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Comment by rapind | Hacker News Reader

Reddit is intentional though. They really, really, really want you to use their app instead.

[Daily Standup]

“Hey guys, you know how we need more user data to monetize but no one wants to use our crappy app? Why not just make the website horrible and constantly nag them via dark patterns to install our app?”

PROMOTED!

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I always use old.reddit.com - I find the default site virtually unusable

The classic forum style is part of the appeal to me. It walls off typical social media users in favor of people willing to embrace the platform for what it is, not what they are trying to make it via IPO.

If the communities I am part of (or built) weren't so entrenched and interesting I'd be happy to move from the front page of social media back to the front page of the internet.

There is two alternative reddit frontends, both of which should be smaller/faster

https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends#redd...

Ah, the familiar Facebook approach.

For years reddit was unusual in not offering an official app.

On mobile (iOS) I use an app. Just not their app.

Apollo is the best thing since reddit bought Alien Blue and shut it down.

Reddit can't even handle copy-pasting into the comment box unless the cursor is at the end of what's typed already. It starts to run up my i7 if I have just a few of those comment boxes open at once.

Navigating back to the list of submissions, which are already in the DOM and are literally visible through a transparency, takes like nearly a second.

Of course the back button doesn't work in most cases. It's pretty embarrassing if it's not intentional.

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