The "new" web UI is so bad that I barely if ever use reddit on desktop. 99.5% of my usage is through the iOS client Apollo, which is leagues better than not only the official web client but also the official mobile client.<p>Both Reddit and Twitter are great examples of bafflingly bad first-party UIs, and it's comical because these vastly better third party clients are often solo side projects. How on earth are solo indie devs outperforming entire well-paid teams?!
You have to use old and compact together. /thread.<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/news.compact" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/news.compact</a>
I don't go on there much these days anyways... but if they remove "old.reddit" I just can't justify going on there at all.<p>More space is generally a good rule of thumb for UI/UX but when the "value" of the site/app is being able to grok through text fast, a "mobile-like" UI is awful.
As soon as they remove old.reddit.com that's a wrap for Reddit for me. That's the last thing to do before it goes the way of Digg way back when. Related where is Kevin Rose these days?
For android users, I can strongly recommend Infinity[1], a FOSS reddit client distributed through F-Droid. Infinity is just a joy to use.<p>[1] <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityf...</a>
After some testing, it looks that it still works if you logged in (and use "old" reddit, i assume, since my account do).<p>Then you can visit <a href="https://i.reddit.com/" rel="nofollow">https://i.reddit.com/</a> just fine.<p>With non-logged-in session, you will be redirect to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/?rdt=55049" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/?rdt=55049</a>
Reddit admin's comment on the topic: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdeicso/?context=1" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved...</a>
To whoever from Reddit corporate that is reading this - you’ve done something bad and unnecessary. The new “mobile optimized” UI is slow and buggy. The net result is that I’ll use Reddit less instead of clicking on more ads on your new site.
Seems to be still working for me: <a href="https://i.reddit.com/r/ottawa/" rel="nofollow">https://i.reddit.com/r/ottawa/</a>
If you like compact reddit, try out <a href="https://rdddeck.com" rel="nofollow">https://rdddeck.com</a>, its like Tweetdeck but for Reddit.
i.reddit.com is giving me a mobile website right now but never having seen it before, I don't know of it's new or old. It's reminiscent of IOS 4.