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One thing holding me back from stopping to use reddit as a whole is using old.reddit in the browser. Can't stand the new design, and once they remove that option - never looking back for real.
On mobile, Lemmy all the way.
Can I interest you to old reddit like theme in Lemmy.
E.g. https://old.lemmy.world/
More here
https://gist.github.com/rystaf/4d591ffdcbaab1c49efa406885efd814
interesting, thanks! and it also looks identical. bookmarking this right away
This looks awesome! How about a clone of the reddit website that masks as a MSN webclient?
That's where I'm at. I only access reddit from a browser using old.reddit.com these days. Once that option is taken from me, I'm gone.
With RES of course
I've found myself in the same boat.
Not sure how I feel about it, but it's interesting to see someone else commenting about doing the same.
tbh I can't understand why people liked old reddit sorry I'm a zoomer idiot but still can someone help me understand?
More lightweight = faster and more content on the screen? Nowadays cool looking websites are slow and with 25% margin on both sides.
I feel the same all annoyed for example when doing some extensive search on PC vs mobile. No matter if it's a shopping hunt on ebay or gathering information. On PC i scroll-click 10 links, iterate through them, Ctrl+w the ones being useless and chosing/read betwend the ones left. Something unclear? Double Ctrl+C and deepl pops up with a translation.
5min on PC vs 20min on mobile, where I have to click each link, fight those pop ups and cookies consent, go back, wait anoyingly long 2 second webpage loads and repeat.
For discussions and news and long form text it's infinitely easier to browse and read in the old layout. The new one is designed for media and for making you quickly jump between threads
I'm more of a list person than someone who prefers cards type of style. With a list, I find it easier to navigate and get a better overview of everything, rather than seeing just a few posts at a time without scrolling.
I used to use reddit with Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), a browser add-on/extension that has tons of customizations. This was even before there was an old/new reddit, it was just reddit.
So it's not that we chose to use "old" reddit, it was that we chose not to use "new" reddit. Going to the new design breaks RES and we would've missed out on all of those customizations and quality-of-life features that were missing without it.
Plus, "new" reddit is designed for doom-scrolling and serving adds, and not about promoting users to engage in dialog. Most of my reddit interaction was around niche content, where I actually dived deep into threads. New reddit got in the way of that.
thanks
It's like reading a endless wall of text on old reddit. New reddit has so much more white space
oh ok thanks