this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Havent tried for a while, but you used to be able to change the url to

https://old.reddit.com/r/…..

to bypass these shitty “use our app instead”. You don’t get mobile view but you can at least see it

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago

the "new" design is pretty much unusable on desktop too, imo. IF I absolutely must visit reddit, old.reddit it is.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

There's also firefox extension that does just that, in case you forget.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

On mobile you can use RedReader. When reddit revoked access to its API, it made an exception for RedReader, because that app supports certain accessibility features which are "not yet" (i.e. never will be) supported by the official reddit app. So if you still want to access reddit on mobile, use RedReader, it has no ads and is much less irritating than the official reddit app.