This is how you actually use Reddit:<p>- It's unusable on mobile and always has been. Don't bother trying. Use <i>unofficial</i> apps, not the Reddit app. For example, Apollo on iOS is excellent. It's an indie app with a really great, responsive developer. Pay real money for an ad-free app like Apollo.<p>- For desktop, set your user settings to always visit old.reddit.com. Yes, this is an <i>official</i> setting that's part of the user profile settings. If you want to stay logged out, there are lots of Old Reddit redirect extensions.<p>- Always use Reddit Enhancement Suite on desktop, you're missing out if you don't.<p>I believe Reddit's leadership knows that a decent subset of their longer tenured audience values old.reddit.com, but at the same time I wouldn't want to necessarily blame them for wanting to get <i>new</i> users on the app and using the newer website.<p>For everyone that thinks they're "yet another Digg," I don't think so. They have deliberately made it so that their existing users are allowed to use Reddit in the old way that they want to.<p>We can get upset about the dark patterns, but it's also true that social media customers are categorically not willing to pay for that kind of product. If Reddit charged even a small fee like $10 a year they'd have probably 1/10th of the visitors they do now. It just doesn't make business sense not to run off of the "data vacuum" model. Sorry, the MBAs are right in this case.<p>As an example, there's a common Internet meme where people joke about how nobody in their right mind would pay for YouTube Premium, even though it's on many levels an excellent product and a fair business model to pay for the service without seeing personalized ads.