Gregory's ServerIt is fascinating how Reddit built a website where you absolutely, under no circumstances, ever want to share a link to it to anybody, because the viewing experience is so bad
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@Gargron So true. Nowadays I always use Libreddit (https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit) instead when sharing Reddit links. @Gargron That, and the fact that it seems everybody on there is 14 years old and sociopathic.  I tend to forget that they have this whole redesign thing going, but more often than not I do remember to send people old.reddit.com links to avoid subjecting them to that atrocity. @grishka I know that old.reddit.com is better for viewing threads and subreddits but neither version is any good at showing content uploaded to Reddit (videos, images, galleries) @grishka First of all, videos and galleries are still only barely usable with RES, second of all, that doesn't help if I want to show a video to someone who doesn't use Reddit...  @Gargron I never use Reddit because I was Banned for Promoting My Blog... as I do every day on Mastodon... To Them, I'm Not Worthy... but the "Let's Storm Area 51" guy is Excellent...  Twitter watches this and says "Hold. My. Beer WHOA THERE VIEWER YOU GOTTA SUBSCRIBE TO VIEW ANY MORE OF MY BEER" @Gargron And their redesign was so bad that they knew they had to keep the old one around on https://old.reddit.com @Gargron It helps a bit already to add 'old.' to the link, so it points to 'old.reddit.com' Of course there are other problems, I just wanted to point out a mitigation to this one in particular. :) |
@Gargron The reddit redesign was so unholy it was one of the main reasons I stopped using the site entirely