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> I have never encountered a more hostile website

I think Instagram and/or Pintrest often require you to log in before letting you see even the first picture you click on.

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The Reddit mobile website might be the worst. Every aspect of it is geared to making it as annoying as possible to use so that you are forced to download their app (or go find a better 3rd party one).

old.reddit.com still works, and the day they disable it is the last day I am a Reddit user (which I have been since the YC days, as an original disaffected digg user)

On mobile i.reddit.com is probably a better fit.

Not for me, it repeats the same top ~20 posts over and over when I use i.reddit.com

And it's functional like a WAP site in 2001 was functional. It's incredibly barebones to the point of being useless. I reckon Reddit forgot it exists at all.

ditto, I always goto old.reddit.com, I think its tough to adapt to a new UX.

wait till they IPO. They will need to show growth and will erode away old reddit features, with more nags and modals to switch to the “new experience” — so they can boost ad revenue

The push to open web links in a mobile app has already become a PITA

they already do it in other ways like having certain features unsupported on the old reddit app. old reddit also shows a cookie modal that if you click it takes you to new reddit because it doesn't exist on old reddit

They're all as bad as each other, let's not waste time ranking them. They're all shit and shouldn't be tolerated.

For my part, Teddit.net completely replaced the official website when it come to browse on mobile.

And it is SLOW as ass ! I keep thinking I need to upgrade my phone (Xiaomi 8 core - Android) but I just can't do it from a principal point of view !

Quora as well.

I don't believe Quora does this any more. They used to blur the entire page without a login but they relaxed that a couple of years ago now. I do notice that sometimes extended threads still seem to be behind a login wall but it's seems somewhat sporadic and inconsistent.

No it still does force you to login upon loading the page, can't proceed past. I know because it just happened to me.

Quora even manages to break Archive Today, which is pretty good with most other sites' stupidity.

I ended up just making a Twitter account so I don't have to deal with it. Plus I can follow whoever as well.

I did the exact same thing for Instagram. I never post or like anything.

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