Old.reddit.com is now login only
I've noticed that old.reddit.com now requires a login, which affects my mobile browsing experience. The new interface is less usable on mobile, and I'm considering reducing my usage or moving to traditional forums. I'm curious about others' reactions and potential alternatives.
I’m about halfway done writing a replacement to Reddit, with no adverts, no tracking, no data harvesting, no selling of your data, no algorithm-driven presentation, no tracking pixels, basically none of the things that annoyed me about reddit. I don’t expect it to make me millions, or even thousands :), but it’ll be an experiment to see if a completely non invasive platform can work.
Well, that's my usage of the site on mobile over with now. The 'new' interface is even less usable in a mobile browser. Whenever old Reddit stops being available for members as well, that's my time to return to old school forums instead.
I will never understand the obsession to build terrible SPAs to replace existing UIs, that are, without exception, worse than the original. But I guess Reddit had a good run and all things must come to an end.
My experience is that it has mostly to do with the team structures within organization. SPAs allow you to create front end only team which can theoretically iterate faster with changes and demos. Btw concept of SPA is probably more than a decade old by now, GraphQl has taken over in lots of places along the same lines.
needed an excuse to compulsively stop visiting, this is perfect funny that i wasn't getting anything useful out of it for some time new version doesn't even work properly on firefox with ublock, comments almost never show up, video doesn't work...