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Comment by tifadg1 | Hacker News Reader

Best advice I heard regarding reddit: disable old redirect and embrace the new redesign. Outcome - my reddit browsing has become minimal, focused and no longer enjoyable for procrastination.

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Sometimes you want to find an answer to a specific question (e.g. you want to buy something, or trying to figure why something doesn't work as intended) that likely exists somewhere in the deep corners of reddit, in which case embracing the new redesign is signing off on torturing yourself.

It's no longer enjoyable for procrastination though, agreed.

The Apollo app is leagues ahead of even their mobile app, not sure why they don’t just hire that person (probably because the person gives a shit about the user experience, and the suits at Reddit are more interested in ruthlessly monetizing, ipo and all coming up).

Yeah, more likely they buy it to kill it like they did Alien Blue years ago.

Would just be another acqui-hire like Alien Blue

They hired the developer behind Alien Blue and totally, totally destroyed it in a few months, so I would hope they leave Apollo well alone.

The worst aspect of the redesign is having to click 40 times to see all the comments in a 200+ comment thread, due to so many being auto-collapsed. Old reddit lets me see more content with far less work.

The quality of comments has become so poor as the median age of Reddit users has dropped into the teens, that I think that was a deliberate design choice.

I still use old reddit and there’s a setting in Preferences to control comment collapsing. Is that setting not also in new reddit?

I've done this too, I was using alternative clients as a crutch but I imagine they're just going to pull a Twitter at some point and kill off API access to third party clients.

And I wonder how long the apps which make reddit still enjoyable incl. the one being discussed here would last as API blocking/restrictions are likely in the pipeline, Every other Ad based social network/community platform which initially had open API had done so.

The problem with this approach is that although you reduced procrastination you basically eliminated most useful search results. Searching without adding 'reddit' or 'wikipedia' yields 99% spam

https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask

I went further. I just do not use it or any other mainstream "social" network. Well that is except watching youtube of course.

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