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Incidentally, you may find GMail's "basic HTML view" works better when your connection's throttled:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049

And as for reddit, their old mobile view is still available at the "i." subdomain - it's so much lighter-weight than the dreadful JS-laden one they introduced a while back, it's the only way to use reddit on mobile IMO:

https://i.reddit.com

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I use gmail's Basic HTML interface all the time. AJAXy gmail and Inbox balloon to incredible levels of memory use pretty quickly, and are slower for most interactions than the full-page loads on Basic HTML, which means that someone somewhere lost track of WTF they were supposed to be doing all of this for.

It's easily worth the loss of a couple features.

This is commonly stated but not true under all conditions. The full-blown GMail UI has extensive latency-hiding capabilities. The basic HTML UI has no latency-hiding features of any kind. If you are on a high-latency connection but you have some bandwidth available, you will have a much better experience with the full UI. Otherwise you face the full latency for every action.

The Inbox UI is for some reason irredeemable. It is slow under all conditions.

I just tried it. My GOD that's quick. I think I'll stick with the basic HTML version of Gmail.

Reddit appears to be actively trying to hurt the mobile experience. They bought the best iPhone reddit app, and removed it from the store entirely. They are also currently trialling a version of the mobile site that does not work at all if you aren't logged in.

Personally I'd prefer they just show ads on mobile than make the experience suck on purpose.

I use to get the desktop version on my tablet (nexus 7, 2013). It worked fine, though swapping to .compact was a little easier to use.

For the last month, it's given me the new mobile version. It never remembers that I don't want to try their app (and the opt out link is both tiny and right under the giant yes please button)

But the worse part? I'm on a fast home connection, and the mobile site gives the same loading/network experience as being in the Welsh countryside.

It's a shame that their oldest mobile version, the original m.reddit.com is no longer available. It was truly the most compact way to experience the site. Barely more than a list of links.

Add .compact to the end of add reddit link (before the query) and you can still access it. A few minor things are broken but it still works well enough that I prefer it over the modern mobile site.

I think they mean the version before that. That version was REALLY barebones.

Any tips on low-bandwidth login pages for GMail?

Sometimes I can't even get to the HTML view because of the login process!

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