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The only app I use to browse Reddit is old.reddit.com. It's still great on mobile if you have a browser with proper text reflow (ie. Opera on Android, since all others can't be bothered). But everytime I end up seeing the "new" design it's instantly repelling, I can't browse it even once. This is Digg all over again!

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> a browser with proper text reflow (ie. Opera on Android, since all others can't be bothered)

The sad thing is all browsers can reflow text, they just demand websites add a meta tag and will otherwise emulate a larger desktop-sized viewport. This is even more ridiculous now that these browsers also hava a separate desktop mode that also enforces this behavior even with the tag but still couldn't be bothered to fix the default.

Word is they're going to take down old.reddit as well.

Soon as they do, I'm out. I actually like a lot of Reddit but it's literally unusable for me without a clean UI, just like Twitter. Every time I get a Twitter link I brace for a million requests before even getting to the short Tweet. It's enough to not even bother most of the time, I can't even imagine being a user.

I'm right there with you. Twitter is almost as bad as TikTok and I don't have an account for either.

My solution was to spin up Nitter and Proxitok on my docker host and set the appropriate redirects on my laptop browsers and Kiwi browser on Android devices. A total of 15mins of work and now I can look at all the links my friends send like browsing in 2006 again.

That's actually an incredible idea, I'll do something similar, thanks!

thanks, you just saved my procrastinating on reddit on mobile (it's fine in Firefox for Android btw)

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