I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic.
What exactly is the issue with it?
Usually, clicking on the video does nothing. If I wait for enough seconds, it might start, maybe without sound. Or it might start the sound without the image. If I try to skip to some moment that hasn't been loaded yet, it usually just blocks and stops doing anything.
Maybe you have the exact browser/device/screen size/OS combination that the devs test on. Note I don't use the mobile Reddit app, only the website.
I'd like the devs to please just use the browser's <video> reader, without adding their own JS.
Maybe the new design is so obviously slower and broken that they see killing old.reddit.com as too risky (cf. the video player, the loss of position in a page when using back/forward, the un-followable comment threads that make you click on "more comments" 10 times a minute, and all the boxes begging for your email address and for you to please use the app).
I doubt it. I run Linux and Firefox. And Firefox on Android.
I’m almost certain this is by design. Make the web shitty enough and you’ll get more app users!
“Reddit is better on the app, and we pulled every last trick in the dirty playbook to make it that way” is what the web banner really means
!g site:reddit.com something I want to find