed since 2011.

The new UI is great! It keeps the programmers occupied so they stop messing with the old UI that I actually want to use.

Till one day they pull the old UI and theres nothing you can do about it

I mean there's not nothing you can do. You can still grab the source to old Reddit and it's just a matter of gluing the old UI to the new API like all the 3rd party clients do.

Not trivial by any means but there's a lot of prior art floating around you could pull from.

Sure they could pull API access and be more hostile to scrapers but that's the current escape hatch for people who would have left because of the redesign.

The day they turn off old reddit and stop third party API access is the day I can finally detox myself from reddit.

I'm even more worried they'll shut off the API at some point and start going hostile to third-party clients.

That might begin the next major exodus. Digg -> Reddit -> ???

:) The old wife and a mistress approach

This was one of the few UI changes that I never got accustomed to over time. It's still just as bad, irritating and ugly as the first day I used it.

Their mobile website works fine for me, or at least the annoyances are a blessing because I spend less time on it. The one thing I do notice is if you follow a link out of reddit then go back, it shows an error instead of the thread and you have to reload, which loses your place.

Google still loads the AMP page instead, which looks like New Reddit.

That, and don't get me started on their search. Love getting 0 results on initial submit, then reloading the page with the results magically appearing...

Also love being redirected in order to continue reading certain threads

Use the Teddit frontend (https://teddit.net/) and the Redirector extension (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) to redirect all Reddit links to Teddit and view the content there. You won't be bothered by pushes for login again.

there is also https://libredd.it

Yeah. I had decent karma or whatever on a ten year old account and got banned for not having an email address. Shrug. Pretty much killed my reddit habit.

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