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I could maybe deal with the atrocious new UI if it actually worked. Every time I open a Reddit link on my phone browser it prompts me to open it in the app in order to view most of a thread. But every time I click “open in app” I get sent straight to the App Store despite the app being installed in my phone.

Reddit's "open in app" textbook dark pattern is infuriating, specially given the fact that switching user agent allows users to access content on mobile that otherwise would force them to install the mobile app.

And given the ton of dark patterns that Reddit shoves down their user's throats... You just know that the app is up to no good and cannot be trusted at all.

I upvoted you because you were pushed down to grey and I don't think that's fair to do on a comment like this without a reply.

Your second sentence comes across as a bit conspiratorial, but one of the first "features" added with the release of new reddit UI was javascript click and mouse motion tracking, which was not clearly communicated to the userbase and defaulted to on even if you had previously disabled tracking, because this was "new tracking" and you'd disabled the old kind. I don't think it's unreasonable to distrust their app and frankly, it's terrible compared to the 3rd party alternatives anyway.

Seems like a good time to remind people about teddit an "alternative, privacy respecting, front page of internet" (front end for reddit).

https://teddit.net

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I am convinced they are making the website as bad as possible in order to push people to the app.

The mobile site stops working every 10 minutes or so, or whenever I lock my phone and reopen it.

What do people use for Reddit on mobile these days (other than the official app?)

I got logged out a couple of months ago and have been weaning myself off that toxic, stupid timesink but there are a couple of subs that are actually useful to me and that I can't quite quit yet.

On desktop I just force old reddit with a browser extension and have been OK so far, but mobile is unusable.

On Android I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda... with https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.laurencedawson.redd... which IMO is the best mobile reddit experience that I've ever had.

Adding to this one. I've been a paying user for years and I am fully satisfied. Sync is very actively developed, deeply customizable, and smartly designed.

Apollo on iOS.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

Apollo is a great client. Far better than what Reddit themselves did when they took over Alien Blue

on Android: rif is fun (formerly known as reddit is fun but they had to change the name)

I'm thinking I should just delete my account and it would show me garbage subreddits and the new UI (you can select the old UI if you're logged in), the new UI sucks so much that it would make me visit them less and less.

I can confirm this worked for me. The new UI is unbearably slow to use, and I strongly dislike the most popular subreddits.

I quite like Infinity, available on F-Droid

I just stopped using Reddit. The new design, the hostile behaviour, it's just not worth the trouble. Occasionally I will end up on reddit when I Research something on Desktop, and then I have a browserextension which automatically redirects to old.reddit.com. That's as much work I'm willing to invest for this site now.

I agree. I stopped using Reddit when I saw that even if I avoided the new design, its culture of discussion was being formed by 95% of people being on the new site. The new interface has only exacerbated problems with memes replacing substantial discussion, and an Eternal September-like feeling because the sidebar (with its possible FAQ and links) is hidden, leading to newbies asking the same questions over and over.

I go back and forth between Apollo and https://i.reddit.com.

there's a Firefox extension that will autoredirect you to i.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/compact-reddi...

(bit of a faff to get loaded on mobile but works fine once you've done that)

Someone shared teddit.net few months before here and it works for me well in the browser.

Is there some sort of condom-like proxy service like anonymizer.com that will proxy a site while logged in, but just sending back the stuff I want to see?

I think I’d pay a few dollars for this for privacy preservation and saving various annoyances.

I use various blockers but this kind of stuff gives me random negative feedback so I’m always in very, very mild dread of the next stupid thing. Being relieved of that dread is actually what I want to pay to prevent.

Comically, paying the actual source won’t work because even if you pay, they keep layering on crap to get more money. Paying once I think makes me a better target because an existing customer is easier to get more money from than a potential customer.

So I’d pay a third party, but not the original party.

Reddit serves json (just append .json to the end of any reddit link, e.g, https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/.json), so it's very easy to build alternative clients.

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