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I don't know what you're talking about.

Reddit is lightning fast, and is very stable...

...oh. I got it! You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com

Ignore that, and head over to the actually functional Reddit at https://old.reddit.com

It's like HackerNews in terms of performance. You can still set it as default.

The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls that walk into it.

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> You might be trying to use the dumpster fire that's https://reddit.com

IMO this has dual meaning. Of course, the (new reddit) UI is not my preference for sure. But the content on (not logged in) reddit.com is just so unbelievably different from what I see when logged in (to old.reddit.com). Therein lies the dumpster fire. I've had thumbnails disabled since forever ago, and picked a handful of subreddits across a couple of multireddits. I never really understood why people would think Reddit was anything like Facebook or any such similar site. Until one day I saw what it looked like to everyone else.

Reddit for me looks a lot like it looked back in ~2004, but with comments :)

Note: you don't have to be logged in to use https://old.reddit.com

All you have to do is learn to type "old" instead of "red" in the address bar, and your browser will do the rest.

Kind of like typing "n <Enter>" probably brings you here, and typing "p <Enter>" brings up, erm, Pinterest.

For the uninitiated, there's an extension to redirect to old Reddit:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

P didn't bring up Pinterest. Something went wrong..

I was curious. play.rust-lang.org here. Figures. "n" on the other hand, exactly where you'd expect.

I was thinking exactly the same thing, till you mentioned old reddit, and I remember I've never actually used new reddit. I just opted out in Preferences when it was first released and have been using old reddit ever since. It's still the same good reading/content experience it was 10yrs ago.

There's actually a mobile web view which works even better than old.reddit.com - it's i.reddit.com , and it's even faster, cleaner, and less javascript, with the added benefit that it doesn't display any of the custom CSS or customizations from the subreddit (like the header banners etc).

And at least for now, there's a multitude of third party parties with all the features one could care about, minus all the bloat. But who knows how long the api will last?

> But who knows how long the api will last?

The clock is ticking on that. I'd wager we see it shut down within the next 2 years. There will be insane pressure to increase ad revenue now, even more pressure than was already there. 3rd-party clients are a "leak" in this regard.

I've used the old site exclusively since the rewrite (and for a long time before it), and https://old.reddit.com specifically is still the most unreliable large commercial website I can think of by a wide margin. It's fast when it works, but I get orders of magnitude more 5XX errors on https://old.reddit.com than on any other site I can think of.

> The "new" UI they have is unusable, and may God have mercy for the poor souls that walk into it.

This would be reasonable if there weren’t subreddits that are totally broken on old.reddit.com and proclaim loudly in their sidebar that they no longer support it.

You use custom CSS?!? Oh god it’s so awful. Turning that off is half the reason to be logged in.

I wasn’t aware I could turn it off, guess I’ll go do that.

Aside from disabling custom CSS being an option, I haven't ever stumbled into that problem.

Could you link to an example? In curious :)

https://i.reddit.com is where it is at. I hope they don’t disable this.

And if you’re on iOS there’s an app called reddo which is basically old Reddit redirect.

Unfortunately old.Reddit is not actually a great experience on mobile.

For that, there's i.reddit.com

RIF and Apollo are great for mobile.

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