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They've already gotten rid of the .compact frontend and actively removed workarounds/aliases that users discovered when it was first removed. Old reddit is definitely next up on the chopping block.

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Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB)

Was new reddit designed by actual morons? 24 MB and 190 requests! How did that pass any sort of QA?

Ad tracking, and obfuscation to make scraping harder, plus it's trendy to use lot's of JS libraries.

I just saw this comment on the Apolloapp reddit : >They’re trying to overvalue their services before going public. Execs want to cash out and move to a tropical island. I can’t wait for this cesspool to fail.

appending .i to the end of the url will still get you the compact frontend

I was quite sure you meant to say prefixing i. (which no longer works) but tried going to reddit.com/.i anyways and it actually works! I hope it stays operational, but surely they will also nuke it eventually :/

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