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Comment by julietteeb | Hacker News Reader

Looks like its being recreated by the first three employees at r/newsecretsanta (https://old.reddit.com/r/newsecretsanta/)

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I can't help but notice that your link to New Secret Santa is under the "old" subdomain.

Any real redditor still uses old.reddit.com, the day they get rid of that, I'm guessing the same thing that happened to digg will happen.

Give libreddit a shot. I recently switched from old.reddit.com and much prefer it.

It looks like a worse version of new reddit? Why would I want that?

The only reason I have a reddit account is so I can disable all the junk in preferances and not have to worry about the subdomain. My reddit basically looks like HN. Old is good, but not as good as what you can get with customization for now.

The new Reddit web UI is literally unusable: many links simply pop a modal where the options are "go back" or "install the app".

98% of my reddit consumption is via Apollo on iOS, which is still an excellent experience.

Sadly, Apollo is spyware. :(

>Sadly, Apollo is spyware. :(

Their App Store privacy report, as well as the app developer's explicit privacy policy, directly contradicts you. Could you kindly back that up with some evidence, or is this more FUD from you?

It uploads your usage data and identifiers (presumably username) without consent, and does so via IP, leaking your city-level location to the developers.

My information is coming directly from its app store privacy label.

Your reddit username is not your identity, and it's data which reddit already has. In fact, you can use it to browse reddit without being signed in, and reddit will glean much less data from you by the use of Apollo in either case.

The developer specifically states that they perform no user-linked tracking with their app. Their monetization model also supports this conclusion.

I'm going to make a sub /r/nonewsecretsanta and claim the original secret santa was a hoax. This is the hill I die on.

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