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Comment by wongarsu | Hacker News Reader

old.reddit.com is not mobile optimized at all, but still infinitely better than reddit.com. Alternatively, get one of the non-official apps (on Android I use rif).

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If you are just a lurker, try http://teddit.net

It works well on mobile and desktop.

Unfortunately, I really rely on my particular subreddit subscriptions to deliver the frontpage experience I want.

Teddit supports multisub URLs. I am not sure if the effect is the exact same as the front page, but it looks similar enough. Just create a multisub and save it in your bookmarks. Like this:

https://teddit.net/r/programming+python+haskell/

Is reddit.com mobile optimized?

There's a bug where opening a post from a subreddit's main page always results in a weird border, like it's opening the post as a floating dialog.

(Just to confirm tried it logged and out, same result: https://imgur.com/a/6yK9D8V)

That results in comments being squished down to a few characters wide and many many lines long

I used to think it was a "me" bug, but it's followed me across 4 iPhones over the years!

How can they have such an experience breaking bug on one of the most homogeneous major platforms out there? iOS only has one browser engine!

Looks like the desktop site, but somehow being responsive to the mobile screen.

Try m.reddit.com

m.reddit.com redirects to www.reddit.com

I prefer old Reddit because it isn’t mobile optimized. Most mobile optimized experiences are ugly, waste space, neutered experiences. My phone does a great job of rendering a desktop page. We don’t have shitty toy browsers anymore on mobile. Stop giving me the shitty toy experience.

> is not mobile optimized

Good! I do not want any mobile-optimized webpages on my mobile phone. That's what double-tap-to-zoom was invented for, and now pinch-to-zoom.

Try https://reddit.com/.compact

Even that has an upsell dickbar stuck to the top. It's a fractal of user hostility.

And it doesn't even show content on first load.

Once upon a time, links from .compact would always refer to other .compact links. That has slowly been going away, however. I think they are trying to slowly kill it off.

old.reddit.com with javascript turned off is largely fine if you just lurk and don't want to go 20 layers deep into the comments.

Just this week they changed "visit old reddit" to be under a "more" item in the menu. I am concerned that this is the first step to removing it for good. I don't know how to get my interaction data except on old reddit.

rif made it so much more bearable to use reddit on mobile. But since I switched to ios I have not found an app that can compare to rif.

Do you need a Reddit account to use the unofficial apps? Also, I prefer to search Reddit content from Google - will Reddit links open in one of those apps, instead of giving me the usual shitty Reddit Web UX?

I'm surprised that there isn't a version of the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension for old.reddit.com. Especially now that they had to trim features to support the redesign.

A friend just recommended this extension to me, but I'm hesitant to add new extensions. Good ol greasemonkey now redirects me to old reddit

I have RES and it works with the old design.

i.reddit.com

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