Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world idunno101 @lemmy.ca 6 mo. ago

Being forced to download the Reddit app onto my phone to view any 'NSFW' post, even though I'm on my desktop

A friend sent me the link but I guess I'll have to tell him to send me screenshots in the future.

old.reddit still lets me view it. For now....

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Reddit has become full garbage.
- To be fair, its been shit for a real long time.
  
  We all just put up with it far longer than we should have.
  
  Yeah. From when I first joined reddit to until I left, I've never ever seen the video player actually fucking working. It's like a McDonalds ice cream machine, always broken.
  
  You got that right.
old.reddit will be killed off before the ipo in March

mark my words
- Spez explicitly promised they wouldn't get rid of old reddit.
  
  Which I took to mean they intend to ruin it by cramming all the shitty new features into it and taking away the things it does better.
  
  Edit: I don't trust spez lmao I just think what he said might be a hint for how they will fuck reddit up going forward
  
  lololol wouldn't be the first time by far he's broken an explicit promise
  
  spez also moderated /r/jailbait, a forum propogating child porn, until after it was banned. that greasy shit bag can't be trusted for anything he says
- I don't know, old.reddit feels like it probably serves some internal purposes, and it's a safe fallback for when they inevitably release buggy shit on the new site.
  
  old.reddit will probably be broken or maybe even restricted more and more as time goes by (it already has been) but I don't see them killing it entirely.
  
  Sounds likely that in the future, they will release changes that will break old and they will decide not to fix it.
  
  At the very least, they will remove NSFW content from it.
  
  I thought I read old reddit still has a lot of mod tools that haven't been brought over yet, seemed to be it's main purpose for continuing to exist.
- Old Reddit is the only place moderators have any 3rd party tools. When Reddit kills it, many more mods will quit. Large subs will be completely unmanageable
If you change the URL to old.reddit.com you can get past this BS and view the post anyway even without logging in. You just have to use the old version of the site which has a lot less of the stupid stuff they've added.
- There's also browser extensions like "old reddit redirect". They ensure you're always on the good version of reddit.
  
  Or Reddit Enhancement Suite
  
  For people on iOS there’s a shortcut that will redirect you. I think this is the one I used https://routinehub.co/shortcut/10086/
- This is the way.
It's a data harvesting company now.
This worked for me:

Start your own subreddit so you're a mod,

mark it nsfw,

don't need to post anything

and you should be able to access any nsfw in your feed when off-app.
- This also worked for me:
  
  I stopped using reddit, because it turned to shit.
  
  I don't get why people around here insist on this circlejerk.
  
  Yes, reddit is shit, it's been shit for years, we all know.
  
  But there's still plenty of good stuff to find there that has not migrated over here.
- They could also just login on desktop
  
  Wow I kinda assumed they'd done so, but looking at the screenshot you're right
  
  True, I don't use reddit on mobile at all anymore, since they killed 3rd party clients. No way in fuck would I install any social media company's program on my devices. It's open source apps for social media, or nothing.
  
  Old reddit works fine in Firefox on the desktop. I use that when I'm bored enough to.
Do you really want our pity for still being on that shitty platform?
- Pity, no. A shared expression of annoyance at a platform we all used to enjoy becoming further and further enshittified, yes.
  
  Nah. Life is to short to be annoyed by some shitty social media platform. Move on.
- Annoyingly there are still some good threads related to questions I've asked etc.
  
  🤷
Like Facebook making you get messenger. No thanks
- That was the start of my end of using Facebook for sure
  
  Same. Then in 2020 I did a full stop when I saw my mom post some unhinged conspiracy bullshit
  
  That was the moment I deleted Facebook from my phone. Deleted my account a short while later.
"let us track you to view this post"
Does old.reddit.com not resolve anymore?
- I just use load desktop site on Firefox mobile and it's fine.
- old.reddit.com works just fine. Logging in to view NSFW content is not required.
Holdin the bewbies hostage for your data...
- If only there were any other places on the internet where you could find boobs.
This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I've also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are "under review" or new.

I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.

I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev's official source for support).

I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between 'paragraphs' dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put ">" in with the jumbled up mess...
For the moment you can replace the 'www' in the page link to 'old' and reload. the old ui doesn't show these annoying warnings. You can also try some libreddit instance.
Probably just need to sign in. But if you don't have an account already, then it's shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.
- it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.
  
  They don't. I just made a new account there a month ago using my browser and old.reddit
I can highly recommend rdx for browsing reddit without an account
- The "I built a reddit porn browser" has gone to shit with the amount and type of integration of ads. Desktop is fine with ad blocking, mobile is cancer. I'm not linking it on purpose.
  
  On Android I'd recommend just installing Firefox along with uBlock Origin
  
  Adblocking on mobile works too...
Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They're like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.
- Libreddit is alive if you selfhost your own instance.
  
  Not always true anymore, my self-hosted instance died a few months back 😞
  
  Seems like reddit is blocking IPs known to be VPS'.
  
  Suppose I could spin it up on my home server, but I'd kinda rather just move on.
- Or use Rdx
Libreddit should fix this
- Until they finish to ban all the datacenter IPs. For example I can no longer access reddit from the IP address of my server (I self host my VPN)
lifeprotip: replace everything before "reddit" in the url with "old.", that will show you that post on old reddit, which doesnt require a login.
For mobile I finally ended up patching Sync, primarily for more comfortably browsing when it comes up in search results, but I did notice it enabled nsfw as well.
For lurking without the need for an account I use this https://feddit.de/post/7289677 app on android
- Same, I do this to lurk on specific game communities like armored core or pokemon romhacks
Login, you can't view it without an account.
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