I hate the official app with the fire of 1,000 suns. So if my only options are using the official app or leaving the site completely I’m leaving completely✌️

[–] gds@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Reddit's official app, and in fact Reddit's official website is a hugely compromised experience, and I suspect the only reason they haven't gone further is that they don't want to push people to the alternatives. However this latest move to restrict the available alternatives seems like the beginning of the end to me and their app and site are only going to get worse.

That's why I'm here at least!

[–] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dat Lemmy puss feels so much tighter tho

[–] Woedin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I'm only a 6 year clubber on Reddit, but using RIF for most of it, couldn't stand how the app was going. Nowadays it's the content as well. Going to be exploring around here now

[–] boot20@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit's official app and new reddit are awful experiences and actively hostile to the user. It's nice to see a site that understands this.

[–] t0ny@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate new reddit so much. I just opened it. On my 1440p monitor I see 3 posts. Old reddit I can see 18 posts on one page.

[–] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I never understood this argument. I can't read more than one post at a time anyways and images are not immediately visible in the list view. What makes you want 18 posts visible at once?

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you can select the post you want to actually look at instead of having to scroll and scroll to find one that interests you. Like in a classical forum post, essentially.

[–] t0ny@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That and I have tendonitis so less scrolling past crap I don't care about means I have less pain / no pain.

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

About a decade ago, Logitech had this awesome mouse with a freewheel spinning middle mouse button. It allowed for a long spin after release and was excellent for up and down scrolling on a large page. Sadly they don't seem to be made anymore. They were really fun.

[–] t0ny@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I had one of those. They were pretty fun.

[–] forgotaboutlaye@expressional.social 2 points 2 years ago

@Gork @t0ny

MX mouse from Logitech has this unlocked scrolling feature.

[–] m_talon@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It's that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It's just a buggy mess.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

old.reddit.com on a mobile browser is still 100 times better than the "official" reddit app.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Despite it not being available through i.reddit.com, compact mode is still reachable at reddit.com/.i, and I find it even better than old reddit for mobile.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had no idea. I had never even seen this until today

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Always learning ;)
Hopefully reddit won't take it down

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

tried it out, doesn't seem to actually be usable for anything other than reading the home page not logged in and links thereof. For example I can't https://reddit.com/.i/r/Cricket or similar

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The ideal is to append that /.i at the end of the URL. Like so: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.i

Edit: which also works for login: https://www.reddit.com/login/.i

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

THANKS! Just in time for it not to matter anymore :-P

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

hehe x)
Reddit still has a massive legacy worth exploring sometimes, so having a nice way to do it is definitely good. Libreddit and teddit exist as well.

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